VIAF: the clusters JudaicaLink uses
The clusters of the Virtual International Authority File (VIAF, OCLC) that JudaicaLink uses: every cluster our datasets or the other authority datasets link, with its names, life dates, class and the records of the libraries and knowledge bases it brings together (GND, Library of Congress, Wikidata, ISNI, BnF and others). Made from the yearly VIAF dump.
VIAF clusters the authority records of national libraries and other sources that describe the same person,
organisation, place or work. The clustering is automated and, as a whole, reliable; individual clusters can join
records of different entities or split one entity into several clusters. JudaicaLink links its records to VIAF in the
linkset ls-viaf, unless the life dates contradict (decision 0029).
| Kind: | Authority data |
|---|---|
| Method: | Converted |
| Source: | https://viaf.org/en/viaf/data |
| Example: | http://data.judaicalink.org/data/viaf/54984961 |
| URI namespaces: | http://data.judaicalink.org/data/viaf/ |
| Maintained by: | Kai Eckert |
| License: |
ODC-By 1.0
Please credit: VIAF (Virtual International Authority File), OCLC Licence as stated by the source |
| Generator: | generators/viaf (how every version was made) |
| All locations: | Where the files of this dataset are (data finder) |
Versions
2026-10-19 stable · Kai Eckert
Made in the cascade of the authority datasets of 2026-10-19 (decisions 0029, 0032).
| File | Size | Triples | SHA-256 |
|---|---|---|---|
| viaf-selection.tsv.gz | 2.3 MB | 846baaf184f8… |
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| viaf.ttl.gz | 22.8 MB | 2,968,180 | efa37ab23f49… |
| viaf-meta.ttl.gz | 2.7 kB | 80 | fa7dffb00a87… |
Changelog
- 2026-10-19 (version 2026-10-19), Kai Eckert: First version: the 213,653 VIAF clusters (dump 2024-08-04) our datasets and the other authority datasets link; BnF links without an identifier (http://data.bnf.fr/#foaf:Person) left out.
