VIAF ID
ID viafid
DatatypeNot PIIidentifier
Identifier of a cluster in the Virtual International Authority File (VIAF), an OCLC service that links the authority records of national libraries for the same person, organization, work or place. It has 2 to 9 or 19 to 22 digits and does not start with zero. Data Commons stores it in the viafId property.
- Categories
- Objects identifiers
- Countries
- Global (not tied to a country)
- Languages
- Common to most languages
- Bioregistry
viaf- Wikidata
- P214
- Quality
- 90/100 · missing: detector coverage
- Metacrafter rules
- no detection rule yet
- Supported by tools
- no tool record lists this type yet
Regular expression
^[1-9](?:\d{1,8}|\d{18,21})$Python re syntax.
Examples
| Value | Description |
|---|---|
| 44298806 | Foncine, Jean-Louis |
| 125715126 | Cairo |
| 147680367 | California |
| 9972147907520779210008 | Cathedral of Santa Maria d'Urgell (22-digit cluster ID) |
| 0147680367 invalid | leading zero |
Translations
| Language | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| French | Identifiant VIAF | |
| Russian | Идентификатор VIAF |
Sources
- wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_International_Authority_File
- wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P214
- other: https://datacommons.org/browser/viafId
Use this record
- Page URL:
http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/viafid - JSON: API v1 · legacy shape (used by metacrafter) · Markdown (for LLMs)
- Improve it: edit
data/datatypes/any/objectids/viafid.yamlon GitHub