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Description
Template:Details3 This metadata template links Wikipedia articles to various library catalogue systems. At the moment, it is used almost exclusively in biographical articles.
- Supported authority files
- Virtual International Authority File (VIAF)
- Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN)
- International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI)
- Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID)
- Integrated Authority File (Gemeinsame Normdatei or GND)
- LIBRIS by the National Library of Sweden (SELIBR)
- National Library of France (Bibliothèque nationale de France or BNF)
- Dutch Biography Portal (Biografisch Portaal or BPN)
- ResearcherID (RID)
- BIBSYS (BIBSYS)
- Union List of Artist Names (ULAN)
- MusicBrainz Artist ID (MBA)
- National Library of Australia (NLA)
- Deprecated
- Corporate Bodies Authority File (Gemeinsame Körperschaftsdatei or GKD), now part of GND
- Name Authority File (Personennamendatei or PND), now part of GND
- Subject Headings Authority File (Schlagwortnormdatei or SWD), now part of GND
Wikidata content is used as fallback for the BNF, BPN, GND, ISNI, LCCN, MBA, ORCID, ULAN, NLA and VIAF identifiers.
Wherever possible, the template also generates a link to WorldCat Identities, using the LCCN variable. (It will shortly be possible to link using VIAF values—this is being tested by OCLC and will be activated in the template as soon as it goes live.)
Position
As a metadata template, the Authority control template should be placed after the external links section and navigation templates, right before the Persondata template.
Usage
{{Authority control |VIAF=xxxxxx |LCCN=n/xx/xxxxxx |ORCID=xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx |GND=xxxxxx |SELIBR=xxxxxx |BNF=xxxxxx |BPN=xxxxx |RID=xxxxx |BIBSYS=xxxxx |ULAN=xxxxx |MBA=xxxxxx |NLA=xxxxxxx}}
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{{Authority control |VIAF= |LCCN= |ORCID= |GND= |SELIBR= |BNF= |BPN= |RID= |BIBSYS= |ULAN= |MBA= |NLA=}}
- The following data sources are accepted
Parameter | Scope | Name | Search | Remarks |
---|---|---|---|---|
VIAF | People | Virtual International Authority File | [1] | International authority data from the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) |
LCCN | People | Library of Congress Control Number | [2] | See Wikipedia:Authority control#LCCN for formatting instructions |
ISNI | People | International Standard Name Identifier | [3] [4] | ISNI is a method for uniquely identifying the public identities of contributors to media content such as books, TV programmes, and newspaper articles. |
ORCID | People | ORCID | [5] | Authority data on researchers, academics, etc. The ID range has been defined as a subset of the forthcoming ISNI range. For free text links, it is also possible to use {{ORCID}}. Authors—including Wikipedia editors—may obtain an ORCID by signing up at orcid.org. |
GND | All | Integrated Authority File (Gemeinsame Normdatei) | [6] [7] | Authority data on people, corporations and subjects from the German National Library |
SELIBR | People | LIBRIS | [8] | Authority data from the National Library of Sweden |
BNF | People | Bibliothèque nationale de France | [9] (French) | Authority data of people listed in the general catalogue of the National Library of France |
BPN | People | Dutch Biography Portal (Biografisch Portaal) | [10] | Dutch project with material for 40,000 digitized biographies, including former colonies of the Netherlands. |
RID | People | ResearcherID | [11] | An identifying system for scientific authors. The system was introduced in January 2008 by Thomson Reuters. The combined use of the Digital Object Identifier with the ResearcherID allows for a unique association of authors and scientific articles. |
BIBSYS | People | BIBSYS | [12] | BIBSYS is a supplier of library and information systems for all Norwegian university Libraries, the National Library of Norway, college libraries, and a number of research libraries and institutions. |
ULAN | Artists | Union List of Artist Names | [13] | ULAN is an online database using a controlled vocabulary currently containing around 293,000 names and other information about artists. Names in ULAN may include given names, pseudonyms, variant spellings, names in multiple languages, and names that have changed over time (e.g., married names). |
MBA | Artists | MusicBrainz Artist ID | [14] | MusicBrainz is an open music encyclopedia that collects music metadata and makes it available to the public. |
NLA | People or groups | National Library of Australia | [15] | NLA Trove’s People and Organisation view allows the discovery of biographical and other contextual information about people and organisations. Search also available via VIAF. |
- The following data sources are deprecated
and will cause articles to be added to hidden tracking sub-categories of Category:Wikipedia articles with authority control information: Template:Collapse top
Deprecated parameter |
Scope | Name | Remarks | Tracking |
---|---|---|---|---|
GKD | Corporations | Gemeinsame Körperschaftsdatei (now part of GND) |
Authority data on corporations from the German National Library (deprecated, please use GND) | GKD cat |
PND | People | Personennamendatei (now part of GND) |
Authority data on people from the German National Library (deprecated, please use GND) | PND cat |
SWD | Subjects | Schlagwortnormdatei (now part of GND) |
Authority data on subjects from the German National Library (deprecated, please use GND) | SWD cat |
Examples
{{Authority control |VIAF=59263727 |LCCN=n/79/113947 |ISNI=0000 0000 8138 6064 |GND=119408643 |BNF=13746617f |MBA=9dd93d09-24b4-41f1-a48b-ef48b07499c3 }} – for Alexander Graham Bell produces: Script error
{{Authority control |VIAF=66861474 |LCCN=n/87/142671 |ISNI=0000 0001 0911 2808 |GND=117421863 }} – for Harry Forbes Witherby produces:Script error
Categories
The template applies the following categories:
- Specific identifiers are in subcategories of Category:Pages with authority control information
- Faulty parameters
Wikidata
The template can get its information from Wikidata:
!Parameter | Type | Property ID |
---|---|---|
VIAF | VIAF | p214 |
LCCN | LCCN | p244 |
ISNI | ISNI | p213 |
ORCID | ORCID | p496 |
GND | GND | p227 |
SELIBR | LIBRIS | p906 |
BNF | BNF | p268 |
BPN | BPN | p651 |
ULAN | ULAN | p245 |
MBA | MBID | p434 |
NLA | NLA | p409 |
The MusicBrainz Artist ID (MBID) is currently restricted to items that have occupation set to either:
or are an instance of either
If none of these is applicable, it can be forced with: {{authority control|MBA={{#Property:P434}}}} which for The Beatles would produce: Script error Note that for The beatles {{authority control}} would work out of the box already.
RID (ResearcherID) and BIBSYS do not currently have properties.
Microformat
The template wraps each UID value with the HTML markup: <span class="uid">...</span>
, which enables the first-found value to be included in an hCard microformat. For that reason, VIAF, where present, is emitted first.
See also
- Wikipedia:Authority control—editor information
- Help:Authority control—reader help
- Template:Infobox book—supporting some library classification systems
- Template:German National Library portal
- For more information:
- de:Wikipedia:Normdaten (German)
- de:Hilfe:GND (German)
- Commons:Template:Authority control
TemplateData
This is the TemplateData documentation for the template used by the new VisualEditor.
Documentation <templatedata> {
"description": "A template to link Wikipedia articles to various library catalogue systems", "params": { "VIAF": { "label": "VIAF", "description": "International authority data from the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC)", "type": "number" }, "GND": { "label": "GND", "description": "Authority data on people, corporations and subjects from the German National Library", "type": "string", "aliases": ["PND"] }, "LCCN": { "label": "LCCN", "description": "Library of Congress Control Number. See Wikipedia:Authority control#LCCN for formatting instructions", "type": "number" }, "ISNI": { "label": "ISNI", "description": "ISNI is a method for uniquely identifying the public identities of contributors to media content such as books, TV programmes, and newspaper articles", "type": "string" }, "SELIBR": { "label": "SELIBR", "description": "Authority data from the National Library of Sweden", "type": "string" }, "ORCID": { "label": "ORCID", "description": "Authority data on researchers, academics, etc. The ID range has been defined as a subset of the forthcoming ISNI range", "type": "string" }, "BNF": { "label": "BNF", "description": "Authority data of people listed in the general catalogue of the National Library of France", "type": "string" }, "BPN": { "label": "BPN", "description": "Dutch project with material for 40,000 digitized biographies, including former colonies of the Netherlands", "type": "number" }, "RID": { "label": "RID", "description": "An identifying system for scientific authors. The system was introduced in January 2008 by Thomson Reuters. The combined use of the Digital Object Identifier with the ResearcherID allows for a unique association of authors and scientific articles", "type": "string" }, "BIBSYS": { "label": "BIBSYS", "description": "BIBSYS is a supplier of library and information systems for all Norwegian university Libraries, the National Library of Norway, college libraries, and a number of research libraries and institutions", "type": "string" }, "ULAN": { "label": "ULAN", "description": "ULAN is an online database using a controlled vocabulary currently containing around 293,000 names and other information about artists", "type": "string" }, "MBA": { "label": "MBA", "description": " MusicBrainz is an open music encyclopedia that collects music metadata and makes it available to the public. ", "type": "string" }, "NLA": { "label": "NLA", "description": "Authority control number issued by the National Library of Australia. ", "type": "string" } }
} </templatedata>
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