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The Virtual International Authority File ( VIAF) is a virtual international standard file for personal names. It is a joint project of several national libraries and library networks.

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Basic information

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(P34)?Naming:	Virtual International Authority File
(P1266)?Abbreviation:	—
(P724)?Digest:	The aim of VIAF is to link national authority files to an internationally shared authority file in a service hosted by OCLC. Many countries around the world participate in the VIAF with different standards data sets. Different entities, including traditional library entities such as names and surnames, corporate bodies, geographies, works, expressions and titles, are linked together via a shared Linked Open Data service.
(P887)?URL:	https://viaf.org/de
(P121)?Genre classification:	Authority file
(P15)?Medientyp:	Online resource
(P608)?Field of knowledge:	Geography, Organisation, Prosopography
(P936)?Object types:	Expression, Form of address, corporation, historical geography, work, person
(P984)?Object type properties:	Name, Title, Toponym, topical term, work

Number of integrated items

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(P613)?Number of integrated items:	—

Contact

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(P845)?Creator:	OCLC | WorldCat
(P518)?Technically realized by:	OCLC | WorldCat
(P206)?Publisher:	OCLC | WorldCat
(P153)?Postal address:	Kilgour Place 6565 | 43017 Dublin, Ohio | USA
(P722)?Email address:	—

Methodology

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(P280)?Variant:	Connection to authority control data, Data curation, Entity recognition, Identification and matching, Standardization, Translation
(P575)?Design features:	Standardized vocabulary with rules that can only be changed by an authorized committee
(P902)?Methodology:	Based on current technical terms (Applies (overall)), Technical terms have a date (Applies to the majority), The technical terms are referenced (Applies (overall)), The technical terms have georeferencing (Applies to the majority)
(P15)?Media type:	Online resource
(P1000)?Organisational structure:	Changes can only be made by trained staff
(P999)?Sustainability:	The project is long-term, permanently supported by an organization
(P942)?Number of hierarchy levels:	—
(P900)?Completeness:	Open for growth, completeness cannot be achieved

Version

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(P18)?Language:	English, French, German, Spanish
(P1152)?Date of first publication:	2012
(P222)?Date of publication:	—
(P939)?Versioning:	No versioning

Cross concordances

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(P898)?External matching:	GND | Integrated Authority File - Grad: Applies to the majority - Prozent: 100% - Sprache: German, GND | Integrated Authority File - Grad: partly - Prozent: 100% - Sprache: German, Library of Congress Subject Headings - Grad: Complete - Prozent: 100% - Sprache: English, Library of Congress Subject Headings - Grad: partly - Prozent: 100% - Sprache: English, National Library of Norway - Grad: Complete - Prozent: 100% - Sprache: Norwegian, National Library of Norway - Grad: partly - Prozent: 100% - Sprache: Norwegian, Paris: Bibliothèque National de France - Grad: Complete - Prozent: 100% - Sprache: French, Paris: Bibliothèque National de France - Grad: partly - Prozent: 100% - Sprache: French
(P573)?Target group:	Library

Documentation

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(P382)?Specifications:	—
(P978)?External tutorial:	—
(P180)?License:	Open Data Commons Attribution License

Provision of data

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(P940)?Technology:	RDF | Resource Description Framework
(P125)?Status of possesio:	Complete download possible
(P15)?Media type:	Online resource
(P937)?Referencing method:	Persistent identifier(s)
(P903)?Data format:	MARC 21, RDF | Resource Description Framework, XML
(P923)?API endpoint URL:	https://www.oclc.org/developer/api/oclc-apis/viaf/authority-cluster.en.html
(P941)?SPARQL endpoint URL:	—
(P995)?Services offered:	—
(P950)?Cite as:	OCLC, VIAFDublin (USA), https://viaf.org/de

Dataset editing

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(P1302)?Dataset editing:	Marius Wegener