Virtual International Authority File – introduction & implications Basil Dewhurst Project Manager, ARDC Party Infrastructure Project | National Library of Australia
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. 2
Authority files Local National International 3
VIAF name matching Identifiers Names and dates Related bibliographic resources 4
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Other ways of searching Via Search/Retrieve via URL (SRU) at (Records available in VIAF format) Other record formats RDF ( MARC21 ( UNIMARC ( VIAF ( 18
VIAF Opportunities Implementation in other databases / portals Permanent URIs Semantic Web 19
People Australia program Overview Records available via Trove ( Contributors Record format Machine-to-machine interfaces 20
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VIAF and the People Australia program/Trove The record for The logic of scientific discovery / Karl R. Popper ( provides “Popper, Karl Raimund Sir, ” as the author. Clicking on this link provides search results for works he has created. 22
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Virtual International Authority File – introduction & implications Basil Dewhurst Project Manager, ARDC Party Infrastructure Project | National Library of Australia