Virtual International Authority File

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Virtual International Authority File (VIAF)

Screenshot  Virtual International Authority File (VIAF)
Web address	VIAF.org
Commercial?	No
Type of site	Web search engine, online public access catalog
Registration	No
Available in	English
Owner	OCLC
Created by	Joint project of four library organizations
Current status	Active

The Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) is an international authority file. It is a joint project of several national libraries and operated by the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC).^[1][2] The project was initiated by the German National Library and the US Library of Congress.

The aim is to link the national authority files (such as the German Name Authority File) to a single virtual authority file. In this file, identical records from the different data sets are linked together. A VIAF record receives a standard data number, contains the primary "see" and "see also" records from the original records, and refers to the original authority records. The data are made available online and are available for research and data exchange and sharing. Reciprocal updating uses the Open Archives Initiative protocol.

The file numbers are also being added to Wikipedia biographical articles.^[3]

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Contents

• 1 Participating libraries
• 2 Libraries added for testing purposes
• 3 See also
• 4 References
• 5 External links

Participating libraries[edit]

English-language name	Native-language name (if non-English)	Location	Country
BIBSYS	BIBSYS	Trondheim	Norway
Central Institute for the Union Catalogue of Italian Libraries and Bibliographic Information	Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico	Rome	Italy
German National Library	Deutsche Nationalbibliothek	Frankfurt	Germany
Getty Research Institute	–	Los Angeles, California	United States
Library and Archives Canada	Bibliothèque et Archives Canada	Ottawa, Ontario	Canada
Library of Alexandria	Bibliotheca Alexandrina	Alexandria	Egypt
Library of Congress (NACO consortium)	–	Washington, D.C.	United States
National Diet Library	国立国会図書館	Tokyo and Kyoto	Japan
National Library of Australia	–	Canberra	Australia
National Library of France	Bibliothèque nationale de France	Paris	France
National Library of Israel	הספרייה הלאומית	Jerusalem	Israel
National Library of Portugal	Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal	Lisbon	Portugal
National Library of Spain	Biblioteca Nacional de España	Madrid	Spain
National Library of Sweden	Kungliga Biblioteket	Stockholm	Sweden
National Library of the Czech Republic	Národní knihovna České republiky	Prague	Czech Republic
National Széchényi Library	Országos Széchényi Könyvtár	Budapest	Hungary
RERO: Library Network of Western Switzerland	Réseau des bibliothèques de Suisse occidentale or Westschweizer Bibliothekverbund		Switzerland
French university library consortium	Système universitaire de documentation		France
Swiss National Library	Schweizerische Nationalbibliothek, Bibliothèque nationale suisse, Biblioteca nazionale svizzera, Rete delle bibliotheche della Svizzera occidentale	Berne	Switzerland
NUKAT: Union Catalogue of Polish Research Libraries	NUKAT: katalog zbiorów polskich bibliotek naukowych		Poland
Vatican Library	Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana	–	Vatican City

Libraries added for testing purposes[edit]

English-language name	Native-language name (if non-English)	Location	Country
BIBNET: Flemish Public Libraries		Brussels	Belgium
Russian State Library	Российская государственная библиотека	Moscow	Russia
BIBSYS			Norway

See also[edit]

• Integrated Authority File (GND)
• International Standard Name Identifier

Library and information science portal

References[edit]

1. ^ Kelley, Michael; Schwartz, Meredith (2012). "VIAF service transitions to OCLC". Library Journal (Media Source) 137 (8): 16. 
2. ^ VIAF, OCLC .
3. ^ VIAFbot Edits 250,000 Wikipedia Articles to Reciprocate All Links from VIAF into Wikipedia, OCLC, 2012-12-07 

External links[edit]

Wikidata has a property, P214, for VIAF (see uses)

• Official website
• Brochures about aspects and purposes of VIAF (at OCLC)