Library Cataloging
OCLC has made available the recordings of the VIAF Show and Tell Webinars.
- Viaf And Wikipedia
There is a proposal on Wikipedia's Village Pump to write a bot to integrate VIAF numbers into creator articles. Comments are being sought. There is a template {{Authority control}} which is in use on 4,000 pages to link to VIAF. We've determined...
- Viaf And Wikipedia
Over on Wikipedia there is talk of using VIAF more to provide authority control. This could lead to content generation in two directions: wikipages for authors etc. who do not yet have a wikipage, and (though I don't know anything about the institutional...
- Viaf Now Available
Thom Hickey has details about the Virtual International Authority File being publicly available on his Outgoing weblog.. The VIAF dataset is now available for public consumption! http://viaf.org/viaf/data describes and links to the files involved and...
- Virtual International Authority File
News from Fall of 2011 about OCLC's VIAF. Uniform Titles have been added to the Virtual International Authority File! Now VIAF covers: Personal names Corporate names Geographic names (only jurisdictional names so far) Uniform titlesOld news but still...
- Virtual International Authority File
News from OCLC.OCLC, the Bibliothéque nationale de France, the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek and the Library of Congress have signed a memorandum of understanding to extend and enhance the Virtual International Authority File (VIAF), a project which...
Library Cataloging
VAIF Webinars
OCLC has made available the recordings of the VIAF Show and Tell Webinars.
The Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) now comprises almost 20 million records from 24 different sources. In the last two months VIAF had over 70,000 visits from 147 countries/territories, with two-thirds "returning visitors." In addition, VIAF sees 6 million hits per month from automated systems such as Web harvesters or other programs retrieving VIAF information.
The "show and tell" VIAF demonstrations you'll see in this webinar recording include:
- Using VIAF as the primary reference for LC/NACO authority work to differentiate names?Spencer Anspach, Indiana University
- Using VIAF to create a record in Fihrist, a multi-institutional Islamic manuscript catalog, incorporating the URI to an author's VIAF page?Alasdair Watson, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
- How VIAF helps researchers?Magda El-Sherbini, Ohio State University
- Using VIAF to identify provenance of rare books and adding VIAF links to images of bookplates, inscriptions and other marks of ownership in Flickr?Regan Kladstrup, University of Pennsylvania
- Using VIAF to identify issues in the VIAF matching process and how to respond and report them?Stephen Hearn, University of Minnesota
- Viaf And Wikipedia
There is a proposal on Wikipedia's Village Pump to write a bot to integrate VIAF numbers into creator articles. Comments are being sought. There is a template {{Authority control}} which is in use on 4,000 pages to link to VIAF. We've determined...
- Viaf And Wikipedia
Over on Wikipedia there is talk of using VIAF more to provide authority control. This could lead to content generation in two directions: wikipages for authors etc. who do not yet have a wikipage, and (though I don't know anything about the institutional...
- Viaf Now Available
Thom Hickey has details about the Virtual International Authority File being publicly available on his Outgoing weblog.. The VIAF dataset is now available for public consumption! http://viaf.org/viaf/data describes and links to the files involved and...
- Virtual International Authority File
News from Fall of 2011 about OCLC's VIAF. Uniform Titles have been added to the Virtual International Authority File! Now VIAF covers: Personal names Corporate names Geographic names (only jurisdictional names so far) Uniform titlesOld news but still...
- Virtual International Authority File
News from OCLC.OCLC, the Bibliothéque nationale de France, the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek and the Library of Congress have signed a memorandum of understanding to extend and enhance the Virtual International Authority File (VIAF), a project which...