VIAF Update
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Virtual International Authority File Merge of 27+ national level authority files 34 million authority records 103 million bibliographic records 23 million merged clusters Personal, corporate, geographic, works and
expressions
Updated monthly Open license, bulk downloads
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Example
Louis Pasteur Professor of Chemistry at the University of
Strasbourg, in 1848
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New Participants National Diet Library DBC (Denmark) National Library of the Netherlands National Library Board of Singapore
Coming: National Library of Poland National Library of Latvia National Library of Croatia
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Statistics
Online (browser) Usage
Had 3 days with substantial problems in 2012 Now over 1 million transactions/day (12/sec)
2011 2012Visits 364K 882KVisitors 139K 491KPageviews 2M 3.7M
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Changes
Wikipedia– Now treated as a ‘source’
ISNI– 1.3 million links– Should it be treated as a source?
Matching improvements
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VIAF Directions
Expanding view of where names come from– More sources– Scholars’ funnel– WorldCat*
More types of names– More fictional characters– Ships, animals, deities, …*
Production level servers More reports to participants