Virtual International Authority File (VIAF)

• Search for authority data by keyword, local name, preferred name form, title, source, or control number of source records and retrieve authority records and relationships between authority records from different sources
• Link directly to authority records based on data from contributors worldwide

What you get

• Summary information from authority records as well as relationships between records from different sources
• Authority records in different formats from several national libraries.

Who can use it

Non-commercial Use

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Query protocols

SRU, Open Search

Record formats

RSS, RDF, MARC21, UNIMARC, VIAF XML format, HTML

Frequency of Update

Monthly

Base Service URL

http://www.viaf.org