@Billinghurst: Pardon my ignorance, but what's VIAF?

On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 11:18 AM, billinghurst <[email protected]>
wrote:

> With the WD methodology for each book there is to be an entry for the book
> as the idea/concept. Then for each edition there is to be a separate entry.
>
> Now the difficulty that I am seeing is that WP links to the book/idea.
> Whereas WS links to the edition. So there is no visible relationship from
> each to the other in the WS <-> WP
>
> Now while that may be correct it is problematic. Anyone have any clear
> solution? If it is going to be through indirect linking then we are going
> to need some clever lua work at enWS for Wikipedia linking in {{plain
> sister}} and similarly at the WP side.
>
> While I have attention, VIAF entries for works. Are they related to the
> work or to an edition or is it both?  I see that the translations of works
> have a year in VIAF, and as that relates to an author it may be right but
> it seems inconsistent.
>
> Regards, Billinghurst
>
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