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{{lua|Module:Authority control}}
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{{Uses Wikidata|section=Wikidata}}
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== Description ==
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{{details3|[[Authority control]] and [[Wikipedia:Authority control]]|this topic}}
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This metadata template links Wikipedia articles to various library catalogue systems, for biographies and other topics.
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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.
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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.
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=== User pages ===
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The template may also be placed on user pages, but then data must be entered locally.
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== Data types ==
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; Supported authority files:
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: [[Virtual International Authority File]] (VIAF)
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: [[Library of Congress Control Number]] (LCCN)
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: [[International Standard Name Identifier]] (ISNI)
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: [[ORCID|Open Researcher and Contributor ID]] (ORCID; see also [[WP:ORCID]])
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: [[Integrated Authority File]] (''{{lang|de|Gemeinsame Normdatei}}'' or GND)
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: [[LIBRIS]] by the [[National Library of Sweden]] (SELIBR)
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: [[Système universitaire de documentation|University Documentation System of France]] (''{{lang|fr|Système universitaire de documentation}}'' or SUDOC)
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: [[Bibliothèque nationale de France|National Library of France]] (''{{lang|fr|Bibliothèque nationale de France}}'' or BNF)
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: [[Biografisch Portaal|Dutch Biography Portal]] (''{{lang|nl|Biografisch Portaal}}'' or BPN)
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: [[ResearcherID]] (RID)
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: [[BIBSYS]] (BIBSYS)
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: [[Union List of Artist Names]] (ULAN)
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: [[MusicBrainz|MusicBrainz Artist ID]] (MBA)
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: [[National Library of Australia]] (NLA)
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: [[National Diet Library]] (NDL)
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: ... (30+ sources, see "local conf" list at [[Module:Authority control]])
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; Deprecated:
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: [[Corporate Bodies Authority File]] (''{{lang|de|Gemeinsame Körperschaftsdatei}}'' or GKD), now part of GND
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: [[Name Authority File]] (''{{lang|de|Personennamendatei}}'' or PND), now part of GND
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: [[Subject Headings Authority File]] (''{{lang|de|Schlagwortnormdatei}}'' or SWD), now part of GND
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Wikidata content is used as fallback for the BNF, BPN, GND, ISNI, LCCN, MBA, NDL, NLA, ORCID, SUDOC, ULAN, and VIAF identifiers.
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The template validates digits in many values (such as ISNI, ORCID, SUDOC, etc.<!--see module source-->) and shows an error if the check fails.
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Wherever possible, the template also generates a link to [[WorldCat Identities]], using the LCCN variable. (It will shortly ("shortly" as stated here on 1 October 2012) be possible to link using VIAF values—this is being tested by OCLC and will be activated in the template as soon as it goes live.)
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== Position ==
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{{See also|Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Layout#Standard appendices and footers{{!}}Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Layout}}
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As a metadata template, the Authority control template should be placed after the [[Wikipedia:External links|external links]] section and [[Wikipedia:Navigation templates|navigation templates]], right before the categories.
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==Usage==
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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).
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;Empty (reliant wholly on Wikidata) : <code><nowiki>{{Authority control}}</nowiki></code>
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;Full : <code><nowiki>{{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}}</nowiki></code>
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;Blank : <code><nowiki>{{Authority control |VIAF= |LCCN= |ISNI= |ORCID= |GND= |SELIBR= |SUDOC= |BNF= |BPN= |RID= |BIBSYS= |ULAN= |MBA= |NLA= |NDL=}}</nowiki></code>
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;The following data sources are accepted:
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{| class="wikitable"
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|-
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! Parameter || Scope || Name || Search || Remarks
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|-
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| VIAF
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| People
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| [[Virtual International Authority File]]
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| [http://viaf.org/]
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| International authority data from the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC)
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|-
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| LCCN
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| People
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| [[Library of Congress Control Number]]
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| [http://authorities.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&PAGE=First]
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| See [[Wikipedia:Authority control#LCCN]] for formatting instructions
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|-
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| ISNI
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| People
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| [[International Standard Name Identifier]]
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| [http://isni.org/search]
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| 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.'''
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|-
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| ORCID
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| People
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| [[ORCID]]
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| [https://orcid.org/]
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| 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 {{tl|ORCID}}. Authors—including Wikipedia editors—may obtain an ORCID by signing up at [http://www.orcid.org/ orcid.org]. '''Please take care not to confuse ORCID and ISNI identifiers.'''
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|-
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| GND
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| All
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| [[Integrated Authority File]] (''{{lang|de|Gemeinsame Normdatei}}'')
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| [http://www.dnb.de/EN/Home/home_node.html] [http://swb.bsz-bw.de/DB=2.104/SET=4/TTL=1/LNG=EN/START_WELCOME?retrace=0]
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| Authority data on people, corporations and subjects from the [[German National Library]] (DNB)
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|-
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| SELIBR
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| People
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| [[LIBRIS]]
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| [http://libris.kb.se/]
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| Authority data from the [[National Library of Sweden]]
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|-
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| SUDOC
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| People
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| {{lang|fr|[[Système universitaire de documentation]]}}
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| [http://www.idref.fr/autorites/autorites.html]<!--IdRef direct interface--> {{fr icon}}
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| Authority data of people listed in the general catalogue of the University Documentation System of France. Also available from [http://www.sudoc.abes.fr/xslt//DB=2.1/SET=2/TTL=1/LNG=EN/ English-speaking catalog] (search author, click one book, click author name, take PPN= value of the URL)
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|-
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| BNF
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| People
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| {{lang|fr|[[Bibliothèque nationale de France]]}}
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| [http://catalogue.bnf.fr/jsp/recherche_combinee_tout.jsp?host=catalogue] {{fr icon}}
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| Authority data of people listed in the general catalogue of the National Library of France
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|-
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| BPN
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| People
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| [[Biografisch Portaal|Dutch Biography Portal]] (''{{lang|nl|Biografisch Portaal}}'')
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| [http://www.biografischportaal.nl/en/]
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| Dutch project with material for 40,000 digitized biographies, including former colonies of the Netherlands.
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|-
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| RID
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| People
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| [[ResearcherID]]
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| [http://www.researcherid.com/ViewProfileSearch.action]
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| 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.
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| Scopus
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| People
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| [[Scopus]]
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| ''Login required''
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| SciVerse Scopus is a bibliographic database containing abstracts and citations for academic journal articles. It covers nearly 19,500 titles from over 5,000 international publishers, of which 16,500 are peer-reviewed journals in the scientific, technical, medical, and social sciences (including arts and humanities).-->
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|-
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| BIBSYS
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| People
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| [[BIBSYS]]
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| [http://ask.bibsys.no/ask/action/smpsearch]
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| 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.
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|-
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| ULAN
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| Artists
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| [[Union List of Artist Names]]
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| [http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/ulan/index.html]
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| 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).
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|-
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| MBA
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| Artists
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| [[MusicBrainz|MusicBrainz Artist ID]]
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| [https://musicbrainz.org/search]
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| MusicBrainz is an open music encyclopedia that collects music metadata and makes it available to the public.
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|-
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| NLA
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| People or groups
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| [[National Library of Australia]]
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| [//trove.nla.gov.au/people]
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| NLA Trove’s People and Organisation view allows the discovery of biographical and other contextual information about people and organisations. Search also available via [http://viaf.org VIAF].
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|-
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| NDL
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| People
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| [[National Diet Library]]
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| [http://iss.ndl.go.jp/?locale=en]
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| Authority data listed in the catalog of the national library of Japan. Search also available via [http://viaf.org VIAF].
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|-
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| RKDartists
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| Artists
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| [[Netherlands Institute for Art History#Online artist pages|RKD]]'
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| [https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/record?query]
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| 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).
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|}
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;The following data sources are '''deprecated'''
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and will cause articles to be added to hidden tracking sub-categories of [[:Category:Wikipedia articles with authority control information]]:
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{{Collapse top|title=Deprecated parameters}}
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{| class="wikitable"
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|-
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! Deprecated<br />parameter
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! Scope
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! style="width:17em" | Name
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! Remarks
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! Tracking
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|-
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| {{red|GKD}}
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| Corporations
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| {{lang|de|[[Gemeinsame Körperschaftsdatei]]}}<br />(now part of GND)
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| Authority data on corporations from the German National Library ({{red|'''deprecated''', please use GND}})
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| [[:Category:Wikipedia articles with deprecated authority control identifiers (GKD)|GKD cat]]
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|-
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| {{red|PND}}
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| People
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| {{lang|de|[[Personennamendatei]]}}<br />(now part of GND)
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| Authority data on people from the German National Library ({{red|'''deprecated''', please use GND}})
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| [[:Category:Wikipedia articles with deprecated authority control identifiers (PND)|PND cat]]
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|-
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| {{red|SWD}}
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| Subjects
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| {{lang|de|[[Schlagwortnormdatei]]}}<br />(now part of GND)
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| Authority data on subjects from the German National Library ({{red|'''deprecated''', please use GND}})
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| [[:Category:Wikipedia articles with deprecated authority control identifiers (SWD)|SWD cat]]
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|}
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{{collapse bottom}}
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==Examples==
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<tt><nowiki>{{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 }}</nowiki></tt> – for [[Alexander Graham Bell]] produces:
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{{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 }}
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<tt><nowiki>{{Authority control |VIAF=66861474 |LCCN=n/87/142671 |ISNI=0000 0001 0911 2808 |GND=117421863 |SUDOC=090162897 }}</nowiki></tt> – for [[Harry Forbes Witherby]] produces: {{Authority control |VIAF=66861474 |LCCN=n/87/142671 |ISNI=0000 0001 0911 2808 |GND=117421863 |SUDOC=090162897 }}
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== Categories ==
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The template applies the following categories:
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*Specific identifiers are in subcategories of [[:Category:Pages with authority control information]]
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* Faulty parameters are in [[:Category:Wikipedia articles with faulty authority control information]]
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*Articles and categories transcluding this template with explicit parameters (not loaded from WikiData)
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** [[:Category:Pages using authority control with parameters‎]]
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==Wikidata==
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The template can get its information from the following properties on [[Wikidata]]:
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{| class="wikitable"
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|-
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!Parameter!!Type!!Property ID
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|-
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||VIAF||[[Virtual International Authority File|VIAF]]||[[d:Property:p214|p214]]
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|-
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||LCCN||[[Library of Congress Control Number|LCCN]]||[[d:Property:p244|p244]]
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|-
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||ISNI||[[International Standard Name Identifier|ISNI]]||[[d:Property:p213|p213]]
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|-
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||ORCID||[[ORCID]]||[[d:Property:p496|p496]]
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|-
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||GND||[[Integrated Authority File|GND]]||[[d:Property:p227|p227]]
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|-
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||SELIBR||[[LIBRIS]]||[[d:Property:p906|p906]]
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|-
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||SUDOC||[[Système universitaire de documentation|SUDOC]]||[[d:Property:p269|p269]]
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|-
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||BNF||[[Bibliothèque nationale de France|BNF]]||[[d:Property:p268|p268]]
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|-
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||BPN||[[Biografisch Portaal|BPN]]||[[d:Property:p651|p651]]
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|-
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||ULAN||[[Union List of Artist Names|ULAN]]||[[d:Property:p245|p245]]
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|-
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||MBA||[[MusicBrainz|MBID]]||[[d:Property:P434|p434]]
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|-
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|NLA||[[National Library of Australia|NLA]]||[[d:Property:P409|p409]]
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|-
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|NDL||[[National Diet Library|NDL]]||[[d:Property:P349|p349]]
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|-
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|BIBSYS||[[BIBSYS]]||[[d:Property:P1015|p1015]]
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|-
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|RID||[[ResearcherID|RID]]||[[d:Property:P1053|p1053]]
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|-
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|RKDartists||[[Netherlands Institute for Art History#Online artist pages|RKD]]||[[d:Property:P1053|P650]]
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|}
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The MusicBrainz Artist ID (MBID) is currently restricted to items that have [[d:Property:p106|occupation]] set to either:
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* [[d:q36834|composer]]
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* [[d:q158852|conductor]]
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* [[d:q10816969|club DJ]]
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* [[d:q130857|DJ]]
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* [[d:q639669|musician]]
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* [[d:q2252262|rapper]]
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* [[d:q183945|record producer]]
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* [[d:q177220|singer]]
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* [[d:q488205|singer-songwriter]]
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or are an [[d:Property:p31|instance of]] either
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* [[d:q215380|band]] or
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* [[d:q5741069|rock band]].
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If none of these is applicable, it can be forced with: <nowiki>{{Authority control |MBA={{#Property:P434}} }}</nowiki> which for [[The Beatles]] would produce:
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{{Authority control |MBA=b10bbbfc-cf9e-42e0-be17-e2c3e1d2600d }}
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Note that for The Beatles <nowiki>{{Authority control}}</nowiki> would work out of the box already.
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== Microformat ==
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The template wraps each UID value with the [[HTML]] markup: <code><nowiki><span class="uid">...</span></nowiki></code>, which enables the first-found value to be included in an [[hCard]] [[microformat]]. For that reason, VIAF, where present, is emitted first.
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==See also==
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* [[Wikipedia:Authority control]]—editor information
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** [[Wikipedia:Authority control integration proposal/FAQ|FAQ]]
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* [[Help:Authority control]]—reader help
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* [[Template:Infobox book]]—supporting some [[library classification]] systems
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* [[Template:German National Library portal]]
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* For more information:
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** {{lang|de|[[:de:Wikipedia:Normdaten]]}} {{De icon}}
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** {{lang|de|[[:de:Hilfe:GND]]}} {{De icon}}
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** [[:Commons:Template:Authority control]]
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== TemplateData ==
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{{TemplateDataHeader}}
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<templatedata>
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{
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        "description": "A template to link Wikipedia articles to various library catalogue systems",
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        "params": {
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                "VIAF": {
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                        "label": "VIAF",
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                        "description": "International authority data from the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC)",
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                        "type": "number"
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                },
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                "GND": {
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                        "label": "GND",
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                        "description": "Authority data on people, corporations and subjects from the German National Library",
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                        "type": "string",
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                        "aliases": ["PND"]
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                },
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                "LCCN": {
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                        "label": "LCCN",
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                        "description": "Library of Congress Control Number.  See [[Wikipedia:Authority control#LCCN]] for formatting instructions",
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                        "type": "number"
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                },
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                "ISNI": {
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                        "label": "ISNI",
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                        "description": "ISNI is a method for uniquely identifying the public identities of contributors to media content such as books, TV programmes, and newspaper articles",
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                        "type": "string"
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                },
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                "SELIBR": {
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                        "label": "SELIBR",
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                        "description": "Authority data from the National Library of Sweden",
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                        "type": "string"
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                },
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                "ORCID": {
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                        "label": "ORCID",
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                        "description": "Authority data on researchers, academics, etc. The ID range has been defined as a subset of the forthcoming ISNI range",
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                        "type": "string"
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                },
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                "SUDOC": {
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                        "label": "SUDOC",
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                        "description": "Authority data of people listed in the general catalogue of the University Documentation System of France",
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                        "type": "string"
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                },
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                "BNF": {
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                        "label": "BNF",
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                        "description": "Authority data of people listed in the general catalogue of the National Library of France",
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                        "type": "string"
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                },
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                "BPN": {
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                        "label": "BPN",
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                        "description": "Dutch project with material for 40,000 digitized biographies, including former colonies of the Netherlands",
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                        "type": "number"
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                },
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                "RID": {
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                        "label": "RID",
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                        "description": "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",
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                        "type": "string"
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                },
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                "BIBSYS": {
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                        "label": "BIBSYS",
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                        "description": "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",
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                        "type": "string"
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                },
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                "ULAN": {
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                        "label": "ULAN",
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                        "description": "ULAN is an online database using a controlled vocabulary currently containing around 293,000 names and other information about artists",
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                        "type": "string"
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                },
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                "MBA": {
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                        "label": "MBA",
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                        "description": " MusicBrainz is an open music encyclopedia that collects music metadata and makes it available to the public. ",
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                        "type": "string"
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                },
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                "NLA": {
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                        "label": "NLA",
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                        "description": "Authority control number issued by the National Library of Australia. ",
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                        "type": "string"
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                },
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                "NDL": {
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                        "label": "NDL",
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                        "description": "Authority control number issued by the National Diet Library (National Library of Japan). ",
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                        "type": "number"
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                },
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                "RKDartists": {
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                        "label": "RKDartists",
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                        "description": "RKDartists is an online database using a controlled vocabulary currently containing around 200,000+ names names and other information about artists",
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                        "type": "string"
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                }
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        }
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}
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== External links ==
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* [//toolserver.org/~magnus/catscan_rewrite.php?categories=Wikipedia+articles+with+authority+control+information&ns%5B10%5D=1 All template-namespace pages using authority control]
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* [//toolserver.org/~jarry/templatecount/index.php?lang=en&namespace=10&name=authority+control Number of transclusions]
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* [//tools.wmflabs.org/kasparbot/ac.php?select-project-enwiki=1 Authority control validator] provided by [[User:KasparBot|KasparBot]]
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Revision as of 02:33, 3 March 2016

Template:Uses Wikidata Template:Tracks Wikidata

Description

Template:Details3 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 the LCCN variable. (It will shortly ("shortly" as stated here on 1 October 2012) be possible to link using VIAF values—this is being tested by OCLC and will be activated in the template as soon as it goes live.)

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 [1] International authority data from the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC)
LCCN People Library of Congress Control Number [2] See Wikipedia:Authority control#LCCN for formatting instructions
ISNI People International Standard Name Identifier [3] 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 [4] 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. Please take care not to confuse ORCID and ISNI identifiers.
GND All Integrated Authority File (Gemeinsame Normdatei) [5] [6] Authority data on people, corporations and subjects from the German National Library (DNB)
SELIBR People LIBRIS [7] Authority data from the National Library of Sweden
SUDOC People Système universitaire de documentation [8] Template:Fr icon 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 [9] Template:Fr icon Authority data of people listed in the general catalogue of the National Library of France
BPN People Dutch Biography Portal (Biografisch Portaal) [10] Dutch project with material for 40,000 digitized biographies, including former colonies of the Netherlands.
RID People ResearcherID [11] 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 [12] 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 [13] 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 [14] 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 [15] 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 [16] Authority data listed in the catalog of the national library of Japan. Search also available via VIAF.
RKDartists Artists RKD' [17] 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:

Categories

The template applies the following categories:

Wikidata

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

Parameter Type Property ID
VIAF VIAF p214
LCCN LCCN p244
ISNI ISNI p213
ORCID ORCID p496
GND GND p227
SELIBR LIBRIS p906
SUDOC SUDOC p269
BNF BNF p268
BPN BPN p651
ULAN ULAN p245
MBA MBID p434
NLA NLA p409
NDL NDL p349
BIBSYS BIBSYS p1015
RID RID p1053
RKDartists RKD P650

The MusicBrainz Artist ID (MBID) is currently restricted to items that have occupation set to either:

or are an instance of either

If none of these is applicable, it can be forced with: {{Authority control |MBA={{#Property:P434}} }} which for The Beatles would produce:

Note that for The Beatles {{Authority control}} would work out of the box already.

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.

See also

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData documentation for this template used by VisualEditor and other tools; see the monthly parameter usage report for this template.

TemplateData for Authority control

A template to link Wikipedia articles to various library catalogue systems

Template parameters

ParameterDescriptionTypeStatus
VIAFVIAF

International authority data from the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC)

Numberoptional
GNDGND PND

Authority data on people, corporations and subjects from the German National Library

Stringoptional
LCCNLCCN

Library of Congress Control Number. See [[Wikipedia:Authority control#LCCN]] for formatting instructions

Numberoptional
ISNIISNI

ISNI is a method for uniquely identifying the public identities of contributors to media content such as books, TV programmes, and newspaper articles

Stringoptional
SELIBRSELIBR

Authority data from the National Library of Sweden

Stringoptional
ORCIDORCID

Authority data on researchers, academics, etc. The ID range has been defined as a subset of the forthcoming ISNI range

Stringoptional
SUDOCSUDOC

Authority data of people listed in the general catalogue of the University Documentation System of France

Stringoptional
BNFBNF

Authority data of people listed in the general catalogue of the National Library of France

Stringoptional
BPNBPN

Dutch project with material for 40,000 digitized biographies, including former colonies of the Netherlands

Numberoptional
RIDRID

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

Stringoptional
BIBSYSBIBSYS

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

Stringoptional
ULANULAN

ULAN is an online database using a controlled vocabulary currently containing around 293,000 names and other information about artists

Stringoptional
MBAMBA

MusicBrainz is an open music encyclopedia that collects music metadata and makes it available to the public.

Stringoptional
NLANLA

Authority control number issued by the National Library of Australia.

Stringoptional
NDLNDL

Authority control number issued by the National Diet Library (National Library of Japan).

Numberoptional
RKDartistsRKDartists

RKDartists is an online database using a controlled vocabulary currently containing around 200,000+ names names and other information about artists

Stringoptional

External links

Maintenance reports