The paper describes the first steps in the introduction of the authority control for personal and corporate names, and editing of the CONOR, V5.1 authority database. It also gives an account on activities related to the preparation of the COBISS General List of Subject Headings.
Within the framework of the Ministry of Science and Technology the Branch Information Centres for biomedicine, biotechniques, social sciences, humanities, natural sciences and engineering have taken on a task to prepare a general unified list of subject headings for the COBISS system.
The article presents downloading of bibliographic records from foreign databases to the COBISS system, serials from the ISSN database and monographs from WorldCat.
This paper describes initial phases of the project on implementing authority control in the COBISS system: analysis of names and subject headings in the COBIB union database, generation of the CONOR prototype database and preparation of the working draft of COMARC/A, Format for Athority Data.
Automated systems for copy cataloguiging are aimed to reduce work, time, and the price of records.
