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Virtual International Authority File – introduction & implicationsBasil DewhurstProject Manager, ARDC Party Infrastructure Project | National Library of [email protected]
VIAF introduction
• A multinational collaboration: joint project between OCLC, the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Library of Congress and contributing National Libraries
• Goal: to virtually combine the name authority files from institutions across the globe into a single name authority service.
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Authority files
• Local
• National
• International
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VIAF name matching
• Identifiers
• Names and dates
• Related bibliographic resources
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Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727 (http://viaf.org/viaf/22146457)
Other ways of searching
• Via Search/Retrieve via URL (SRU) at http://viaf.org/search (Records available in VIAF format)
• Other record formatsRDF (http://viaf.org/viaf/32063971.rdf)
MARC21 (http://viaf.org/viaf/32063971.m21)
UNIMARC (http://viaf.org/viaf/32063971.unimarc)
VIAF (http://viaf.org/viaf/32063971.viaf)
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VIAF Opportunities
• Implementation in other databases / portals
• Permanent URIs
• Semantic Web
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People Australia program
• Overview
• Records available via Trove (http://trove.nla.gov.au/people)
• Contributors
• Record format
• Machine-to-machine interfaces
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VIAF and the People Australia program/Trove
• The record for The logic of scientific discovery / Karl R. Popper (http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/8936549) provides “Popper, Karl Raimund Sir, 1902-1994” as the author. Clicking on this link provides search results for works he has created.
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VIAF and the People Australia program/Trove
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VIAF and the People Australia program/Trove
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Virtual International Authority File – introduction & implicationsBasil DewhurstProject Manager, ARDC Party Infrastructure Project | National Library of [email protected]