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Potential areas for future work
The forum suggested a number of directions for future work which are summarized below. Some of them will be investigated during the course of the IMLS project, while others may be taken up in other venues as appropriate.
Project outputs
Draft of white paper that will serve as a public discussion document, and outlining key issues and recommendations for joint action
Survey relevant communities on local authority creation
Compile actual or model workflows. Identify stakeholders and roles, including service providers
Share information on how Harvard is resolving issues with their local authorities, and model an identity management workflow
ISNI workflows and use cases (see Gatenby and MacEwan slides)
Workflows from BIBFLOW project
Identify patterns for sharing data
Further analysis of roles of stakeholders, e.g. publishers, service providers, libraries, academic institutions, scholars
Outline of how ISNI and VIAF relate to local authority needs
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- Explore opportunities to work with publishers to acquire IDs with their data
Bring issues concerning identities to the FOLIO project’s UX team; encourage collaboration with community partners
Document Seek use cases and requirements for reconciliation as a service (already initiated by Peter Murray in FOLIO forum)
Propose ways to share information on matching algorithms
Sustainability is a consideration
Utah IMLS-funded regional authority control project
Consider how such a service may or may not interact with a larger hub such as ISNI.
Initiate discussion on lowering the barriers to NACO participation
Ways of sharing “how to” information
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