1. VIAF Update Thomas Hickey Chief Scientist OCLC Research Singapore, 2013

2. New Institutions National Library of the Netherlands National Library of Norway Danish Library Center National Diet Library National Library Board, Singapore National Library of Latvia National Library of Poland IZUM (Institute of Information Science) (Slovenia) National and University Library in Zagreb (Croatia) National Library of Catalonia National Library of Luxembourg Lebanese National Library

3. Typical morning (40-60 users)

4. Statistics 29 -> 33 million authority records 112 -> 107 million bibliographic records 22 -> 24 million clusters ~5 million searches/week (8/second) But only 90,000 page views

5. Other changes Integration with OCLC services continues Better handling of undifferentiated records Matching improvements, esp. dates, corporate names Running on production servers Better monitoring 24x7 operator support Dual servers with failover Clustering improvements, especially ID stability Updated interfaces German, French, Japanese, Spanish N-Triples in bulk distribution Faster updates to database Added Hispánica (combined files from Spain)

6. Coming year ISNI as source file LC undifferentiated names More information from WorldCat – E.g. uniform titles from Multi-lingual bib project Imaginary characters More institutions

7. Future Real-time updates? Move to native triple store? More integration with WorldCat WorldCat Identities More title/coauthor/publisher information? VIAF IDs in records?