VIAF: The Virtual International Authority File

VIAF, implemented and hosted by OCLC, is a joint project of several national libraries plus selected regional and trans-national library agencies. The project's goal 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.

Participating institutions are:

• National Library of Australia
• Library and Archives Canada
• National Library of the Czech Republic
• Bibliotheca Alexandrina (Egypt)
• Flemish Public Libraries
• Bibliothèque nationale de France
• SUDOC (France)
• Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
• Getty Research Institute
• National Széchényi Library (Hungary)
• National Library of Israel
• Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico (Italy)
• NUKAT Center (Poland)
• Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal
• Biblioteca Nacional de España
• National Library of Sweden
• Swiss National Library
• RERO (Switzerland)
• Library of Congress/NACO
• Biblioteca National de México
• British Library
• National Agricultural Library (U.S.)
• National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
• National Library of New Zealand
• National Library of Scotland
• National Library of South Africa
• National Library of Wales
• Vatican Library

We also load files into VIAF for testing:

• Russian State Library-test
• Norway (BIBSYS)-test