Library Cataloging
Over on Wikipedia there is talk of using VIAF more to provide authority control.
- 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...
- 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,...
- 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...
- Aacr3
A new paper on AARC3, Authority control in AACR3 by Deirdre Kiorgaard and Ann Huthwaite.Authority control is a vital component of any catalogue. Although AACR2 does provide guidance on choosing access points for bibliographic records and on formulating...
Library Cataloging
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 process by which these are generated) name authority records for individuals who at present do not have them.
- 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...
- 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,...
- 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...
- Aacr3
A new paper on AARC3, Authority control in AACR3 by Deirdre Kiorgaard and Ann Huthwaite.Authority control is a vital component of any catalogue. Although AACR2 does provide guidance on choosing access points for bibliographic records and on formulating...