MusicNet is pleased to announce a workshop on Music Linked Data, to be held on 12 May 2011, 10:30-16:00. The event will take place at the JISC London meeting rooms (Brettenham House (South Entrance), 5 Lancaster Place, London WC2E 7EN).
The Entity Authority Tool Set (EATS) is a web application for recording, editing, using and displaying authority information about entities. It is designed to allow multiple authorities to each maintain their own independent data, while operating on a common base so that information about the same entity is all in one place.
EATS also comes with client tools for automatically looking up entities in a text by name and adding appropriate TEI markup.
Features:
* A web API for importing and exporting entity data
* Robust searching with support for variant name forms
* Support for exporting entity data in a variety of formats
A&H use case 1 description:
The Gascon Rolls Project uses EATS to record entity information and aid
markup of the TEI XML as part of automatically creating indices of
people and places.
There are no direct alternatives, but Virtual International Authority File (http://viaf.org/) matches and links authority files across national libraries.
