Extending the multilingual capacity of The European Library in the EDL project
Stockholm, Swedish National Library, 22-23 November 2007

Authority Files and Web 2.0: Wikipedia and the PND - An Example / Patrick Danowski, StBB

More and more users index everything on their own in the web 2.0. There are services for links, videos, pictures, books, encyclopaedic articles and scientific articles. All these services are library independent. But must that really be? Can‘t libraries help with their experience and tools to make user indexing better?

On the experience of a project from German language Wikipedia together with the German person authority files (Personen Namen Datei - PND) located at German National Library (Deutsche Nationalbibliothek) I would like to show what is possible. How users can and will use the authority files, if we let them. We will take a look how the project worked and what we can learn for future projects .