Karen, The URIs you gave get me to webpages *about* the Declaration of Independence. I'm sure it's just a copy/paste mistake, but in this context you want the exact right URIs of course. And by "better" I guess you meant "probably more widely used" and "probably longer lasting"? :)
LOC URI for the DoI (the work) is without .html: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79029194 VIAF URI for the DoI is without trailing /: http://viaf.org/viaf/179420344 Ben http://companjen.name/id/BC <- me http://companjen.name/id/BC.html <- about me On 05-11-13 19:03, "Karen Coyle" <li...@kcoyle.net> wrote: >Eric, I found an even better URI for you for the Declaration of >Independence: > >http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79029194.html > >Now that could be seen as being representative of the name chosen by the >LC Name Authority, but the related VIAF record, as per the VIAF >definition of itself, represents the real world thing itself. That URI is: > >http://viaf.org/viaf/179420344/ > >I noticed that this VIAF URI isn't linked from the Wikipedia page, so I >will add that. > >kc