Interesting topic  ----  

While attempting to wrap our brains around how to synchronize our constituent entries and workflow with the very large National Archives Name/Organization authority (basically the OCLC name authority with millions of additional entries and growing daily) -- at least for what we term 'Notable Constituents' -- the Presidential Libraries Museums are also considering synchronizing TMS data with SNAC (depending on where the agency as a whole decides to go). See

http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/ 

The National Archives is a core member of the SNAC cooperative -- in early stages of development, but active and available for authority work and highly promising for cross-discipline audiences.  

Other than for ULAN data, is anyone attempting to synchronize constituent data elements such as Display or Sort names, biographies, or other data with authoritative data from other sources?  If so, what data elements and from what sources?


Kimberly Koons, Presidential Libraries Museum Collections Officer
National Archives & Records Administration
700 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington, D.C.    20408
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