VIAF: The Virtual International Authority File
VIAF is a joint project of the Library of Congress (LC), the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (DNB), the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF), and OCLC. The project's goal is to match and link the library authority files.
The search box at the top of this page searches a prototype of VIAF, which is derived from the personal name authority and related bibliographic data of LC, DNB, and BnF. Matches are shown as links between records (in MARC-21 998 fields).
More information can be found at the OCLC Research VIAF Project page.
Each QR-code contains the basic data on a person. It can simply be their names and e-mail addresses but can be extended to cover a complete business card including telephone numbers, faxes, hyperlinks and business address. The mail merge will include these elements: 1. Clear text: the name, e-mail and anything you want to put…