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Contributors to the Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) have generally been national libraries and other library agencies. We have just loaded into VIAF the first set of personal names from …
Read MoreFor the last few years I have been part of a group of OCLC staff charged with articulating data sharing practices that are consistent with the WorldCat Rights and Responsibilities …
Read MoreYou may recall that a while back we announced that linked data had been added to WorldCat.org web pages. If you scroll down when viewing a single record you can …
Read MoreRecently a question came up on the BIBFRAME list about ISBNs, and how many of them were in MARC records. This is just the kind of question that OCLC Research …
Read MoreThis post is co authored by David Michelson, Vanderbilt University Over the past year OCLC Research has been working with a group of Syriac studies scholars with the goal of …
Read MoreTry out the enhanced and expanded Virtual International Authority File at viaf.org.. It now contains 7.8 million records built from 9.2 million source authority records from the Library of Congress, …
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