Introduzione al convegno Versione italiana presentata alla Conferenza internazionale = Introduction to the Conference English version presented at the International Conference

摘要

The International Conference "Authority control" intends to offer an occasion for rethinking and comparing experiences about a critical aspect of the cataloguing process, and to confirm the attention paid by Italian professionals to the issues most frequently debated at the international level. Effective cataloguing requires controlling the consistency of the form of access points to information so that users can find, identify, select and obtain the information available in a bibliography or catalogue –as stressed by FRBR. Authority control is the process that should ensure homogeneity of form in each voice – author, title, body, or descriptor – chosen as access point; a process that integrates the architecture of the catalogue, not to be separated from its conceptual foundations.