ଛାଞ୍ଚ:Authority control

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Module:Authority control

Description

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

This template draws most of its values from Wikidata, but they can be overridden by locally entered data. Adding the data to Wikidata is preferable.

An empty instance of this template stays dormant in an article, until values are added to Wikidata, when it will then display them, so this template should be added to all biographies, whether or not there are authority control identifiers in Wikidata already.

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, see "local conf" list at Module:Authority control)

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

Wikidata content is used as fallback for the BNF, BPN, GND, ISNI, LCCN, MBA, NDL, NLA, ORCID, SUDOC, ULAN, and VIAF identifiers.

The template validates digits in many values (such as ISNI, ORCID, SUDOC, etc.) and shows an error if the check fails.

Wherever possible, the template also generates a link to WorldCat Identities, using VIAF or LCCN values.

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) insert the empty version, (2) click "Show preview" to see which sources are automatically pulled from Wikidata, (3a) if you know more sources, add them in the template using their named param, (3b) alternatively, consider adding them to the article's "Wikidata item" (so that all versions of Wikipedia will automatically benefit).

Empty (reliant wholly on Wikidata): {{Authority control}}

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	[୧]	International authority data from the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC)
LCCN	People	Library of Congress Control Number	[୨]	See Wikipedia:Authority control#LCCN for formatting instructions
ISNI	People	International Standard Name Identifier	[୩]	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	[୪]	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 Wikipedia 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)	[୫] [୬]	Authority data on people, corporations and subjects from the German National Library (DNB)
SELIBR	People	LIBRIS	[୭]	Authority data from the National Library of Sweden
SUDOC	People	Système universitaire de documentation	[୮] (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	[୯] (French )	Authority data of people listed in the general catalogue of the National Library of France
BPN	People	Dutch Biography Portal (Biografisch Portaal)	[୧୦]	Dutch project with material for 40,000 digitized biographies, including former colonies of the Netherlands.
RID	People	ResearcherID	[୧୧]	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	[୧୨]	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	[୧୩]	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	[୧୪]	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	[୧୫]	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	[୧୬]	Authority data listed in the catalog of the national library of Japan. Search also available via VIAF.
RKDartists	Artists	RKD'	[୧୭]	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

and will cause articles to be added to hidden tracking sub-categories of Category:Wikipedia articles with authority control information:

Deprecated parameters

Deprecated parameter	Scope	Name	Remarks	Tracking
GKD	Corporations	Gemeinsame Körperschaftsdatei (now part of GND)	Authority data on corporations from the German National Library (deprecated, please use GND)	GKD cat
PND	People	Personennamendatei (now part of GND)	Authority data on people from the German National Library (deprecated, please use GND)	PND cat
SWD	Subjects	Schlagwortnormdatei (now part of GND)	Authority data on subjects from the German National Library (deprecated, please use GND)	SWD cat

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:

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

Wikidata

The template can get its information from the following properties on Wikidata:

Parameter	Type	Property ID
VIAF	VIAF	ଭି.ଆଇ.ଏ.ଏଫ. ସୂଚକ (P214)
LCCN	LCCN	LCAuth ପରିଚୟ (P244)
ISNI	ISNI	ISNI (P213)
ORCID	ORCID	ORCID ଆଇଡି (P496)
GND	GND	GND ପରିଚୟ (P227)
SELIBR	LIBRIS	(P906)
SUDOC	SUDOC	(P269)
BNF	BNF	BnF ପରିଚୟ (P268)
BPN	BPN	(P651)
ULAN	ULAN	(P245)
MBA	MBID	ମ୍ୟୁଜିକବ୍ରେଞ୍ଜ କଳାକାର ପରିଚୟ (P434)
NLA	NLA	(P409)
NDL	NDL	NDL ପରିଚୟ (P349)
BIBSYS	BIBSYS	(P1015)
RID	RID	(P1053)
RKDartists	RKD	(P650)

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.

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:Authority control in articles based on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for Authority control

A template to link Wikipedia articles to various library catalogue systems

Template parameters[Edit template data]
Parameter		Description	Type	Status
VIAF	`VIAF`	International authority data from the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC)	Number	optional
GND	`GND` `PND`	Authority data on people, corporations and subjects from the German National Library	String	optional
LCCN	`LCCN`	Library of Congress Control Number. See [[Wikipedia:Authority control#LCCN]] for formatting instructions	Number	optional
ISNI	`ISNI`	ISNI is a method for uniquely identifying the public identities of contributors to media content such as books, TV programmes, and newspaper articles	String	optional
SELIBR	`SELIBR`	Authority data from the National Library of Sweden	String	optional
ORCID	`ORCID`	Authority data on researchers, academics, etc. The ID range has been defined as a subset of the forthcoming ISNI range	String	optional
SUDOC	`SUDOC`	Authority data of people listed in the general catalogue of the University Documentation System of France	String	optional
BNF	`BNF`	Authority data of people listed in the general catalogue of the National Library of France	String	optional
BPN	`BPN`	Dutch project with material for 40,000 digitized biographies, including former colonies of the Netherlands	Number	optional
RID	`RID`	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	String	optional
BIBSYS	`BIBSYS`	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	String	optional
ULAN	`ULAN`	ULAN is an online database using a controlled vocabulary currently containing around 293,000 names and other information about artists	String	optional
MBA	`MBA`	MusicBrainz is an open music encyclopedia that collects music metadata and makes it available to the public.	String	optional
NLA	`NLA`	Authority control number issued by the National Library of Australia.	String	optional
NDL	`NDL`	Authority control number issued by the National Diet Library (National Library of Japan).	Number	optional
RKDartists	`RKDartists`	RKDartists is an online database using a controlled vocabulary currently containing around 200,000+ names names and other information about artists	String	optional

External links

Maintenance reports

The above documentation is transcluded from ଛାଞ୍ଚ:Authority control/doc.
Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox and testcases pages.
Add categories to the /doc subpage. Subpages of this template.

Authority control databases
International	ISNI VIAF
National	France Germany Japan
Artists	MusicBrainz
Other	IdRef
Warning	Local parameters are deprecated.

Authority control databases
International	ISNI VIAF
National	Germany
Other	IdRef
Warning	Local parameters are deprecated.