The Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) is a new, international service designed to
provide convenient access to the world’s major name authority files (limited in the initial
stages of the service to names for persons). 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.
%0 Journal Article
%1 viaf_oclc
%D 2009
%E OCLC,
%K brochure oclc viaf
%T Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) : expanding the concept of universal bibliographic control
%U http://www.oclc.org/services/brochures/213998usf_virtual_international_authority_file_VIAF.pdf
%X The Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) is a new, international service designed to
provide convenient access to the world’s major name authority files (limited in the initial
stages of the service to names for persons). 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.
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abstract = {The Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) is a new, international service designed to
provide convenient access to the world’s major name authority files (limited in the initial
stages of the service to names for persons). 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.},
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editor = {OCLC},
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timestamp = {2010-02-01T15:30:19.000+0100},
title = {Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) : expanding the concept of universal bibliographic control},
url = {http://www.oclc.org/services/brochures/213998usf_virtual_international_authority_file_VIAF.pdf},
year = 2009
}