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"Authority control is a system of procedures that ensures the consistent use and maintenance of information...to ensure consistency at the cataloging level, and that the user searching a database can find material and relate it to other material in the database efficiently." (Baca, et al., 2006)

Proposed accompanying Authority Records for Name and Geographic Place

Personal and Corporate Name Authority Record

â–  Identifier: contraName:0000002

â–  *Names:

Rotenberg, Tanya (preferred, inverted)

Tanya Rotenberg (preferred, natural order)

â–  *Display Biography:

American contra dance caller, musician, and choreographer

â–  *Nationalities [controlled]:

American [AAT 300107956]

â–  *Birth Date [controlled]: 1969; Death Date [controlled]: 2089

â–  *Life Roles [controlled]:

dance caller [LC AFSET 004761]

musician [AAT 300025666]

flutist [AAT 300235053]

choreographer [AAT 300025649]

â–  Gender [controlled]: female

â–  Place of Birth [link]: Philadelphia (Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, United States) [TGN 7014406]

â–  Places and Dates of Activity [link]:

Philadelphia (Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, United States) [TGN 7014406] | Date: 1980-2089

â–  Related People:

Relationship Type [controlled]: child of

[link to related person]: Rotenberg, Sandy

Relationship Type [controlled]: child of

[link to related person]: Rotenberg, Sam

â–  Related Corporate Bodies:

Relationship Type [controlled]: member of

[link to corporate body]: Germantown Country Dancers

Relationship Type [controlled]: member of

[link to corporate body]: Renegade Morris

Relationship Type [controlled]: member of

[link to corporate body]: Windsor Knot

Relationship Type [controlled]: member of

[link to corporate body]: TLC with Jo Anne Rocke

â–  Note: Tanya Rotenberg is a Philadelphia-area contra dance and English country dance caller, dancer, musician, and choreographer.  She has been involved in English and early American folk dance since childhood, and is currently active with the Germantown Country Dancers.  She is best known in contra dance repertoires for the contemporary contra dance “Delphiniums and Daisies,” which she composed in honor of her parents’ 25th wedding anniversary.

â–  *Sources [links to Source Records]:

New England Folk Festival Association (2018).

Geek Adjacent (2015).

DanceDB: The Dance Database (2017).

Dance a while: A handbook for folk, square, contra, and social dance (2002-2015).

Geographic Place Authority Record

â–  Identifier: contraPlace:0000003

â–  TGN ID: 7014406 [http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014406]

â–  *Names:

Philadelphia (preferred)

City of Brotherly Love (variant)

â–  Broader Context Display: Pennsylvania, United States

â–  *Hierarchical position [link]:

North and Central America (continent)

........ United States (nation)

............ Pennsylvania (state)

.................... Philadelphia (county)

........................... Philadelphia (inhabited place)

â–  *Place Type [controlled]:

inhabited place

city

county seat

port

cultural center

political center

â–  Coordinates [controlled]:

Lat: 39 57 00 N degrees minutes

Long: 075 09 00 W degrees minutes

(Lat: 39.9500 decimal degrees)

(Long: -75.1500 decimal degrees)

â–  Note: Located at confluence of Delaware and Schuylkill rivers; Quaker town was founded by W Penn; was thriving colonial center & active in American Revolution; later lost political and financial prestige to Washington & New York; was a strong anti-slavery power.

â–  *Sources [link to Source Records]:

Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (1988-).

National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-).

Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984).

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