The Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) is an international authority file. It is a joint project of several national libraries and operated by the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC). The project was initiated by the German National Library and the Library of Congress.
[edit] Participating libraries
- Bibliotheca Alexandrina
- National Library of Australia
- Bibliothèque nationale de France
- Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
- National Library of Israel
- Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico
- Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal
- Kungliga Biblioteket
- Swiss National Library
- Biblioteca Nacional de España
- National Library of the Czech Republic
- Getty Research Institute
- Library of Congress
- Vatican Library