SNAP and VIAF

We’ve had a couple of meetings with Karen Smith-Yoshimura and Thomas Hickey, of the Scholars Contributions to VIAF group, to discuss possible collaborations, exchange of information, and mutual benefits of sharing standards between the SNAP:DRGN project and VIAF (the Virtual International Authority File, a federated authority list of persons from library catalogs, mostly from author or subject fields).

We considered two main questions: Continue reading SNAP and VIAF

Minutes of first Advisory Board meeting

SNAP:DRGN Advisory Board

1st meeting Skype (voice only) 2014-05-09

Present: Øyvind Eide (chair), Fabian Koerner, Robert Parker, Laurie Pearce, Charlotte Roueché, Rainer Simon, Gabriel Bodard (principal investigator)

Not present: Sonia Ranade.

The meeting lasted around one hour.

Minutes written by Øyvind Eide based on notes from Laurie Pearce and Rainer Simon. Continue reading Minutes of first Advisory Board meeting