[DCRM-L] Citing VIAF

Deborah J. Leslie DJLeslie at FOLGER.edu
Thu Mar 26 13:50:13 MDT 2015


A little more information on our policy:



VIAF: cite the acronym of the library whose authority record you've chosen, as given in field 003, along with any alternate spellings or other information, such as the occupation and gender if unclear, in the 670. Give original language for controlled vocabulary in authority records, for example, (Beruf(e)) in Deutsche National Bibliothek records.



Example

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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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)



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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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               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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>  Of potential interest.

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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<mailto: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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