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VIAF: The Virtual International Authority File
VIAF, implemented and hosted by OCLC, is a joint project of several national libraries plus selected regional and trans-national library agencies. The project's goal is to lower the cost and increase the utility of library authority files by matching and linking widely-used authority files and making that information available on the Web.
Participating institutions are:
- National Library of Australia
- Library and Archives Canada
- National Library of the Czech Republic
- Bibliotheca Alexandrina (Egypt)
- Flemish Public Libraries
- Denmark (DBC)-test
- Bibliothèque nationale de France
- SUDOC (France)
- Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
- Getty Research Institute
- National Széchényi Library (Hungary)
- National Library of Israel
- Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico (Italy)
- National Diet Library (Japan)
- Norway (BIBSYS)
- NUKAT Center (Poland)
- Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal
- Biblioteca Nacional de España
- National Library of Sweden
- Swiss National Library
- RERO (Switzerland)
- Library of Congress/NACO
- Biblioteca Nacional de México
- British Library
- National Agricultural Library (U.S.)
- National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
- National Library of New Zealand
- National Library of Scotland
- National Library of South Africa
- National Library of Wales
- Vatican Library
We also load files into VIAF for testing:
The search box at the top of this page searches a merged view of VIAF derived from the name authority and related bibliographic data of the participating libraries.
More information can be found at http://www.oclc.org/viaf/.