The InterParty project is funded under the European Commission's Information Society Technologies Programme (IST), to design and specify a network to support interoperability of party identification (for both natural and corporate names) across different domains. InterParty builds on the work of the <indecs> project, one of whose deliverables was a specification for a Directory of Parties. InterParty is not proposed as a replacement for existing schemes for the identification of participants in the intellectual property domain (e.g. national library name authority files or systems oriented towards the needs of rights licensing) but as a means of effecting their interoperation. |
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Collecting societies, performer databases, national libraries, bibliographic agencies all have the need to disambiguate between different parties who share the same name and to be aware of the same party using different names. These may be authors, composers, performers, producers, directors, publishers, imprints, record labels, libraries, academic institutions etc.
Not only is this task difficult, time-consuming and costly, it is often repeated by other organisations attempting to identify the same parties for different purposes.
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Building on the work of the project, InterParty will design, specify and develop the blueprint for a network that will provide participating agencies with a means of online, on-demand, checking of identities - a virtual Directory of Parties - and will enable party identifiers to be mapped automatically between domains.
More detailed information is available in the Powerpoint presentations from the InterParty Open Workshop.
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