[DCRM-L] Citing VIAF

Thu Mar 26 13:46:45 MDT 2015

This is how we do it at the Folger (from http://folgerpedia.folger.edu/MARC_670_Source_Data_Found):

670  DNB in VIAF, viewed 13 December 2014 ǂb (authorized access point: Grünhut, Gavro, 1849-1906; occupations: Verleger, Publizist) 

Deborah J. Leslie | Folger Shakespeare Library | djleslie at folger.edu | 202.675-0369 | 201 East Capitol St., SE, Washington, DC 20003 | www. folger.edu

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Hi Richard, the NACO Music Project has some good, sensible guidelines:
http://www.musicoclcusers.org/NMP/nmphdbk.htm#viaf
I'm on the digest, so hope that I haven't repeated what others have sent, Andrea
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   1. Re: FW: MetaMan IG: Exciting News! VIAF Moving from
      Harvesting English WIkipedia to Wikidata! (Noble, Richard)

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Subject: Re: [DCRM-L] FW: MetaMan IG: Exciting News! VIAF Moving from
	Harvesting English WIkipedia to Wikidata!
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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
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> *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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> *From:* Smith-Yoshimura,Karen [mailto:smithyok at oclc.org 
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> *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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