1. Virtual International Authority File – introduction & implications Basil Dewhurst Project Manager, ARDC Party Infrastructure Project | National Library of Australia bdewhurs@nla.gov.au

2. VIAF introduction A multinational collaboration: joint project between OCLC, the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Library of Congress and contributing National Libraries Goal: to virtually combine the name authority files from institutions across the globe into a single name authority service. 2

3. Authority files Local National International 3

4. VIAF name matching Identifiers Names and dates Related bibliographic resources 4

5. 5 VIAF (http://viaf.org/)http://viaf.org/

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10. 10 Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727 (http://viaf.org/viaf/22146457)http://viaf.org/viaf/22146457

11. 11 Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727 (http://viaf.org/viaf/22146457)http://viaf.org/viaf/22146457

12. 12 Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727 (http://viaf.org/viaf/22146457)http://viaf.org/viaf/22146457

13. 13 Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727 (http://viaf.org/viaf/22146457)http://viaf.org/viaf/22146457

14. 14 Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727 (http://viaf.org/viaf/22146457)http://viaf.org/viaf/22146457

15. 15 Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727 (http://viaf.org/viaf/22146457)http://viaf.org/viaf/22146457

16. 16 Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727 (http://viaf.org/viaf/22146457)http://viaf.org/viaf/22146457

17. 17 Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727 (http://viaf.org/viaf/22146457)http://viaf.org/viaf/22146457

18. Other ways of searching Via Search/Retrieve via URL (SRU) at http://viaf.org/search (Records available in VIAF format)http://viaf.org/search Other record formats RDF (http://viaf.org/viaf/32063971.rdf)http://viaf.org/viaf/32063971.rdf MARC21 (http://viaf.org/viaf/32063971.m21)http://viaf.org/viaf/32063971.m21 UNIMARC (http://viaf.org/viaf/32063971.unimarc)http://viaf.org/viaf/32063971.unimarc VIAF (http://viaf.org/viaf/32063971.viaf)http://viaf.org/viaf/32063971.viaf 18

19. VIAF Opportunities Implementation in other databases / portals Permanent URIs Semantic Web 19

20. People Australia program Overview Records available via Trove (http://trove.nla.gov.au/people)http://trove.nla.gov.au/people Contributors Record format Machine-to-machine interfaces 20

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22. VIAF and the People Australia program/Trove The record for The logic of scientific discovery / Karl R. Popper (http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/8936549) provides “Popper, Karl Raimund Sir, 1902-1994” as the author. Clicking on this link provides search results for works he has created.http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/8936549 22

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25. Virtual International Authority File – introduction & implications Basil Dewhurst Project Manager, ARDC Party Infrastructure Project | National Library of Australia bdewhurs@nla.gov.au