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Subject: WIkipedia to add VIAF Identifiers
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This is a very welcome development in the gradual convergence of 
biography, factual biography and bioliography CNI has been seeking to 
encourage. I have not seen much about this work; basically, linkages 
will be built between the biographical entries in Wikipedia and the 
VIAF author name authority files.

See

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Authority_control_integration_proposal/RFC


My thanks to Peter Brantley for the pointer to this work.

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI