VIAF (Virtual International Authority File)

Description

VIAF (Virtual International Authority File) is an OCLC service -- built in cooperation with national libraries and other partners -- that virtually combines multiple LAM (Library Archives Museum) name authority files into a single name authority service. Available for download: "a text file showing the correspondence between source IDs in clusters, including external links such as Wikipedia"; file with "one 'native' XML record per line for each VIAF cluster"; file with "one RDF record per line for each VIAF cluster"; file with "one RDF Triple per line"; file with "one MARC-21 XML record per line for each VIAF cluster"; file with "one ISO-2709 MARC-21 record per line for each VIAF cluster"; and file showing "redirections within the VIAF dataset (in RDF)".

Resource Fields

Resource Type:

dataset

Submitted By:

Matt Lavin

Date Submitted:

2016-12-16 14:37:09

Access URL:

http://viaf.org/viaf/data/

Tags

authority-files download libraries museums proper-name-disambiguation

Project Open Data Required Fields (version 1.1)

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Publisher

OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.

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public

Project Open Data Additional Fields (version 1.0)

Contact email

bibchange@oclc.org

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Format

xml, rdf, txt, gz

Project Open Data Required-if-Applicable Fields (version 1.1)

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Rights

See http://viaf.org/viaf/data/#norms

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