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

[Robert Maxwell]

If citing a single library’s authority record in VIAF I do this:

670  Bibliothèque nationale de France, via VIAF, 16 March 2015ǂb( …

If citing VIAF collectively I do this:

670   VIAF, 16 March 2015 $b (…

Bob

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"We should set an example for all the world, rather than confine ourselves to the course which has been heretofore pursued"--Eliza R. Snow, 1842.

From: dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu] On Behalf Of Noble, Richard
Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2015 12:52 PM
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Subject: Re: [DCRM-L] FW: MetaMan IG: Exciting News! VIAF Moving from Harvesting English WIkipedia to Wikidata!

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<mailto:nschneider at humnet.ucla.edu>> wrote:
Of potential interest.

Nina


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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!

For those interested in linked data, this is a major new development in connecting identities to many international forms of name.

   John

From: Smith-Yoshimura,Karen [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!

Dear OCLC Research Library Partners Metadata Management Interest Group –
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>.

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.

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<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.

Hope you enjoy looking at this new source of data as much as I do!

Cheers,

Karen

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