Template:Authority control/doc

Description

For more details on this topic, see Authority control.

This metadata template links WikiAlpha articles to various library catalogue systems, for biographies and other topics.

This template draws its values from locally entered data.

User pages

The template may also be placed on user pages, but then data must be entered locally.

Data types

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; see also WP:ORCID)

Integrated Authority File (Gemeinsame Normdatei or GND)

LIBRIS by the National Library of Sweden (SELIBR)

University Documentation System of France (Système universitaire de documentation or SUDOC)

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)

National Diet Library (NDL)

... (30+ sources)

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

Position

As a metadata template, the Authority control template should be placed after the external links section and navigation templates, right before the categories.

Usage

As a rule of thumb: (1) don't insert the empty version, (2) if you know the sources, add them in the template using their named param.

Full 

{{Authority control |VIAF=xxxxxx |LCCN=n/xx/xxxxxx |ISNI=xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx |ORCID=xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx |GND=xxxxxx |SELIBR=xxxxxx |SUDOC=xxxxxxxxx |BNF=xxxxxx |BPN=xxxxx |RID=xxxxx |BIBSYS=xxxxx |ULAN=xxxxx |MBA=xxxxxx |NLA=xxxxxxx |NDL=xxxxxxxx}}

Blank 

{{Authority control |VIAF= |LCCN= |ISNI= |ORCID= |GND= |SELIBR= |SUDOC= |BNF= |BPN= |RID= |BIBSYS= |ULAN= |MBA= |NLA= |NDL=}}

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]
ISNI	People	International Standard Name Identifier	[3]	ISNI is a method for uniquely identifying the public identities of contributors to media content such as books, TV programmes, and newspaper articles. Please take care not to confuse ISNI and ORCID identifiers.
ORCID	People	ORCID	[4]	Authority data on researchers, academics, etc. The ID range is a subset of the ISNI range. For free text links (for example when mentioning a person on page which is not about them), it is also possible to use {{ORCID}}. Authors—including WikiAlpha editors—may obtain an ORCID by signing up at orcid.org/register. Please take care not to confuse ORCID and ISNI identifiers.
GND	All	Integrated Authority File (Gemeinsame Normdatei)	[5] [6]	Authority data on people, corporations and subjects from the German National Library (DNB)
SELIBR	People	LIBRIS	[7]	Authority data from the National Library of Sweden
SUDOC	People	Système universitaire de documentation	[8] (French)	Authority data of people listed in the general catalogue of the University Documentation System of France. Also available from English-speaking catalog (search author, click one book, click author name, take PPN= value of the URL)
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.
NDL	People	National Diet Library	[16]	Authority data listed in the catalog of the national library of Japan. Search also available via VIAF.
RKDartists	Artists	RKD'	[17]	RKDartists is an online database using a controlled vocabulary currently containing around 200,000+ names and other information about artists. Names in RKDartists may include given names, pseudonyms, variant spellings, names in multiple languages, and names that have changed over time (e.g., married names).

The following data sources are deprecated

Deprecated parameters

Deprecated parameter Scope Name Remarks Tracking Template:Red Corporations Gemeinsame Körperschaftsdatei (now part of GND) Authority data on corporations from the German National Library (Template:Red) Template:Red People Personennamendatei (now part of GND) Authority data on people from the German National Library (Template:Red) Template:Red Subjects Schlagwortnormdatei (now part of GND) Authority data on subjects from the German National Library (Template:Red)

Examples

{{Authority control |VIAF=59263727 |LCCN=n/79/113947 |ISNI=0000 0000 8138 6064 |GND=119408643 |SUDOC=066924146 |BNF=13746617f |MBA=9dd93d09-24b4-41f1-a48b-ef48b07499c3 |NDL=00620343 }} – for Alexander Graham Bell produces:

Template documentation

{{Authority control |VIAF=66861474 |LCCN=n/87/142671 |ISNI=0000 0001 0911 2808 |GND=117421863 |SUDOC=090162897 }} – for Harry Forbes Witherby produces:

Template documentation

Error reports

See the monthly error report for this template.

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
  • FAQ
• Template:Infobox book – supporting some library classification systems
• For more information:
  • Commons:Template:Authority control