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Links to the VIAF clusters

Every JudaicaLink record that refers to a VIAF cluster, linked to the JudaicaLink record of the cluster in the dataset viaf, unless the life dates or the classes of the two contradict.

The links rely on the VIAF numbers our datasets and the other authority datasets state. VIAF clusters the records of many libraries automatically; JudaicaLink gives it the benefit of the doubt and leaves a link out only when the record and the cluster both give a year of birth (or of death) more than one year apart, or when one is a person and the other a work (decision 0029). A number the dataset viaf does not have (a cluster merged or made after the dump) is left out. These links are what joins the records of different datasets on the entity pages.

Kind:Linkset
Method: Deterministic
Example:http://data.judaicalink.org/data/nli/record/viaf-54984961
Maintained by:Kai Eckert
License: CC0 CC0
Generator:generators/ls-viaf (how every version was made)
All locations:Where the files of this dataset are (data finder)

Versions

2026-11-11 stable · Kai Eckert
FileSizeTriplesSHA-256
ls-viaf.ttl.gz 5.0 MB 485,310 ed080b7d4d27…
ls-viaf-meta.ttl.gz 2.7 kB 138 61629d5f14ab…
2026-10-26 older · Kai Eckert

Made in the cascade of the authority datasets of 2026-10-26 (decisions 0029, 0032).

FileSizeTriplesSHA-256
ls-viaf.ttl.gz 5.0 MB 485,040 54ed2c4b423b…
ls-viaf-meta.ttl.gz 2.7 kB 135 5d0b720befe8…
2026-10-19 older · Kai Eckert

Made in the cascade of the authority datasets of 2026-10-19 (decisions 0029, 0032).

FileSizeTriplesSHA-256
ls-viaf.ttl.gz 5.0 MB 485,579 b3177010d107…
ls-viaf-meta.ttl.gz 2.8 kB 147 a4ff97994799…

Changelog

  • 2026-11-11 (version 2026-11-11), Kai Eckert: Made again from the cascade of 2026-11-11 (inputs:cascade/2026-11-11) on the stable versions of that day (geo-enriched, records-normalized, ep and conflicts 2026-11-10 new).
  • 2026-10-26 (version 2026-10-26), Kai Eckert: New version in the cascade of 2026-10-26: with the VIAF and GeoNames identifiers of footprints 2026-10-26 (from the Footprints API), without the records only the withdrawn 2014links and the former footprints version led to.
  • 2026-10-19 (version 2026-10-19), Kai Eckert: First version: 485,579 links to the VIAF clusters; left out where the years of birth or death contradict (4,275), the classes contradict (37), and links of units below the quality threshold (footprints, geo-coordinates).
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