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“VIAF: strengthen your project with trustworthy data”

Monday 25^th February, 13.30 – 17.30 at the Palais des Congrès

The aim of this workshop is to increase participant awareness and knowledge of current, possible roles and uses of VIAF in the international data exchange ecosystem. VIAF is regarded as a threshold into the World Wide Web for library authority data. VIAF allows authority data to be used by projects not necessarily focused on the library community and to be enriched and consolidated by these projects. So, VIAF becomes the common factor of and a hub for different projects for various uses and allows these projects to be interoperable, which is very important in a linked data-oriented perspective.

VIAF has been launched as a research project as well as a tool useful for cataloguing. Nowadays, the research aspect remains a main issue for VIAF, which is implemented by VIAF itself or by various projects around it; but the possible VIAF data uses have been increasingly widened. Consequently, the workshop is focused on the topic of roles of authority data, e.g. trustworthy data, with the background of dynamic data, coming in and out of the library world.

13.00 - 13.30	Light refreshments
	Welcome and Introduction
13.30 – 13.45	The Current State of VIAF - Thom Hickey, Chief Scientist, OCLC
13.45 – 14.00	Governance and Orientations for VIAF in the Future Vincent Boulet - VIAF Council Chair, BnF
Roundtable Sessions – moderated by Françoise Bourdon BnF , Ted Fons, Executive Director, OCLC
14.00 – 14.45	Re-using VIAF Data
	SNAC & NAAC Social Network and Archival Context & National Archival Authorities Cooperative Daniel Pitti, SNAC Project Director, Assoc Director of Institute for Advanced Technologies in the Humanities
	ISNI International Standard Name Identifier - Janifer Gatenby, EMEA Program Manager Metadata, OCLC Pauline Chougnet, BnF, ISNI Quality Team
	Wikipedia - Max Klein, Wikipedia in residence in OCLC
	Followed by Panel or Audience Questions
14.45 – 15.15	VIAF Partners
	BnF Pauline Chougnet, Authority Data Expert in charge of ISNI
	DNB Barbara Pfeifer, Authority Data Expert
	Followed by Panel or Audience Questions
15.15 – 15.45	Refreshment Break
15.45 – 16.30	Panel Discussion How can VIAF be improved Main issues for VIAF, and projects re-using VIAF data Improving data by confrontation Panel Questions
16.30 – 17.15	Open Discussion Trustworthy data – what does it mean? Increasing role of the authority data Data Policy, Data Privacy Dynamic Data (library data and external data) Open data and trustworthy data (contradiction or opportunity) Next Steps for VIAF Other Issues
17.15 – 17.30	Conclusions and Follow Up - Vincent Boulet, VIAF Council Chair, BnF