Virtual International Authority File

Virtual International Authority File (VIAF)

Examples

• http://viaf.org/viaf/278410 Alfredo De Angelis http://isni.org/0000000115846293
• http://viaf.org/viaf/27258948 Francisco Canaro http://isni.org/0000000066363497
• http://viaf.org/viaf/37113607 Juan D'Arienzo http://isni.org/0000000059365582
• http://viaf.org/viaf/41505167 Francisco Lomuto not in VIAF http://isni.org/0000000059247842
• http://viaf.org/viaf/56618280 Carlos Gardel http://isni.org/0000000121340547
• http://viaf.org/viaf/203537 Osvaldo Fresedo http://isni.org/0000000078233569
• http://viaf.org/viaf/39574023 Carlos Di Sarli http://isni.org/0000000117591976
• http://viaf.org/viaf/29724876 Anibal Troilo http://isni.org/0000000083682705
• http://viaf.org/viaf/2500605 Osvaldo Pugliese http://isni.org/0000000059336212
• http://viaf.org/viaf/71601437 Guillermo Barbieri http://isni.org/0000000078264744
• http://viaf.org/viaf/74780864 Ignacio Corsini http://isni.org/0000000059397867
• http://viaf.org/viaf/34651811 Mercedes Simone http://isni.org/0000000059363552
• http://viaf.org/viaf/54347275 Libertad Lamarque http://isni.org/0000000120260537

Analysis

For Francisco Canaro there is only one entry and this is linked to several national libraries:

http://viaf.org/viaf/27258948/

Linking with other sources is logged:

Record ID       Action  Time
BNF|13961763    add     2009-03-03T12:03:19+00:00
DNB|135287472   add     2009-03-03T12:03:28+00:00
DNB|128933011   add     2009-03-03T12:03:29+00:00
LC|n 93079872   add     2009-03-03T12:03:35+00:00
DNB|135287472   delete  2009-05-07T09:10:57+00:00
BNE|XX1058415   add     2009-06-15T11:42:44+00:00
PTBNP|1056481   add     2009-09-21T11:33:10+00:00
SUDOC|078212065 add     2011-12-15T07:58:57+00:00
NDL|01140691    add     2012-09-21T12:24:30+00:00
WKP|Francisco_Canaro    add     2012-11-26T09:56:13+00:00
NTA|072042478   add     2012-12-19T19:11:18+00:00

In the About section there is also an ISNI : "ISNI - 0000 0000 6636 3497" (IIRC a natural person can have several ISNI, e.g. one for each pseudonym)

The IPI as found in CISAC or SADAIC is not stated.

For Mario Canaro there are two VIAF entries, similar for other brothers, and no ISNI is stated.

So VIAF offers Permalinks, but the attached records may change. Maybe VIAF will link one Permalink with another Permalink, which would increase the usefulness of linking from tango.info to VIAF.

Duplicates

• VIAF duplicates

Piazzolla hip hop

• VIAF Piazzolla hip hop

Cluster deletion

Linked from http://isni.org/0000000000996734

• http://viaf.org/viaf/49422066 redirects to 51957675
• http://viaf.org/viaf/51957675/ http://isni.org/0000000000996734
• http://viaf.org/viaf/79781645/ "This VIAF Cluster has been deleted. It is no longer part of VIAF." But it still shows http://isni.org/0000000092472646 which redirects to http://isni.org/0000000000996734
• http://viaf.org/viaf/90182794/ - no ISNI