Library Cataloging
There is a proposal on Wikipedia's Village Pump to write a bot to integrate VIAF numbers into creator articles. Comments are being sought.
- 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 Now Linked Data
Some interesting news about the VIAF.As promised in an earlier post, VIAF (the Virtual International Authority File) is now available as linked data. For those not familiar with VIAF, it is a merger of nearly 20 national-level name authority files (currently...
- Mark's Toolkit For Libraries
Here is a tool for MARC that is being updated and is getting a new name, but the initials will stay the same, MTL.The MARC Template Library is currently is the process of being renamed (to Mark's Toolkit for Libraries) and completely rewritten. Expect...
Library Cataloging
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 ~260,000 more where the template would be useful with the corresponding VIAF number. This project and template serve the educational goal of linking more information about Creators. VIAF contains information that is not currently on the encyclopedia but would be useful if a reader wanted to learn more about their publishing history and preferred name forms etc. Are there any objections before we undertake the effort to write a bot add this template?
- 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 Now Linked Data
Some interesting news about the VIAF.As promised in an earlier post, VIAF (the Virtual International Authority File) is now available as linked data. For those not familiar with VIAF, it is a merger of nearly 20 national-level name authority files (currently...
- Mark's Toolkit For Libraries
Here is a tool for MARC that is being updated and is getting a new name, but the initials will stay the same, MTL.The MARC Template Library is currently is the process of being renamed (to Mark's Toolkit for Libraries) and completely rewritten. Expect...