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# Network Controlled Vocabularies Program Total current projects: 2 Problem statement: Cultural heritage, bibliographic and archival communities use different controlled vocabularies for the resources that they manage. These controlled vocabularies may not be recognized by very diverse user communities, and ignored by large commercial information hubs and Internet search engines. Metadata needs to flow among diverse environments and reach users wherever they are. The semantic, hierarchical, and granular relationships in controlled vocabularies are often lost when retrieved outside the environment in which they were created. Impact: Providing prototypes that demonstrate the value of aggregating or linking different types of controlled vocabularies can provide the basis for Web services that can be used in different discovery and metadata creation environments to uniquely identify people, organizations and things. ## Projects Prototype a Cooperative "Identities Hub" Prototype a "Publisher Name Server" Lead an Effort to Upgrade the LC/NACO Authority File with Non-Latin Alternate Names (Complete) Betatest WorldCat Identities (Complete) ### Working Groups Networking Names Advisory Group ### Related Projects Explore RLG Programs Partner Interests in Terminologies Services Enhance Disclosure at the Network Level Requirements for Persistent Identifiers Influence the Proposed Encoded Archival Context Standard WorldCat Identities Virtual International Authority File