Apologies for the delay in writing back. I want to thank everyone for the responses and additional information.
Ad nauseam, I know, but I'm obsessed with Authority control and VIAF is the major source for that (for me) so this discussion and help makes me really happy. Appreciate it. *COMMENTS* *A. VIAF deletions* Thanks for the advice. I'm glad to have it --> I will NOT delete multiple VIAFs -- and will actually be even a bit more exhaustive when inputting VIAF metadata into Wikidata. Thanks for this feedback. *B. VIAF bot* Good to know there's a bot that does maintenance. Thanks Finn. #yay *C. Wikidata into VIAF* Seeing as I am creating a ton of VIAF identifiers for new Wikidata items, how do these new Wikidata values that aren't in VIAF get ingested? I am hoping there is a bot that does this. I would not enjoy sending a list to OCLC/VIAF, and suspect it is automated. I am curious how this works and what the expected / typical timeframe of this process of ingesting new Wikidata items into existing VIAF (which don't have Wikidata yet) might be.... *D. Wikipedia:VIAF * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:VIAF/errors Yikes. I like the Wikidata page much better, even if I'm not 100% understanding it. This is nightmarish.... For some reason I thought there was an email to directly send VIAF/OCLC errors. *TOPICS* *1. OCLC Wikipedian-in-Residence* Yes, it was Max Klein (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Notconfusing), the prior WiR, the person I think who was the contact person. https://www.oclc.org/research/news/2012/05-22.html Yes, he moved on. I too, am curious who is functioning in the VIAF-contact role now. There has to be someone doing it now. There is a new WiR Monika Sengul-Jones, but she is working on an OCLC/WebJunction video tutorial <shudder> project that is reaching out to public librarians in the U.S., co-funded by WMF and the Knight Foundation. I tried to reach out to her to do some Authority control+Wikidata WikiFacilitating but never got traction. I am probably too shrill when it comes to Wikidata -- and Authority control. Lost opportunity. Oh well. *2. Single value violations* https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/Constraint_violations/P214# "Single_value"_violations I don't understand this at all. Apologies, I feel very dumb but would appreciate maybe a general, non-tech speak explanation if someone might be so kind. Thanks again! - Erika *Erika Herzog* Wikipedia *User:BrillLyle <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:BrillLyle>* On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 2:29 PM, Finn Aarup Nielsen <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, I think you should add all VIAFs. That is what I have done. I suppose > the VIAF people might discover mergeable VIAFs and merge them. > On Wikidata the Ivan A. Krestinin's bot at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/ > User:KrBot seems to operate and clear things up if VIAF merge, see e.g. > the edits after the revision in this item: > > https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q20984804&oldid=473484364#P214 > > I don't know whether VIAF monitors Wikidata. >
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