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not frozen", "compression": { "title": "Virtual International Authority File (VIAF)", "lede": "is an international name authority file, a joint project of national libraries operated by OCLC since 2012, that links existing authority files into monthly clusters, each with an identifier that can change as clusters coalesce or split; how it holds a pseudonym or heteronym is unshown." }, "sentences": [ { "n": 1, "para": 0, "text": "The Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) is an international authority file, a joint project of several national libraries operated by OCLC, that combines multiple library name authority files into a single OCLC-hosted name authority service.", "claims": [ "F11", "F1", "F2", "F30", "F38", "LS-01", "LS-03" ] }, { "n": 2, "para": 0, "text": "Its contributors supply authority data that VIAF matches, links and groups; all the descriptions of one entity are merged into a cluster that brings the entity's different names together, and each cluster is assigned a URI.", "claims": [ "F3", "F43" ] }, { "n": 3, "para": 0, "text": "The entities it covers are those whose names libraries control: people, corporations and places, and works and expressions in the FRBR model; its clusters are chiefly of persons and organizations.", "claims": [ "F47", "F43" ] }, { "n": 4, "para": 0, "text": "In the cluster's data model the emphasis falls on recognizing, identifying and relating \"the thing\" that the contributors are trying to name, a model that passed from SKOS concepts through FOAF to foaf:focus.", "claims": [ "F57" ] }, { "n": 5, "para": 1, "text": "The file was designed as a linkage: after several failed attempts to develop one joint authority file, the plan became to link the existing national authorities into a single virtual authority file in which identical records from the different data sets are linked together.", "claims": [ "F12", "F17", "F30" ] }, { "n": 6, "para": 1, "text": "A VIAF record receives a standard data number, carries the primary \"see\" and \"see also\" records of the original documents and refers back to the original authority records; an example identifier is 106965171, and a VIAF URI has the canonical form http://viaf.org/viaf/[numerical value], which OCLC encourages for use in all appropriate circumstances.", "claims": [ "F18", "F26", "F46", "LS-09" ] }, { "n": 7, "para": 1, "text": "National and regional variations in authorized form coexist within a cluster, with regional preferences of language, spelling and script preserved, so that German users see a name in the form the DNB established, French users the form the BnF established and English-speaking users the form of the LC/NACO file.", "claims": [ "F33", "F34", "F4" ] }, { "n": 8, "para": 1, "text": "By linking disparate names for the same person or organization, it lets libraries serving different language communities repurpose one another's bibliographic data, toward its stated goal of lowering the cost and increasing the utility of library authority files.", "claims": [ "F32", "F10", "F48" ] }, { "n": 9, "para": 2, "text": "The Library of Congress, the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek and OCLC began it in April 1998 as a proof of concept that authority records can be linked; after four years of testing the three formed the VIAF Consortium at the 2003 IFLA congress, on 6 August 2003, and the Bibliothรจque nationale de France joined in October 2007.", "claims": [ "F7", "F13", "F14", "F8", "F15", "LS-16", "LS-27" ] }, { "n": 10, "para": 2, "text": "On 4 April 2012 it passed from an OCLC Research prototype to an OCLC service, and OCLC Research's own page for the project now states that the research has concluded and that the page is kept \"for historical purposes only\".", "claims": [ "F29", "F16", "F28", "LS-02" ] }, { "n": 11, "para": 2, "text": "OCLC maintains its hosting, software and data with the advice of the VIAF Council, through which the contributors take part in governance; the Cooperative Agreement the research page records places all key decisions with the Principals, and agencies that wish to participate must apply.", "claims": [ "F9", "F6", "F35", "F36", "LS-13" ] }, { "n": 12, "para": 3, "text": "Counts of its participants differ by date and by source: 21 authority files from 18 organizations in the winter of 2011 on the research page, 22 principals and contributors in 18 countries at the 2012 transition and more than 50 organizations from more than 30 countries on OCLC's current page, and \"a joint project of 20 national libraries\" in the Linked Open Data Cloud's record.", "claims": [ "F31", "F9", "F5", "F39", "F38" ] }, { "n": 13, "para": 3, "text": "Wikipedia's table of participants lists national libraries beside ISNI, the Perseus Project, the Getty Union List of Artist Names and Wikidata, the last marked \"citation needed\".", "claims": [ "F25", "LS-10" ] }, { "n": 14, "para": 3, "text": "In 2012 its builders described a dataset built from nearly two dozen files of 25 million authority records and 110 million bibliographic records, forming some 20 million clusters, and the Linked Open Data Cloud's record gives 200 million triples; no current count stands in the census record's saved source.", "claims": [ "F51", "F42", "LS-17" ] }, { "n": 15, "para": 4, "text": "Source files and their bibliographic metadata are sent to or harvested by OCLC, usually monthly; the records go through a matching process documented down to its appendices of noise titles, occupation codes and name synonyms, ambiguities are resolved, clusters are built from the matching records, and the file is rebuilt each month.", "claims": [ "F49", "F37", "F44", "LS-15" ] }, { "n": 16, "para": 4, "text": "Because the clustering algorithm runs every month, clusters may coalesce or split as data are added, and the identifier of certain authority records fluctuates; record IDs are maintained across updates with redirects when clusters are merged, and a change made in a source file can take more than a month to show.", "claims": [ "F24", "F50", "F54", "LS-19", "LS-30" ] }, { "n": 17, "para": 4, "text": "An earlier archive paper describes VIAF as aggregating national authority files \"to create stable identifiers for persons, organizations, and works\", one of the registries that solve entity disambiguation by assigning and maintaining identifiers; that description and the record of fluctuating identifiers stand together, and the redirects bear on both.", "claims": [ "O317-01", "O317-02", "F24", "F50" ] }, { "n": 18, "para": 5, "text": "Hickey and Young list among its known shortcomings that differences in rules and conventions cause difficulties, the common example being one authority file with entities for both Samuel Clemens and Mark Twain where another has only Mark Twain, and that matching is fairly conservative, so many possible matches are missed.", "claims": [ "F53", "F52" ] }, { "n": 19, "para": 5, "text": "The archive classes Clemens writing as Twain as pseudonymy, a different name on a work whose authorial function stays traceable to the civil identity behind it; in its account a pseudonym changes the label attached to an authorial function and a heteronym changes the organization of the function itself, the two told apart by eight testable markers, and the heteronym's function is attributable through the civil bearer without being reducible to that bearer.", "claims": [ "O940-01", "O940-02", "O940-03", "O940-04" ] }, { "n": 20, "para": 5, "text": "The archive also holds that heteronyms often have independent authority-control records because library systems catalogued them separately before the heteronymic nature of the authorship was widely understood, and it lists VIAF's Wikidata property, P214, among the identifiers a heteronym's item carries.", "claims": [ "O668-02" ] }, { "n": 21, "para": 5, "text": "Whether VIAF holds a pseudonym or heteronym as a see or see-also form of its bearer's cluster or as a cluster of its own is unanswered in the census record's saved source, as is whether a given chosen name has stayed distinct or been merged by the clustering algorithm; no VIAF cluster for a pseudonym or heteronym has been checked.", "claims": [ "LS-12", "LS-21", "LS-29", "LS-34" ] }, { "n": 22, "para": 5, "text": "The census reads the clusters that coalesce or split as the point where an authorial name can be merged with another by algorithm, the collapse #940 names, or separated again, and it records no instance of either for a given name.", "claims": [ "LS-23", "CAP-1-06" ] }, { "n": 23, "para": 5, "text": "ISNI, whose assignment system is based primarily on VIAF and which VIAF lists as a participant, gives each name or pseudonym under which an author has published its own ISNI.", "claims": [ "F58", "F59", "LS-32", "LS-33" ] }, { "n": 24, "para": 5, "text": "The archive counts the forcing of heteronyms into \"pseudonym\" categories that miss their distinctiveness as category collapse, a form of taxonomic violence it observes where literary personas are deleted from Wikipedia or miscategorized in Wikidata, and it calls a Wikidata statement sourced only to \"stated in Virtual International Authority File\" structurally vulnerable and informationally shallow.", "claims": [ "O261-01", "O668-01" ] }, { "n": 25, "para": 6, "text": "In #940's account a civil name is the atomic unit of attribution across the systems that govern legitimacy, and a civil-name attribution regime can attempt to collapse a heteronymic corpus into single-civil-identity ownership; the heteronymic architecture does not prevent the attempt and makes the collapse register as loss.", "claims": [ "O940-05", "O940-06" ] }, { "n": 26, "para": 6, "text": "#1722 keeps the existence of a maker apart from the kind of work: a heteronym is a real author's practice, and a heteronym has a hand that wrote it.", "claims": [ "O1722-01", "O1722-02" ] }, { "n": 27, "para": 7, "text": "Christine L. Borgman groups VIAF with ISNI and ORCID as \"loosely coordinated efforts to standardize name forms\" and attempts at the problem of author name disambiguation, and notes that VIAF, unlike the other two, is led by libraries, as opposed to individual authors or creators.", "claims": [ "F21", "F22", "F23", "LS-31" ] }, { "n": 28, "para": 7, "text": "Among its own stated shortcomings is a limited ability for those outside the library community to correct errors, and the archive sets authority control, which assigns identity from above, against its own practice of constructing recognizability from within.", "claims": [ "F52", "O317-03" ] }, { "n": 29, "para": 7, "text": "The census reads VIAF as identity resolution led by libraries that links records judged identical into one cluster, records nothing in the file on authorial function or responsibility, and enters it as infrastructure to its question, a record of type index that keeps no works and links the authority records that participating libraries keep for names.", "claims": [ "LS-22", "LS-14", "LS-04", "LS-05", "LS-11", "LS-06", "LS-20" ] }, { "n": 30, "para": 7, "text": "Its census asks how authorship is made, named, distributed, attributed and sustained across persons, personas, collectives and machine participation, and what is lost when those relations are collapsed, admits aggregators that gather and hold many works or records and say what they hold, and places VIAF under attribution, credit and identity infrastructure and meta-aggregation, its evidence an identity registry and a catalogue, read against #940 and #1722.", "claims": [ "LS-35", "LS-36", "LS-07", "LS-08", "LS-37" ] }, { "n": 31, "para": 8, "text": "The data are available online for research, data exchange and sharing through a public website, a public API and bulk downloads, with reciprocal updating over OAI-PMH, and the dataset is released under the Open Data Commons Attribution License, a licence the census record found unstated in its saved source.", "claims": [ "F19", "F56", "F45", "F40", "LS-24", "LS-25" ] }, { "n": 32, "para": 8, "text": "Its file numbers are added to Wikipedia biographical articles and incorporated into Wikidata, and as linked open data it was used in 2012 by freebase.com and other services; the Linked Open Data Cloud's record marks itself without licence or provenance metadata, and its listed download links on viaf.org fail with HTTP 403.", "claims": [ "F20", "F56", "F40", "F41", "LS-18", "CAP-1-07" ] }, { "n": 33, "para": 8, "text": "In 2012 its builders counted about 55,000 visits a month to its pages and about 10 million web-service searches or page accesses a month, many apparently from commercial web harvesters.", "claims": [ "F55" ] }, { "n": 34, "para": 9, "text": "VIAF's own site refused the census's fetch and this row's with a Cloudflare block, so its own statements are read here through its card's snippet, OCLC's pages and the 2012 dataset description; the census record rests on the Wikipedia article, last edited on 19 June 2026, and the ISNI article, last edited on 13 October 2026, tags a viaf.org sourceID URL as a dead link.", "claims": [ "F1", "F27", "F60", "LS-28", "LS-26", "CAP-1-09" ] }, { "n": 35, "para": 9, "text": "Asked for \"VIAF\" on 1 November 2026, Google's AI Overview said what the file is, who runs it, where it came from, what it is for and how to use it; the Capture Registry found its origin, operator and integration exact and the 2012 transition carried on the fourth card only.", "claims": [ "CAP-1-10", "CAP-1-01", "CAP-1-02", "CAP-1-14", "CAP-1-13" ] }, { "n": 36, "para": 9, "text": "The registry also found that the Overview linked pseudonyms on no saved page, gave each cluster a \"unique\" identifier where the saved account records its fluctuation, named no participant beyond the three founders, and left Borgman's point on libraries uncarried.", "claims": [ "CAP-1-03", "CAP-1-05", "CAP-1-08", "CAP-1-04", "CAP-1-11", "CAP-1-12" ] } ], "claims": { "F11": { "kind": "field", "quote": "The Virtual International Authority File ( VIAF ) is an international authority file . 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All descriptions for a given entity are merged into a cluster that brings together the different names for that entity.", "source": "B2", "source_label": "OCLC โ€” VIAF: Convenient access to name authority files | OCLC", "locus": "Overview", "modality": "stipulation" }, "F43": { "kind": "field", "quote": "VIAF virtually combines multiple library authority files into a single name authority service. The system mines and clusters variant names for a given entity (chiefly, persons and organizations), links the corresponding source records, and assigns a URI to each cluster.", "source": "B6", "source_label": "Semantic Web Journal โ€” Description of the VIAF (Virtual International Authority File) Dataset", "locus": "Brief description of dataset", "modality": "stipulation" }, "F47": { "kind": "field", "quote": "Entities whose names are controlled by libraries, including people, corporations, and places, as well as FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) works and expressions.", "source": "B6", "source_label": "Semantic Web Journal โ€” Description of the VIAF (Virtual International Authority File) Dataset", "locus": "Topic coverage", "modality": "stipulation" }, "F57": { "kind": "field", "quote": "the emphasis isn't so much on imposing labels across all domains as it is on recognizing, identifying, and relating \"the thing\" that all these contributors are trying to name. โ€ฆ The solution eventually revealed itself in the form of foaf:focus", "source": "B6", "source_label": "Semantic Web Journal โ€” Description of the VIAF (Virtual International Authority File) Dataset", "locus": "The evolution of data modeling and linked data in VIAF", "modality": "stipulation" }, "F12": { "kind": "field", "quote": "After several failed attempts to develop a unique joint authority file, the new idea was to link existing national authorities.", "source": "B3", "source_label": "Wikipedia โ€” Virtual International Authority File - Wikipedia", "locus": "History", "modality": "documented" }, "F17": { "kind": "field", "quote": "The aim is to link the national authority files (such as the German Integrated Authority File ) to a single virtual authority file. In this file, identical records from the different data sets are linked together.", "source": "B3", "source_label": "Wikipedia โ€” Virtual International Authority File - Wikipedia", "locus": "History", "modality": "documented" }, "F18": { "kind": "field", "quote": "A VIAF record receives a standard data number, contains the primary \"see\" and \"see also\" records from the original documents, and refers to the original authority records.", "source": "B3", "source_label": "Wikipedia โ€” Virtual International Authority File - Wikipedia", "locus": "History", "modality": "documented" }, "F26": { "kind": "field", "quote": "Example 106965171", "source": "B3", "source_label": "Wikipedia โ€” Virtual International Authority File - Wikipedia", "locus": "infobox", "modality": "documented" }, "F46": { "kind": "field", "quote": "To facilitate interoperability, OCLC strongly encourages the use of VIAF URIs in all appropriate circumstances. 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After four years of testing authority file linking, this group formed the VIAF Consortium at the 69th IFLA General Conference in August 2003.", "source": "B2", "source_label": "OCLC โ€” VIAF: Convenient access to name authority files | OCLC", "locus": "Join a trusted global authority file", "modality": "documented" }, "F13": { "kind": "field", "quote": "The project was initiated by the American Library of Congress (LC), the German National Library (DNB), and the OCLC in April 1998 as a proof-of-concept that authority records can be linked.", "source": "B3", "source_label": "Wikipedia โ€” Virtual International Authority File - Wikipedia", "locus": "History", "modality": "documented" }, "F14": { "kind": "field", "quote": "After extensive testing, the VIAF consortium was formed at the 2003 World Library and Information Congress โ€ฆ on 6 August 2003,", "source": "B3", "source_label": "Wikipedia โ€” Virtual International Authority File - Wikipedia", "locus": "History", "modality": "documented" }, "F8": { "kind": "field", "quote": "The Bibliothรจque nationale de France joined the consortium in October 2007.", "source": "B2", "source_label": "OCLC โ€” VIAF: Convenient access to name authority files | OCLC", "locus": "Join a trusted global authority file", "modality": "documented" }, "F15": { "kind": "field", "quote": "The Bibliothรจque nationale de France (BnF) joined the project on 5 October 2007.", "source": "B3", "source_label": "Wikipedia โ€” Virtual International Authority File - Wikipedia", "locus": "History", "modality": "documented" }, "LS-16": { "kind": "archive", "quote": "proof of concept from April 1998; consortium formed 6 August 2003", "deposit": null, "source_label": "leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/viaf), editor Lee Sharks, compiled and revised 2026-11-01, schema 1.1", "record": "https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/viaf", "locus": "census.json rows[slug == 'viaf'].coverage", "modality": "documented", "date": "2026-11-01" }, "LS-27": { "kind": "archive", "quote": "2003 (consortium formed 6 August 2003; initiated April 1998 by the Library of Congress, the German National Library and OCLC), per Wikipedia", "deposit": null, "source_label": "leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/viaf), editor Lee Sharks, compiled and revised 2026-11-01, schema 1.1", "record": "https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/viaf", "locus": "census.json rows[slug == 'viaf'].founded", "modality": "documented", "date": "2026-11-01" }, "F29": { "kind": "field", "quote": "On 4 April 2012, VIAF has transitioned from an OCLC Research prototype to an OCLC service.", "source": "B4", "source_label": "OCLC โ€” VIAF (The Virtual International Authority File)", "locus": "notice", "modality": "documented" }, "F16": { "kind": "field", "quote": "The project transitioned to being a service of OCLC on 4 April 2012.", "source": "B3", "source_label": "Wikipedia โ€” Virtual International Authority File - Wikipedia", "locus": "History", "modality": "documented" }, "F28": { "kind": "field", "quote": "Please note: This research project has concluded. โ€ฆ Information on this page is provided for historical purposes only. Some portion of this content may be out-of-date and include broken links.", "source": "B4", "source_label": "OCLC โ€” VIAF (The Virtual International Authority File)", "locus": "notice", "modality": "self-description" }, "LS-02": { "kind": "archive", "quote": "OCLC (Online Computer Library Center), operating a joint project of several national libraries; a service of OCLC since 4 April 2012", "deposit": null, "source_label": "leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/viaf), editor Lee Sharks, compiled and revised 2026-11-01, schema 1.1", "record": "https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/viaf", "locus": "census.json rows[slug == 'viaf'].operator", "modality": "documented", "date": "2026-11-01" }, "F9": { "kind": "field", "quote": "In 2012, the 22 VIAF Principals and Contributors in 18 countries worked with OCLC as VIAF transitioned into an OCLC service. With advice from the VIAF Council, OCLC maintains the hosting, software, and data for VIAF.", "source": "B2", "source_label": "OCLC โ€” VIAF: Convenient access to name authority files | OCLC", "locus": "Join a trusted global authority file", "modality": "documented" }, "F6": { "kind": "field", "quote": "These Contributors participate in the governance of VIAF through the VIAF Council, which provides guidance on the policies, practices, and operation of VIAF.", "source": "B2", "source_label": "OCLC โ€” VIAF: Convenient access to name authority files | OCLC", "locus": "Collaborate with other libraries", "modality": "documented" }, "F35": { "kind": "field", "quote": "VIAF consortium members are governed by the VIAF Cooperative Agreement. 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Put simply it is a large database of people and organizations that occur in library catalogs. โ€ฆ VIAF is a joint project of 20 national libraries, implemented and hosted by OCLC.", "source": "B5", "source_label": "The Linked Open Data Cloud โ€” LOD Cloud", "locus": "dataset record, description.en", "modality": "attributed" }, "F25": { "kind": "field", "quote": "International Standard Name Identifier ISNI โ€“ London United Kingdom โ€ฆ Perseus Project PERSEUS โ€ฆ Union List of Artist Names โ€“ Getty Research Institute ULAN JPG โ€ฆ Wikidata [ citation needed ] WKP", "source": "B3", "source_label": "Wikipedia โ€” Virtual International Authority File - Wikipedia", "locus": "Participating libraries and organizations (table)", "modality": "documented" }, "LS-10": { "kind": "archive", "quote": "authority records from national libraries and other participating organizations, among them the Library of Congress NACO, the German National Library (GND), the Bibliothรจque nationale de France, ISNI, the Getty Union List of Artist Names, the Perseus Project and Wikidata (marked 'citation needed')", "deposit": null, "source_label": "leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/viaf), editor Lee Sharks, compiled and revised 2026-11-01, schema 1.1", "record": "https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/viaf", "locus": "census.json rows[slug == 'viaf'].record_object", "modality": "documented", "date": "2026-11-01" }, "F51": { "kind": "field", "quote": "The dataset is built from information supplied by nearly two dozen files consisting of 25 million authority records and 110 million bibliographic records. 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The Appendices list the \"noise titles\", country codes, occupation codes, and name synonyms", "source": "B4", "source_label": "OCLC โ€” VIAF (The Virtual International Authority File)", "locus": "Documents", "modality": "documented" }, "F44": { "kind": "field", "quote": "Updated monthly โ€ฆ The file is rebuilt each month using the latest source data.", "source": "B6", "source_label": "Semantic Web Journal โ€” Description of the VIAF (Virtual International Authority File) Dataset", "locus": "Version date and number; Maintenance", "modality": "documented" }, "LS-15": { "kind": "archive", "quote": "algorithmic clustering, run monthly, of authority records from participating national and other authority files into one virtual authority file; reciprocal updating by OAI-PMH", "deposit": null, "source_label": "leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/viaf), editor Lee Sharks, compiled and revised 2026-11-01, schema 1.1", "record": "https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/viaf", "locus": "census.json rows[slug == 'viaf'].method", "modality": "documented", "date": "2026-11-01" }, "F24": { "kind": "field", "quote": "VIAF's clustering algorithm is run every month. As more data are added from participating libraries, clusters of authority records may coalesce or split, leading to some fluctuation in the VIAF identifier of certain authority records.", "source": "B3", "source_label": "Wikipedia โ€” Virtual International Authority File - Wikipedia", "locus": "VIAF clusters", "modality": "documented" }, "F50": { "kind": "field", "quote": "Record IDs are maintained across updates with redirects in the Web service API when clusters get merged.", "source": "B6", "source_label": "Semantic Web Journal โ€” Description of the VIAF (Virtual International Authority File) Dataset", "locus": "Method of creation", "modality": "documented" }, "F54": { "kind": "field", "quote": "Monthly updates mean changes made to the source files could take more than a month to show up in VIAF", "source": "B6", "source_label": "Semantic Web Journal โ€” Description of the VIAF (Virtual International Authority File) Dataset", "locus": "Known Shortcomings", "modality": "self-description" }, "LS-19": { "kind": "archive", "quote": "clusters of authority records 'may coalesce or split', so the VIAF identifier of some records fluctuates (Wikipedia, third party) โ€ฆ viaf.org's own statements are unread: the fetch was blocked by Cloudflare (http 403)", "deposit": null, "source_label": "leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/viaf), editor Lee Sharks, compiled and revised 2026-11-01, schema 1.1", "record": "https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/viaf", "locus": "census.json rows[slug == 'viaf'].stated_limits", "modality": "documented", "date": "2026-11-01" }, "LS-30": { "kind": "archive", "quote": "NOT a stable identifier in every case: clusters coalesce or split monthly", "deposit": null, "source_label": "leesharks.com apparatus authorship census record: Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) (https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/viaf), editor Lee Sharks, compiled and revised 2026-11-01, schema 1.1", "record": "https://www.leesharks.com/apparatus/aggregators/viaf", "locus": "census.json rows[slug == 'viaf'].negative_tags.2", "modality": "interpretation", "date": "2026-11-01" }, "O317-01": { "kind": "archive", "quote": "The Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) aggregates national authority files to create stable identifiers for persons, organizations, and works.", "deposit": 317, "source_label": "#317 LOGOTIC PROGRAMMING: A Method for Encoding Conditions of Intelligibility for Machine and Human Intelligence", "record": "https://www.alexanarch.org/s/records/317/", "locus": "ยง3.1.1 Authority Control and Identity Management ยถ1 (line 193)", "modality": "interpretation", "date": "2026-01-17" }, "O317-02": { "kind": "archive", "quote": "These systems solve entity disambiguation through โ€ฆ institutional coordination โ€ฆ : centralized or federated registries that assign and maintain identifiers.", "deposit": 317, "source_label": "#317 LOGOTIC PROGRAMMING: A Method for Encoding Conditions of Intelligibility for Machine and Human Intelligence", "record": "https://www.alexanarch.org/s/records/317/", "locus": "ยง3.1.1 ยถ2 (line 196)", "modality": "interpretation", "date": "2026-01-17" }, "F53": { "kind": "field", "quote": "Differences in rules and conventions can cause difficulties. A common example is for one authority file to have entities for both Samuel Clemens and Mark Twain, while another only has Mark Twain.", "source": "B6", "source_label": "Semantic Web Journal โ€” Description of the VIAF (Virtual International Authority File) Dataset", "locus": "Known Shortcomings", "modality": "self-description" }, "F52": { "kind": "field", "quote": "Matches between source entities is fairly conservative, so many possible matches are missed โ€ฆ Limited ability for those outside the library community to correct errors", "source": "B6", "source_label": "Semantic Web Journal โ€” Description of the VIAF (Virtual International Authority File) Dataset", "locus": "Known Shortcomings", "modality": "self-description" }, "O940-01": { "kind": "archive", "quote": "Pseudonymy is using a different name for a work whose authorial function is nonetheless traceable to the civil identity that stands behind the name. Anne Brontรซ wrote under Acton Bell. 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On names it states a linkage of pseudonyms the saved source does not, and it gives the cluster identifier as unique where the source records its fluctuation.", "deposit": null, "source_label": "Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry viaf-aio-20261101 (OBS-34cceb53f2ee, AXN:0B8C.CAPTURE.๐ŸŒ‰๐ŸŸ ๐ŸŒฑ๐Ÿ”…๐Ÿ•—โŒ)", "record": "https://www.alexanarch.org/captures/viaf-aio-20261101/", "locus": "viaf-aio-20261101, analysis", "modality": "interpretation", "date": "2026-11-01" }, "CAP-1-12": { "kind": "archive", "quote": "'VIAF' ON THE OVERVIEW โ€” THE AUTHORITY FILE AT ITS GRAIN, ORIGIN AND OPERATOR EXACT; PSEUDONYMS LINKED; THE CLUSTER IDENTIFIER GIVEN AS 'UNIQUE', WHERE THE SAVED ACCOUNT HAS IT COALESCE AND SPLIT", "deposit": null, "source_label": "Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry viaf-aio-20261101 (OBS-34cceb53f2ee, AXN:0B8C.CAPTURE.๐ŸŒ‰๐ŸŸ ๐ŸŒฑ๐Ÿ”…๐Ÿ•—โŒ)", "record": "https://www.alexanarch.org/captures/viaf-aio-20261101/", "locus": "viaf-aio-20261101, mt", "modality": "interpretation", "date": "2026-11-01" } }, "note": "The knowledge object (KO): the entry as public knowledge, each sentence sourced by the claims it lists. The compression, the field-only arm, the transcript, the delta and the kernel are in the row (links.row), which is the authority." }, "source": "operator, 2026-11-01: 'so lets get the lists, build the /non articles, then revise and finish the individual pages'; with the 23 captures: 'now we seat the captures, write the /nons - and the/nons are written as against the wikipedia pages where they exist, too, correct? - then come back and flesh out the single pages'", "stage": "composed 2026-11-01 under EA-NEGONT-02 v0.10, #1726, from the leesharks.com apparatus authorship census (CENSUS viaf); equal case, ฯ = extends. 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