NACO versus ISAN: prospects for name authority control

Abstract

A traditional model of name authority control (the Name Authority Cooperative Program (NACO)) and the International Standard Author Number (ISAN), which was proposed in a previous article, are compared. This comparison is drawn in terms of the following criteria: input required during the standardisation of names; support for universal bibliographic control; promotion of collaboration between libraries and information services with regard to resource sharing and shared cataloguing; support for quality interaction between the user and information; saving of costs and time; and finally, the accommodation of future changes. Based on these results, the more effective method of the two is proposed for the standardisation of names.

Citation

Snyman, M.M.M. and Jansen van Rensburg, M. (2000), "NACO versus ISAN: prospects for name authority control", The Electronic Library, Vol. 18 No. 1, pp. 63-68. https://doi.org/10.1108/02640470010320470