WorldCat Identities ID
ID worldcat_identities_id
DatatypeNot PIIidentifierDraft
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Key of a name page in WorldCat Identities, a retired OCLC research service that summarized the works by and about a person, organization or place. OCLC stopped updating it in July 2022 and replaced it with WorldCat Entities. The key is a prefix and a value - lccn- with a Library of Congress name authority number, viaf- with a VIAF ID, or np-, nc- or ns- with other text. Data Commons still stores it in the worldcatIdentitiesId property, and older datasets keep it.
- Categories
- Objects identifiers
- Countries
- Global (not tied to a country)
- Languages
- Common to most languages
- Quality
- 80/100 · missing: mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), detector coverage
- Metacrafter rules
- no detection rule yet
- Supported by tools
- no tool record lists this type yet
Regular expression
^(?:viaf-\d+|lccn-n[a-z]?[0-9-]+|n[cps]-.+)$Python re syntax.
Examples
| Value | Description |
|---|---|
| lccn-n79041717 | California |
| lccn-n91128701 | Belarus |
| lccn-n78-95332 | William Shakespeare |
| viaf-136244923 | Aqua, skyscraper in Chicago |
| n79041717 invalid | bare Library of Congress name authority number without the lccn- prefix |
Translations
| Language | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| French | Identifiant WorldCat Identities | |
| Russian | Идентификатор WorldCat Identities |
Sources
- doc: https://www.oclc.org/research/areas/data-science/identities.html
- other: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Properties_for_deletion/P7859
- other: https://datacommons.org/browser/worldcatIdentitiesId
Use this record
- Page URL:
http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/worldcat_identities_id - JSON: API v1 · legacy shape (used by metacrafter) · Markdown (for LLMs)
- Improve it: edit
data/datatypes/any/objectids/worldcat_identities_id.yamlon GitHub