appears_in: []
depends_on: []
deprecated: false
description: The VIAF® (Virtual International Authority File) combines multiple name
  authority files into a single OCLC-hosted name authority service. The goal of the
  service is to lower the cost and increase the utility of library authority files
  by matching and linking widely-used authority files and making that information
  available on the Web.
example: '75121530'
homepage: http://viaf.org
keywords:
- centrally registered identifier
- knowledge and information systems
mappings:
  bartoc: '2053'
  fairsharing: FAIRsharing.a15ac6
  miriam: viaf
  n2t: viaf
  wikidata: P214
name: VIAF ID
namespace_in_lui: false
pattern: ^\d+$
preferred_prefix: viaf
prefix: viaf
providers:
- code: scholia
  description: Scholia is a service that creates visual scholarly profiles for topic,
    people, organizations, species, chemicals, etc using bibliographic and other information
    in Wikidata.
  homepage: https://scholia.toolforge.org/
  name: Scholia
  uri_format: https://scholia.toolforge.org/viaf/$1
- code: viaf.https
  description: A duplicate endpoint over HTTPS
  first_party: true
  homepage: http://viaf.org
  name: VIAF (https)
  uri_format: https://viaf.org/$1
publications: []
rdf_uri_format: http://viaf.org/viaf/$1
synonyms: []
uri_format: http://viaf.org/viaf/$1
