VIAF (The Virtual International Authority File) – http://viaf.org

Abstract

Namely: 1° Use URIs to name (identify) things; 2° Use HTTP URIs so that these things can be looked up; 3° Provide useful information about what a name identifies when it's looked up, using open standards such as RDF, SPARQL, etc; 4° Refer to other things using their HTTP URI-based names when publishing data on the Web. 2 K. F. GRACY, "Archival description and linked data: a preliminary study of opportunities and implementation challenges",

Characteristics of Korean personal names

“…Within the library field, authority control is being performed in order to disambiguate author name, where instances of one author being published under differing names are aligned under one heading chosen as an authoritative form that is then linked to the various alternative name forms (Hu, Lo, & Tam, ; Library of Congress, ; Loesch, ; Mak, ; Maxwell, ; Naito, ; Scoville, Johnson, & McConnell, ; Tillett, ). Meanwhile, within the computer science field algorithms are being developed to identify single authors published under various differently written names and different authors with identical names (Anderson & Carballo, ; Binongo, ; Feitelson, ; Han, Zha, & Giles, ).…”

An Instrument for Merging of Bibliographic Databases

“…The problem of merging authority and bibliographic records is considered in this paper. We use some principles generated in VIAF (Virtual International Authority File) [1]. For example, we use Extended Authority Records (EARs), try to account indirect information about person etc.…”

4. Using Linked Library Data in Working Research Notes

“…Each set contained URIs that had been asserted to refer to the same entity. For example, when queried with the name "Emma Goldman," the first set of URIs returned by the co-reference service includes the identifiers for Emma Goldman from VIAF (Loesch 2011) and Freebase (Bollacker et al 2008). For each set in the response, each URI in the set was dereferenced and the resulting data was examined.…”