Virtual International Authority File
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For use of VIAF with Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Authority control.
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| Acronym | VIAF |
|---|---|
| Managing organisation | Online Computer Library Center |
| Example | https://viaf.org/viaf/70042340 |
| Website | viaf |
The Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) is an international authority file. It is a joint project of several national libraries and operated by the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC).[1][2] The project was initiated by the German National Library and the US Library of Congress.
The aim is to link the national authority files (such as the German Name Authority File) to a single virtual authority file. In this file, identical records from the different data sets are linked together. A VIAF record receives a standard data number, contains the primary "see" and "see also" records from the original records, and refers to the original authority records. The data are made available online and are available for research and data exchange and sharing. Reciprocal updating uses the Open Archives Initiative protocol.
The file numbers are also being added to Wikipedia biographical articles[3] and are incorporated into Wikidata.
Contents
Participating libraries and organizations[edit]
| English-language name | Native-language name (if non-English) | Location | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bibnet: Flemish Public Libraries (VLACC: Flemish Central Catalogue) | VLACC: Vlaamse Centrale Catalogus | Brussels | Belgium |
| BIBSYS: National Library of Norway | BIBSYS: Nasjonalbiblioteket | Trondheim | Norway |
| British Library | - | London | England |
| Central Institute for the Union Catalogue of Italian Libraries and Bibliographic Information | Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico | Rome | Italy |
| Danish Bibliographic Centre (DBC) | Ballerup | Denmark | |
| Danish Agency for Culture | |||
| Flemish Public Libraries | |||
| German National Library | Deutsche Nationalbibliothek | Frankfurt | Germany |
| Getty Research Institute (Union List of Artist Names) | – | Los Angeles, California | United States |
| Israel Museum | Muze'on Yisrael | Jerusalem | Israel |
| Lebanese National Library | المكتبة الوطنية | Beirut | Lebanon |
| Library and Archives Canada | Bibliothèque et Archives Canada | Ottawa, Ontario | Canada |
| Library of Alexandria | Bibliotheca Alexandrina | Alexandria | Egypt |
| Library of Congress (NACO consortium) | – | Washington, D.C. | United States |
| National Diet Library | 国立国会図書館 | Tokyo and Kyoto | Japan |
| National Agricultural Library | - | Beltsville, Maryland | United States |
| National and University Library in Zagreb | Nacionalna i sveučilišna knjižnica u Zagrebu | Zagreb | Croatia |
| National Library of Australia | – | Canberra | Australia |
| National Library of Catalonia | Biblioteca de Catalunya | Barcelona | Spain |
| National Library of France | Bibliothèque nationale de France | Paris | France |
| National Library of Israel | הספרייה הלאומית | Jerusalem | Israel |
| National Library of Latvia | Latvijas Nacionālā bibliotēka | Rīga | Latvia |
| National Library of Medicine | - | Bethesda, Maryland | United States |
| National Library of Mexico | Biblioteca Nacional de México | Mexico City | Mexico |
| National Library of New Zealand | - | Wellington | New Zealand |
| National Library of Norway | Nasjonalbiblioteket | Oslo | Norway |
| National Library of Poland | Biblioteka Narodowa | Warsaw | Poland |
| National Library of Portugal | Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal | Lisbon | Portugal |
| National Library of Scotland | - | Edinburgh | Scotland |
| National Library of South Africa | Staats-Bibliotheek der Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek | Cape Town and Pretoria | South Africa |
| National Library of Spain | Biblioteca Nacional de España | Madrid | Spain |
| National Library of Sweden | Kungliga Biblioteket | Stockholm | Sweden |
| National Library of Wales | Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru | Aberystwyth | Wales |
| National Library of the Czech Republic | Národní knihovna České republiky | Prague | Czech Republic |
| National Széchényi Library | Országos Széchényi Könyvtár | Budapest | Hungary |
| Perseus Project | - | Medford, Massachusetts | United States |
| RERO Library Network of Western Switzerland | Réseau des bibliothèques de Suisse occidentale, Rete delle bibliotheche della Svizzera occidentale or Westschweizer Bibliothekverbund | Martigny | Switzerland |
| SUDOC (French library consortium) | Système universitaire de documentation | – | France |
| Syriac Reference Portal | |||
| Swiss National Library | Schweizerische Nationalbibliothek, Bibliothèque nationale suisse, Biblioteca nazionale svizzera, | Berne | Switzerland |
| NUKAT: Union Catalogue of Polish Research Libraries | NUKAT: katalog zbiorów polskich bibliotek naukowych | – | Poland |
| Vatican Library | Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana | – | Vatican City |
| Wikidata | - | - | - |
Libraries added for testing purposes[edit]
| English-language name | Native-language name (if non-English) | Location | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| ISNI | – | London | United Kingdom |
| National Library Board Singapore | – | – | Singapore |
| National Library of the Netherlands | Koninklijke Bibliotheek | The Hague | The Netherlands |
| Russian State Library | Российская государственная библиотека | Moscow | Russia |
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Kelley, Michael; Schwartz, Meredith (2012). "VIAF service transitions to OCLC". Library Journal (Media Source) 137 (8): 16.
- ^ VIAF, OCLC.
- ^ VIAFbot Edits 250,000 Wikipedia Articles to Reciprocate All Links from VIAF into Wikipedia, OCLC, 2012-12-07
External links[edit]
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Wikidata has a property, P214, for VIAF (see uses) |
