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VIAF: The Virtual International Authority File

A joint project with the Library of Congress, the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, VIAF explores virtually combining the name authority files of all three institutions into a single name authority service.

The prototype system is available at http://viaf.org/.

About

The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, the Library of Congress, the Bibliothèque nationale de France, and OCLC are jointly conducting a project to match and link the authority records for personal names in the retrospective personal name authority files of the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (dnb), the Library of Congress (LC), and the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF).

Why OCLC is conducting this research and how it helps libraries

Presentation

Virtual International Authority File (PPT:325K/25 slides). ALA Annual Conference, 24 June 2006, New Orleans, Louisiana (USA)

Prototype

The prototype system is available at http://viaf.org/.

Research team