[DCRM-L] Citing VIAF

Thu Mar 26 14:14:48 MDT 2015

My thanks to Andrea Cawelti and (as ever) to Deborah Leslie. Both
approaches are more elegant than my "throw it all into a bag" approach
generally has been. I'm of two minds regarding e.g. "DNB" v. "Deutsche
Nationalbibliothek", but both have their virtues; and I do like to append
$u at the end, especially when a resource comes with a permalink, as VIAF
does.

Interesting that Folger records information in the original language
("Verleger, Publizist"), which I suppose is fine for domestic consumption
if a 374 field is included in the record--better in that case, really,
since it provides a check on the cataloger's linguistic judgement.

RICHARD NOBLE :: RARE MATERIALS CATALOGUER :: JOHN HAY LIBRARY
BROWN UNIVERSITY  ::  PROVIDENCE, R.I. 02912  ::  401-863-1187
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On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 3:20 PM, Cawelti, Andrea <cawelti at fas.harvard.edu>
wrote:

> 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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> From: "Noble, Richard" <richard_noble at brown.edu>
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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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> RICHARD NOBLE :: RARE MATERIALS CATALOGUER :: JOHN HAY LIBRARY BROWN
> UNIVERSITY  ::  PROVIDENCE, R.I. 02912  ::  401-863-1187 <Richard_Noble at Br
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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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> > 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.
> >
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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!
> >
> >
> >
> > 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. There I can
> > see the Gujarati form of Gandhi?s name, as harvested from Wikidata:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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