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Authority Addicts: The New Frontier of Authority Control on Wikidata

Authority Addicts: The New Frontier of Authority Control on Wikidata. Virtual International Authority File. A merged super authority file Algorithmically matching of entities First murmurs 1998. Virtual International Authority File. Originally between the Library of Congress (LC)

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Authority Addicts: The New Frontier of Authority Control on Wikidata

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  1. Authority Addicts:The New Frontier of Authority Control on Wikidata

  2. Virtual International Authority File A merged super authority file Algorithmically matching of entities First murmurs 1998

  3. Virtual International Authority File Originally between the Library of Congress (LC) the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (DNB) the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BNF) and OCLC

  4. And now including

  5. Sample record

  6. Also with experimental imports

  7. Wikipedia as Authority File Provides disambiguation of names With unique identifiers (URIs)

  8. Wikidata as Super Authority File Since it connects many Authority Files Which are Wikipedias

  9. Comparison of Super Authority Filesby size

  10. Matching VIAF and Wikipedia German manual efforts Matched PND and VIAF and others to de.wiki ~200,000 matches VIAF algorithm Matched VIAF to en.wiki ~250,000 matches French, Italian, Spanish, Polish and Japanese manual efforts

  11. Merged and migrated to Wikidata

  12. Disagreements

  13. Quality Assurance In traditional AC inaccuracies could be reported. Wait and wait. Now, disagreement lead to investigation And direct resolution on Wikidata This is a major benefit of Wikidata

  14. And can view differences in content

  15. Label and Alias Fill by botin 49 languages

  16. The short term implications Can synchronize the differences Improve the quality of both files Improve the completeness of both files

  17. Longer term implication Coexistence of the two? Is it possible or desirable that Wikidata could replace VIAF?

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