[DCRM-L] FW: VIAF question from rare book cataloger

[Dooley,Jackie]

Colleagues, I checked in with OCLC's in-house NACO liaison about this. The bottom line is that LC prefers that all questions go directly to NACO at loc.gov. This ensures that PCC staff (NACO is a a PCC program) are kept aware of any training needs, changes in personnel, program improvement possibilities, etc.

That said: VIAF is a reliable source for authority work, and NACO participants are encouraged to use it. You also have the option of entering a person's VIAF ID number into field 024 http://www.loc.gov/marc/authority/ad024.html of authority records.  You can see an example on ARN: 1815445.

She also mentioned that the handbook of examples that Karen Smith-Yoshimura cited is from the NACO-Music Project and therefore correct for any NACO Participant to follow.

Cheers- Jackie

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Jackie Dooley
Program Officer, OCLC Research


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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

RICHARD NOBLE :: RARE MATERIALS CATALOGUER :: JOHN HAY LIBRARY
BROWN UNIVERSITY  ::  PROVIDENCE, R.I. 02912  ::  401-863-1187
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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!

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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