Post on 24-Feb-2016
description
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)
● the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (DNB)● the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BNF)
● and OCLC
And now including
Sample record
Also with experimental imports
Wikipedia as Authority File
● Provides disambiguation of names● With unique identifiers (URIs)
Wikidata as Super Authority File
● Since it connects many Authority Files– Which are Wikipedias
Comparison of Super Authority
Filesby size
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
Merged and migrated to Wikidata
Disagreements
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
And can view differences in
content
Label and Alias Fill by botin 49
languages
The short term implications
● Can synchronize the differences● Improve the quality of both files
● Improve the completeness of both files
Longer term implication
● Coexistence of the two?● Is it possible or desirable that Wikidata
could replace VIAF?