Virtual International Authority File

As a follow-up from the SIMILE telecon 2 weeks ago, I'm forwarding
various information regarding VIAF (Virtual Information Authority File)
with permissions and cc'ing Barbara who can provide any additional
information on this work.

1) Barbara's presentation on VIAF (presented in Rome last Nov. and
similar versions previously in Hong Kong, Beijing, Stavanger, Norway,
etc.) about the idea of the VIAF being a building block for the Semantic
Web. [1]

2) VIAF Project description done for LOC staff. [2]

3) A document from Barbara, Larry Dixson, Diane Humes sent to DELOS/NSF
Working Group on Actors/Roles that also provides another take on the
VIAF. [3]

[1]
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2003Mar/att-0068/VIAF_Rome_2002hypsnprev.ppt
[2]http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2003Mar/att-0068/VIAF_Proof_of_concept.ppt
[3]http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2003Mar/att-0068/DELOSNSF4.doc

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eric miller                              http://www.w3.org/people/em/
semantic web activity lead               http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
w3c world wide web consortium            http://www.w3.org/

Received on Thursday, 27 March 2003 08:10:20 UTC