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VIAF Show and Tell Webinar Recording Now Available

 
In this interactive webinar, five OCLC Research Library Partners demonstrated how they use VIAF.

The Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) now comprises almost 20 million records from 24 different sources. In the last two months VIAF had over 70,000 visits from 147 countries/territories, with two-thirds "returning visitors." In addition, VIAF sees 6 million hits per month from automated systems such as Web harvesters or other programs retrieving VIAF information.

The "show and tell" VIAF demonstrations you'll see in this webinar recording include:

  • Using VIAF as the primary reference for LC/NACO authority work to differentiate names—Spencer Anspach, Indiana University
  • Using VIAF to create a record in Fihrist, a multi-institutional Islamic manuscript catalog, incorporating the URI to an author's VIAF page—Alasdair Watson, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
  • How VIAF helps researchers—Magda El-Sherbini, Ohio State University
  • Using VIAF to identify provenance of rare books and adding VIAF links to images of bookplates, inscriptions and other marks of ownership in Flickr—Regan Kladstrup, University of Pennsylvania
  • Using VIAF to identify issues in the VIAF matching process and how to respond and report them—Stephen Hearn, University of Minnesota

Program Officer Karen Smith-Yoshimura introduced and facilitated the session and Chief Scientist Thom Hickey fielded questions from webinar attendees.

This free webinar was open to OCLC Research Library Partners only, but the 1 hour and 13 minute recording is freely available to all on the OCLC Research website and in iTunes.

More Information

Webinar recording [.wmv]
http://www5.oclc.org/downloads/research/webinars/20111212viaf.wmv

Webinar recording [.mp4]
http://www5.oclc.org/downloads/research/webinars/20111212viaf.mp4

Webinar recording in iTunes
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=284764834

Webinar slides [.pptx]
http://www.oclc.org/research/events/20111212viaf.pdf

Learn more about VIAF
http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/viaf/default.htm

Try VIAF
http://viaf.org/

For more information:

Karen Smith-Yoshimura
Program Officer
OCLC Research
smithyok@oclc.org
+1-650-287-2141

Melissa Renspie
Senior Communications Officer
OCLC Research
renspiem@oclc.org
+1-614-761-5231

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