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Colleagues, I checked in with OCLC's in-house NACO liaison about this. The bottom line is that LC prefers that all questions go directly to NACO@loc.gov. This ensures that <span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 15px; ">PCC staff (NACO is a a PCC program)
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<span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 15px; ">That said: </span><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 15px; ">VIAF is a reliable source for authority work, and NACO participants are encouraged to use it.</span><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 15px; "> You</span><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 15px; "> also
have the option of entering a person’s VIAF ID number into field 024 </span><a href="http://www.loc.gov/marc/authority/ad024.html" style="font-size: 15px; ">http://www.loc.gov/marc/authority/ad024.html</a><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 15px; "> of
authority records. You can see an example on ARN: 1815445.</span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 15px; ">She also mentioned that t</span><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 11pt; ">he handbook of examples that Karen Smith-Yoshimura cited is from the NACO-Music Project and therefore correct for
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; ">Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 14:52:19 -0400</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; ">Subject: Re: [DCRM-L] FW: MetaMan IG: Exciting News! VIAF Moving from</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; ">Harvesting English WIkipedia to Wikidata!</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; ">A "by the way" question: Is there a "best practices" out there somewhere</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; ">"authority" in itself? Boiling it all down to a 670 can be rather a</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; ">WIkipedia to Wikidata!</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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