The major authority record exchange partners (British Library, Library and Archives Canada, Library of Congress, National Library of Medicine, and OCLC) have developed a plan to allow the addition of non-Latin script data (also known as nonroman script data) to name authority records distributed as part of the NACO program.

The addition of non-Latin script data is scheduled to begin on July 13, 2008

 

Karen S-Y blogs about the OCLC project to add non-roman cross references to authority records, based on data-mining of bibliographic records and the WorlCat Identities project

"As previously announced, the Library of Congress and its major authority record exchange partners (British Library, Library and Archives Canada, National Library of Medicine, OCLC, Inc.) have agreed to a basic outline that will allow for the addition of non-Latin script references on name authority records distributed as part of the NACO program (no earlier than April 2008). Additional details about this project are contained in a White Paper drafted to frame many of the issues related to future policies for cataloger-added references to authority records that will follow an automatic pre-population of the authority records from relevant bibliographic data."