[DCRM-L] FW: MetaMan IG: Exciting News! VIAF Moving from Harvesting English WIkipedia to Wikidata!

[Noble, Richard]

A "by the way" question: Is there a "best practices" out there somewhere
for citing VIAF in authority records, and especially for dealing with its
record of all records aspect? Should individual national-level records be
cited independently, citing VIAF as more of an access point than an
"authority" in itself? Boiling it all down to a 670 can be rather a
challenge ...

Thanks - Richard Noble

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On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 2:03 PM, Schneider, Nina <nschneider at humnet.ucla.edu
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> *From:* Riemer, John
> *Sent:* Thursday, March 26, 2015 10:55 AM
> *To:* All Library Staff
> *Subject:* FW: MetaMan IG: Exciting News! VIAF Moving from Harvesting
> English WIkipedia to Wikidata!
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> For those interested in linked data, this is a major new development in
> connecting identities to many international forms of name.
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>    John
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> *From:* Smith-Yoshimura,Karen [mailto:smithyok at oclc.org
> <smithyok at oclc.org>]
> *Sent:* Thursday, March 26, 2015 8:13 AM
> *Subject:* MetaMan IG: Exciting News! VIAF Moving from Harvesting English
> WIkipedia to Wikidata!
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> Dear OCLC Research Library Partners Metadata Management Interest Group –
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> We’ve had links between VIAF and the English Wikipedia for some time. But
> now we’ll be harvesting personal and organizational names from Wikidata,
> which in turn links to all Wikipedia’s in different languages! My colleague
> Thom Hickey has blogged about this in his Outgoing blog, Moving to
> Wikidata
> <http://outgoing.typepad.com/outgoing/2015/03/moving-to-wikidata.html>.
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> Besides the additional names that are being harvested, I am really excited
> about now harvesting names in their non-Latin script forms that are
> available in WorldCat, authority files and VIAF only in romanized form.  Using
> Thom’s Jane Austen example in his blog post, we could present her name in
> Bengali, Chuvash, Georgian, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Mongolian,
> Nepali, Panjabi, Pashto, Serbian, Tamil, Tajik, Tatar, Thai, and Urdu
> scripts – most of which are represented only by romanizations in WorldCat
> and our current authority files, if at all. That’s potentially really cool.
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> Thom notes that the new data will appear in VIAF in mid to late April but
> we can see the changes now in http://test.viaf.org. There I can see the
> Gujarati form of Gandhi’s name, as harvested from Wikidata:
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> If you look at the “about” section of the record, you can see an
> impressive list of the Wikipedia pages in lots of different languages for
> Gandhi.
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> Hope you enjoy looking at this new source of data as much as I do!
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> Cheers,
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> Karen
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