Virtual International Authority File – introduction & implications Basil Dewhurst Project...

Virtual International Authority File – introduction & implicationsBasil DewhurstProject Manager, ARDC Party Infrastructure Project | National Library of Australiabdewhurs@nla.gov.au

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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VIAF (http://viaf.org/)

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Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727 (http://viaf.org/viaf/22146457)

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Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727 (http://viaf.org/viaf/22146457)

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Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727 (http://viaf.org/viaf/22146457)

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Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727 (http://viaf.org/viaf/22146457)

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Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727 (http://viaf.org/viaf/22146457)

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Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727 (http://viaf.org/viaf/22146457)

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Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727 (http://viaf.org/viaf/22146457)

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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 Australiabdewhurs@nla.gov.au