Wikipedia:Authority control integration proposal: Difference between revisions

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The current proposal focuses on biographies, although this may be extended in future to cover other topics, and is built around the use of data from [[VIAF]], a composite system bringing together several major authority files. VIAF algorithmically matches and clusters entries from the individual authority files, and uses data scraped from Wikipedia to aid the process; as a result, there have already been a large number of Wikipedia-VIAF matched pairs identified and this provides a very effective springboard to work from.

The proposal was originally written up here, and [[Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 89 (section Authority Control Integration)|discussed on the Village Pump [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)&oldid=499166049#Authority_Control_Integration here]]. It has since been updated to include some of the feedback and commentary received during the discussions. While the Village Pump discussion was broadly favourable, it has been formally listed as an RFC in order to ensure clear support from the community before implementation later in 2012.

This plan is being coordinated by [[User:Maximiliankleinoclc|Max Klein]], the Wikipedian in Residence at [[OCLC]], and [[User:Andrew Gray|Andrew Gray]], the Wikipedian in Residence at the British Library. OCLC are the central operating group for VIAF, and have offered to provide technical support for the matching process. If you would like to help work on it, please [[Wikipedia talk:Authority control integration project|let us know]].