BARTOC.org: Virtual International Authority File

<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no"> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/img/bartoc-icon.png" type="image/png" /> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/bootstrap.min.css"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/layout.css"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/fontawesome.min.css"> <title>BARTOC.org: Virtual International Authority File</title>  <script type="module" src="/dist/assets/main-Dh-65dGm.js"></script>  <link rel="stylesheet" href="/dist/assets/main-BLha7W_d.css">   <link rel="canonical" href="http://bartoc.org/en/node/2053" /> </head> <body> <div id="app"> <header class="navbar navbar-dark bg-primary navbar-expand-lg"> <div class="container"> <a class="navbar-brand" href="/"> <span class="d-none d-md-block">BARTOC.org</span> <span class="d-md-none">B</span> </a> <ul class="navbar-nav mr-auto"> <li class="nav-item active"> <a class="nav-link" href="/vocabularies">Vocabularies</a> </li> <li class="nav-item "> <a class="nav-link" href="/registries">Registries</a> </li> <li class="nav-item "> <a class="nav-link" href="/software">Software</a> </li> <li class="nav-item "> <a class="nav-link" href="/about">About</a> </li> <li class="nav-item "> <a class="nav-link" href="/contact">Contact</a> </li> </ul> </div> <ul class="navbar-nav mr-auto"> <li class="nav-item "> <a class="nav-link" href="/stats">Statistics</a> </li> <li v-cloak> <user-status :login="login" @update:user="updateUser" @update:auth="updateAuth"/> </li> <li v-cloak v-if="userCanAdd"> <a class="btn btn-success" href="/edit">add</a> </li> </ul> </header> <div class="container"> <noscript> <div class="alert alert-danger" role="alert"> JavaScript needs to be enabled for this site to work properly. </div> </noscript> <a v-cloak v-if="userCanAdd" style="float:right" class="btn btn-success" href="/edit?uri=http://bartoc.org/en/node/2053">edit</a> <h1>Virtual International Authority File</h1>  <ul class="nav nav-tabs" id="vocabulary-tabs" role="tablist"> <li class="nav-item" role="presentation"> <a class="nav-link active" data-toggle="tab" href="#about" role="tab" aria-controls="about" aria-selected="true" onclick="changeTab(0);">About</a> </li> <li class="nav-item" role="presentation"> <a class="nav-link" data-toggle="tab" href="#access" role="tab" aria-controls="access" aria-selected="false" onclick="changeTab(1);">Access</a> </li> <li class="nav-item" role="presentation"> <a class="nav-link" data-toggle="tab" href="#content" role="tab" aria-controls="content" aria-selected="false" onclick="changeTab(2);">Content</a> </li> <li class="nav-item" role="presentation"> <a class="nav-link" data-toggle="tab" href="#identifiers" role="tab" aria-controls="identifiers" aria-selected="false" onclick="changeTab(3);">Identifiers</a> </li> </ul> <div class="tab-content p-3" id="vocabulary-tabs-content"> <div class="tab-pane fade show active" role="tabpanel" aria-labelledby="home-tab"> <p lang="en" class="language-tag"> "The Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) is an international service designed to provide convenient access to the world's major name authority files. Its creators envision the VIAF as a building block for the Semantic Web to enable switching of the displayed form of names for persons to the preferred language and script of the Web user. VIAF began as a joint project with the Library of Congress (LC), the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (DNB), the Biblioth猫que nationale de France (BNF) and OCLC. It has, over the past decade, become a cooperative effort involving an expanding number of other national libraries and other agencies. (...)</p><p>VIAF helps to make library authority files less expensive to maintain and more generally useful to the library domain and beyond. To achieve this, VIAF matches and links the authority files of national libraries and groups all authority records for a given entity into a merged 'super' authority record that brings together the different names for that entity. By linking disparate names for the same person or organization, VIAF provides a convenient means for a wider community of libraries and other agencies to repurpose bibliographic data produced by libraries serving different language communities." </p> <table class="table table-borderless"> <tr> <td> Titles </td> <td> <ul class="list-unstyled"><li>Virtual International Authority File</li></ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> Abbreviation </td> <td> <ul class="list-unstyled"><li>VIAF</li></ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> KOS Type </td> <td> <ul class="list-inline"><li class="list-inline-item"> <a href="/vocabularies?type=http%3A//w3id.org/nkos/nkostype%23name_authority_list" lang="en"> Name authority list </a> </li></ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> Links </td> <td> <ul class="list-unstyled"><li><a href="https://viaf.org/de/viaf/data" target="blank">https://viaf.org/de/viaf/data</a> </li></ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> Subject </td> <td> <ul class="list-inline"><li class="list-inline-item"> <a href="/vocabularies?subject=http%3A//dewey.info/class/0/e23/" lang="en"> Computer science, information & general works (0) </a> </li> <li class="list-inline-item"> <a href="/vocabularies?subject=http%3A//dewey.info/class/001/e23/" lang="en"> Knowledge (001) </a> </li></ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <i class="fas fa-language"></i> Languages </td> <td> <ul class="list-inline"><li class="list-inline-item">zh</li> <li class="list-inline-item">nl</li> <li class="list-inline-item">en</li> <li class="list-inline-item">fr</li> <li class="list-inline-item">de</li> <li class="list-inline-item">es</li></ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <i class="fas fa-calendar"></i> Created </td> <td> 2003 </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <i class="fas fa-link"></i> URI </td> <td> <a href="http://bartoc.org/en/node/2053" target="blank">http://bartoc.org/en/node/2053</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <i class="fas fa-home"></i> Homepage </td> <td> <a href="http://viaf.org/" target="blank">http://viaf.org/</a> </td> </tr>  </table> </div> <div class="tab-pane fade" role="tabpanel" aria-labelledby="access-tab"> <table class="table table-borderless"> <tr> <td> Access </td> <td> <ul class="list-inline"><li class="list-inline-item"> <a href="http://bartoc.org/en/Access/Free" lang="en"> freely available </a> </li></ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> License </td> <td> <ul class="list-inline"><li class="list-inline-item"> <a href="/vocabularies?license=http%3A//www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/by/1.0/" lang="en"> http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/by/1.0/ </a> </li></ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> Format </td> <td> <ul class="list-inline"><li class="list-inline-item"> <a href="http://bartoc.org/en/Format/MARC" lang="en"> MARC Format (MARC21 or other) </a> </li> <li class="list-inline-item"> <a href="http://bartoc.org/en/Format/MARC" lang="en"> MARC Format (MARC21 or other) </a> </li> <li class="list-inline-item"> <a href="http://bartoc.org/en/Format/Online" lang="en"> Online </a> </li> <li class="list-inline-item"> <a href="http://bartoc.org/en/Format/RDF" lang="en"> RDF </a> </li> <li class="list-inline-item"> <a href="http://bartoc.org/en/Format/XML" lang="en"> XML </a> </li></ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> Publisher </td> <td> <ul class="list-unstyled"><li> <a href="http://viaf.org/viaf/156508705" lang="en"> Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) </a> </li></ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> Address </td> <td> <ul class="list-unstyled"><li>6565 Kilgour Place</li> <li>Dublin</li> <li>OH</li> <li>43017</li> <li>United States</li></ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> Listed in </td> <td> <ul class="list-unstyled"><li> <a href="/en/node/18961" lang="en"> NFDI4Objects Terminologies </a> </li></ul> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div class="tab-pane fade" role="tabpanel" aria-labelledby="content-tab"> <table class="table table-borderless"> <tr> <td> Languages </td> <td> <ul class="list-inline"><li class="list-inline-item">zh</li> <li class="list-inline-item">nl</li> <li class="list-inline-item">en</li> <li class="list-inline-item">fr</li> <li class="list-inline-item">de</li> <li class="list-inline-item">es</li></ul> </td> </tr> </table> <hr> <concept-browser :scheme="{"uri":"http://bartoc.org/en/node/2053","identifier":["http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q54919"],"API":[],"notationPattern":"[1-9]\\d(\\d{0,7}|\\d{17,20})]"}"></concept-browser> </div> <div class="tab-pane fade" role="tabpanel" aria-labelledby="identifiers-tab">  <table class="table table-borderless"> <tr> <td> <i class="fas fa-link"></i> URI </td> <td> <a href="http://bartoc.org/en/node/2053" target="blank">http://bartoc.org/en/node/2053</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> Identifiers </td> <td> <ul class="list-unstyled"><li><a href="http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q54919" target="blank">http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q54919</a></li></ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> Namespace </td> <td> <a href="http://viaf.org/viaf/" target="blank">http://viaf.org/viaf/</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> Notation pattern </td> <td> [1-9]\d(\d{0,7}|\d{17,20})] </td> 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