Template:Authority control/doc

Description

Template:Details3 This metadata template links Wikipedia articles to various library catalogue systems. At the moment, it is used almost exclusively in biographical articles and on user pages.

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)

Integrated Authority File (Template:Lang or GND)

LIBRIS by the National Library of Sweden (SELIBR)

National Library of France (Template:Lang or BNF)

Dutch Biography Portal (Template:Lang 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)

Deprecated

Corporate Bodies Authority File (Template:Lang or GKD), now part of GND

Name Authority File (Template:Lang or PND), now part of GND

Subject Headings Authority File (Template:Lang or SWD), now part of GND

Wikidata content is used as fallback for the BNF, BPN, GND, ISNI, LCCN, MBA, NDL, ORCID, ULAN, NLA and VIAF identifiers.

The template validates check digits in ISNI and ORCID values 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 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

See also: Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Layout

As a metadata template, the Authority control template should be placed after the external links section and navigation templates, right before the Persondata template.

Usage

{{Authority control |VIAF=xxxxxx |LCCN=n/xx/xxxxxx |ISNI=xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx |ORCID=xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx |GND=xxxxxx |SELIBR=xxxxxx |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= |BNF= |BPN= |RID= |BIBSYS= |ULAN= |MBA= |NLA= |NDL=}}

Blank (reliant wholly on Wikidata) 

{{Authority control}}

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 (Template:Lang)	[5] [6]	Authority data on people, corporations and subjects from the German National Library
SELIBR	People	LIBRIS	[7]	Authority data from the National Library of Sweden
BNF	People	Template:Lang	[8] Template:Fr icon	Authority data of people listed in the general catalogue of the National Library of France
BPN	People	Dutch Biography Portal (Template:Lang)	[9]	Dutch project with material for 40,000 digitized biographies, including former colonies of the Netherlands.
RID	People	ResearcherID	[10]	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	[11]	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	[12]	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	[13]	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	[14]	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	[15]	Authority data listed in the catalog of the national library of Japan. Search also available via VIAF.

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: Template:Collapse top

Deprecated parameter	Scope	Name	Remarks	Tracking
Template:Red	Corporations	Template:Lang (now part of GND)	Authority data on corporations from the German National Library (Template:Red)	GKD cat
Template:Red	People	Template:Lang (now part of GND)	Authority data on people from the German National Library (Template:Red)	PND cat
Template:Red	Subjects	Template:Lang (now part of GND)	Authority data on subjects from the German National Library (Template:Red)	SWD cat

Examples

{{Authority control |VIAF=59263727 |LCCN=n/79/113947 |ISNI=0000 0000 8138 6064 |GND=119408643 |BNF=13746617f |MBA=9dd93d09-24b4-41f1-a48b-ef48b07499c3 }} – for Alexander Graham Bell produces:

{{Authority control |VIAF=66861474 |LCCN=n/87/142671 |ISNI=0000 0001 0911 2808 |GND=117421863 }} – for Harry Forbes Witherby produces:

Categories

The template applies the following categories:

• Specific identifiers are in subcategories of Category:Pages with authority control information
• Faulty parameters
  • Category:Wikipedia articles with faulty authority control identifiers (BPN)
  • Category:Wikipedia articles with faulty authority control identifiers (ISNI)
  • Category:Wikipedia articles with faulty authority control identifiers (LCCN)
  • Category:Wikipedia articles with faulty authority control identifiers (ORCID)
  • Category:Wikipedia articles with faulty authority control identifiers (SELIBR)
  • Category:Wikipedia articles with faulty authority control identifiers (VIAF)

Wikidata

The template can get its information from Wikidata:

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

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

• composer
• conductor
• club DJ
• DJ
• musician
• rapper
• record producer
• singer
• singer-songwriter

or are an instance of either

• band or
• rock band.

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.

RID (ResearcherID) currently does not have a property.

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

• Wikipedia:Authority control—editor information
  • FAQ
• Help:Authority control—reader help
• Template:Infobox book—supporting some library classification systems
• Template:German National Library portal
• For more information:
  • Template:Lang Template:De icon
  • Template:Lang Template:De icon
  • Commons:Template:Authority control

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData documentation for this template used by VisualEditor and other tools.

Authority control

A template to link Wikipedia articles to various library catalogue systems

Template parameters

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
VIAF	VIAF	International authority data from the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) Default empty Example empty Auto value empty	Number	optional
GND	GNDPND	Authority data on people, corporations and subjects from the German National Library Default empty Example empty Auto value empty	String	optional
LCCN	LCCN	Library of Congress Control Number. See [[Wikipedia:Authority control#LCCN]] for formatting instructions Default empty Example empty Auto value empty	Number	optional
ISNI	ISNI	ISNI is a method for uniquely identifying the public identities of contributors to media content such as books, TV programmes, and newspaper articles Default empty Example empty Auto value empty	String	optional
SELIBR	SELIBR	Authority data from the National Library of Sweden Default empty Example empty Auto value empty	String	optional
ORCID	ORCID	Authority data on researchers, academics, etc. The ID range has been defined as a subset of the forthcoming ISNI range Default empty Example empty Auto value empty	String	optional
BNF	BNF	Authority data of people listed in the general catalogue of the National Library of France Default empty Example empty Auto value empty	String	optional
BPN	BPN	Dutch project with material for 40,000 digitized biographies, including former colonies of the Netherlands Default empty Example empty Auto value empty	Number	optional
RID	RID	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 Default empty Example empty Auto value empty	String	optional
BIBSYS	BIBSYS	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 Default empty Example empty Auto value empty	String	optional
ULAN	ULAN	ULAN is an online database using a controlled vocabulary currently containing around 293,000 names and other information about artists Default empty Example empty Auto value empty	String	optional
MBA	MBA	MusicBrainz is an open music encyclopedia that collects music metadata and makes it available to the public. Default empty Example empty Auto value empty	String	optional
NLA	NLA	Authority control number issued by the National Library of Australia. Default empty Example empty Auto value empty	String	optional
NDL	NDL	Authority control number issued by the National Diet Library (National Library of Japan). Default empty Example empty Auto value empty	Number	optional

External links

Maintenance reports

• All template-namespace pages using authority control
• Number of transclusions