@inproceedings{kurki-hyvonen-onki-people-2009,
  OPTkey = 	 {},
  author = 	 {Jussi Kurki and Eero Hyvönen},
  title = 	 {Authority Control of People and Organizations on the Semantic Web},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conferences on Digital Libraries and the Semantic Web 2009 (ICSD2009) (forthcoming)},
  OPThowpublished = {},
  month = 	 {September},
  year = 	 {2009},
  note = {Trento, Italy},
  location = {},
  abstract = {Authors and documents with identical titles are common in
the digital library environment. In order to manage identities correctly,
authority control is used by library and information scientists for disam-
biguating and cross-referencing entity names. We argue that the benefits
of traditional authority control can be enhanced by using techniques
and technologies of the Semantic Web, leading to simpler management
of multiple languages, better linkability of resources, simpler reuse of au-
thority registries in applications, and less work in indexing. To demon-
strate our propositions, we have created a prototype of an ontology server
and service called ONKI People that is used in two ways: First, it is
a centralized authority service providing human end-users with efficient
and easy to use authority finding and disambiguation services based on
faceted semantic search and visualizations. The services are available on-
line also as AJAX and Web Services API for machines to use. Second,
the underlying RDF triple store can be used as a content resource in ap-
plications such as semantic cultural heritage portals. The paper discusses
and demonstrates both use cases in a real life setting.},
  OPTannote = 	 {},
  OPTproject = {http://www.seco.tkk.fi/projects/sw20, http://www.seco.tkk.fi/projects/finnonto, http://www.seco.tkk.fi/ontologies/toimo/}
}