Proceedings of the international conference "Authority control: definition and international experiences" held in Florence, Italy, February 10-12, 2003.

"Co-published simultaneously as Cataloging & classification quarterly, volume 38, numbers 3/4 2004 and volume 39, numbers 1/2 2004."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Authority control in the context of bibliographic control in the electronic environment / Michael Gorman -- Authority control : state of the art and new perspectives / Barbara B. Tillett -- Teaching authority control / Arlene G. Taylor -- Guidelines and methodology for the creation of the SBN authority file / Cristina Magliano -- The Bibliografia nazionale italiana and control of access points / Gloria Cerbai Ammannati -- IFLA and authority control / Marie-France Plassard -- FRANAR : a conceptual model for authority data / Glenn E. Patton -- Authority control in the world of metadata / José Borbinha -- Bibliographic control and authority control from Paris principles to the present / Pino Buizza -- The other half of cataloguing : new models and perspectives for the control of authors and works / Alberto Petrucciani -- Fear of authority? : authority control and thesaurus building for art and material culture information / Murtha Baca --

UNIMARC format for authority records : its scope and issues for authority control / Mirna Willer -- Authority control of creators and the second edition of ISAAR(CPF), International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons, and Families / Stefano Vitali -- Creator description : encoded archival context / Daniel V. Pitti -- LEAF : Linking and Exploring Authority Files / Jutta Weber -- NACO : a cooperative model for building and maintaining a shared name authority database / John D. Byrum, Jr. -- Names of the Far East : Japanese, Chinese, and Korean authority control / Eisuke Naito -- Authority control of printers, publishers, and booksellers / Lorenzo Baldacchini -- Creating up-to-date corporate name authority records by using official corporate home web pages / Qiang Jin -- Authority control of works : cataloging's chimera? / Richard P. Smiraglia -- SACO and subject gateways / Ana L. Cristán -- MACS (multilingual access to subjects) : a virtual authority file across languages / Genevieve Clavel-Merrin -- FAST : development of simplified headings for metadata / Rebecca J. Dean -- Semantic authority control and the new Soggettario / Anna Lucarelli -- Authority control and subject indexing languages / Stefano Tartaglia -- Subject indexing in the Servizio bibliotecario nazionale / Maria Lucia Di Geso --

The activities for authority control in EDIT16 : authors, publishers/printers, devices, and places / Claudia Leoncini, Rosaria Maria Servello -- Authority control in the field of music : names and titles / Massimo Gentili-Tedeschi, Federica Riva -- The CERL thesaurus file / Claudia Fabian -- The German name authority file (PND) in the Bavarian union catalogue : principles, experiences, and costs / Gabriele Messmer -- Project InterParty : from library authority files to e-commerce / Andrew MacEwan -- Commercial services for providing authority control : outsourcing the process / Sherry L. Vellucci -- Multiple names / Lucia Sardo -- Chinese name authority control in Asia : an overview / Lily Hu, Owen Tam, Patrick Lo -- Progetto Lombardo Archivi in INternet-PLAIN : identification, retrieval, and display of creators of archives and of archival fonds / Maurizio Savoja, Paul Gabriele Weston -- Modeling authority data for libraries, archives, and museums : a project in progress at AFNOR / Françoise Bourdon -- A first contribution in the field of religion : the ACOLIT Project / Fausto Ruggeri -- French Official Corporate Bodies of the Ancient Regime (COPAR) and Religious Corporate Bodies (CORELI) : two operations in creating authority records in order to standardise the entries of bibliographic records in Bibliothèque nationale de France retrospective conversion / Nadine Boddaert --

The project "Authority File" for names relating to Perugia and its area / Claudia Parmeggiani -- The catalogue as language, quality in terms of service : an experience at the University of Florence / Luciana Sabini -- Authority control in the academic context : a Hobson's choice / Guido Badalamenti -- Ancient Italian states : an authority list project / Annarita Sansò -- The authority file of the Biblioteca di cultura medievale / Maria Teresa Donati -- The compilation of an authority list of medieval Latin authors : objectives, methodological issues, and results / Roberto Gamberini -- Congedo / Luigi Crocetti -- OCLC's MARS and Innovative's Millennium : authority control procedures / Lihong Zhu.