---
id: "it_sbn_author_id"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["publishing"]
country: ["IT"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 90
url: "https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/it_sbn_author_id"
---

# SBN author identifier (`it_sbn_author_id`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Identifier of an author record (name authority) in the catalogue of the Servizio bibliotecario nazionale (SBN), the national network of Italian libraries coordinated by the Central Institute for the Union Catalogue (ICCU). It has ten characters, the fourth of them V, as in CFIV004372 for Galileo Galilei. Wikidata stores it as P396; the regexp follows its format constraint.

- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Publishing and print (publishing)
- Countries: Italy (IT)
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)
- Classification: identifier

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^[A-Z]{2}[A-Z0-3]V\d{6}$
```

## Examples

- `CFIV004372` — Galileo Galilei (Wikidata example)
- `CFIV017574` — Petrarch (Wikidata example)
- `BVEV016960` — Aldus Manutius (Wikidata example)
- `CFIV00437` (invalid example) — Nine characters

## Mappings

- wikidata: `P396`

## Translations

- it: Identificativo SBN dell'autore: Identificativo di dieci caratteri di un autore nell'authority file del catalogo SBN, come CFIV004372.
- ru: Идентификатор автора в каталоге SBN: Десятисимвольный идентификатор авторитетной записи об авторе в каталоге итальянских библиотек SBN.

## Sources

- wikidata: <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P396>
- doc: <https://opac.sbn.it/>
- wikipedia: <https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servizio_bibliotecario_nazionale>

## Quality

Score 90/100. Missing: detector coverage.

JSON: <https://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/it_sbn_author_id.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/IT/publishing/it_sbn_author_id.yaml>