Template:Authority control

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Description

For more details on this topic, see Authority control and Wikipedia:Authority control.

This metadata template links Wikipedia articles to various library catalogue systems, for biographies and other topics.

This template draws most of its values from Wikidata, but they can be overridden by locally entered data. Adding the data to Wikidata is preferable.

If there is no information in Wikidata for the specific subject, an empty instance of this template will be dormant, meaning it will be invisible on the rendered page. Thus, using this template on a page with no authority information is harmless.

An empty instance of this template stays dormant in an article, until values are added to Wikidata, when it will then display them, so this template should be added to all biographies, whether or not there are authority control identifiers in Wikidata already.

User pages

The template may also be placed on user pages, but then data must be entered locally.

Data types

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; see also WP:ORCID)
Integrated Authority File (Gemeinsame Normdatei or GND)
LIBRIS by the National Library of Sweden (SELIBR)
University Documentation System of France (Système universitaire de documentation or SUDOC)
National Library of France (Bibliothèque nationale de France or BNF)
Dutch Biography Portal (Biografisch Portaal 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)
... (30+ sources, see "local conf" list at Module:Authority control)
Deprecated
Corporate Bodies Authority File (Gemeinsame Körperschaftsdatei or GKD), now part of GND
Name Authority File (Personennamendatei or PND), now part of GND
Subject Headings Authority File (Schlagwortnormdatei or SWD), now part of GND

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

The template validates digits in many values (such as ISNI, ORCID, SUDOC, etc.) and shows an error if the check fails.

Wherever possible, the template also generates a link to WorldCat Identities, using VIAF or LCCN values.

Position

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

Usage

As a rule of thumb: (1) insert the empty version, (2) click "Show preview" to see which sources are automatically pulled from Wikidata, (3a) if you know more sources, add them in the template using their named param, (3b) alternatively, consider adding them to the article's "Wikidata item" (so that all versions of Wikipedia will automatically benefit).

Empty (reliant wholly on Wikidata) 
{{Authority control}}
Full 
{{Authority control |VIAF=xxxxxx |LCCN=n/xx/xxxxxx |ISNI=xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx |ORCID=xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx |GND=xxxxxx |SELIBR=xxxxxx |SUDOC=xxxxxxxxx |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= |SUDOC= |BNF= |BPN= |RID= |BIBSYS= |ULAN= |MBA= |NLA= |NDL=}}
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/register. Please take care not to confuse ORCID and ISNI identifiers.
GND All Integrated Authority File (Gemeinsame Normdatei) [5] [6] Authority data on people, corporations and subjects from the German National Library (DNB)
SELIBR People LIBRIS [7] Authority data from the National Library of Sweden
SUDOC People Système universitaire de documentation [8] (French) Authority data of people listed in the general catalogue of the University Documentation System of France. Also available from English-speaking catalog (search author, click one book, click author name, take PPN= value of the URL)
BNF People Bibliothèque nationale de France [9] (French) Authority data of people listed in the general catalogue of the National Library of France
BPN People Dutch Biography Portal (Biografisch Portaal) [10] Dutch project with material for 40,000 digitized biographies, including former colonies of the Netherlands.
RID People ResearcherID [11] 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 [12] 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 [13] 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 [14] 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 [15] 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 [16] Authority data listed in the catalog of the national library of Japan. Search also available via VIAF.
RKDartists Artists RKD' [17] RKDartists is an online database using a controlled vocabulary currently containing around 200,000+ names and other information about artists. Names in RKDartists may include given names, pseudonyms, variant spellings, names in multiple languages, and names that have changed over time (e.g., married names).
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:

Deprecated parameters
Deprecated
parameter
Scope Name Remarks Tracking
GKD Corporations Gemeinsame Körperschaftsdatei
(now part of GND)
Authority data on corporations from the German National Library (deprecated, please use GND) GKD cat
PND People Personennamendatei
(now part of GND)
Authority data on people from the German National Library (deprecated, please use GND) PND cat
SWD Subjects Schlagwortnormdatei
(now part of GND)
Authority data on subjects from the German National Library (deprecated, please use GND) SWD cat

Examples

{{Authority control |VIAF=59263727 |LCCN=n/79/113947 |ISNI=0000 0000 8138 6064 |GND=119408643 |SUDOC=066924146 |BNF=13746617f |MBA=9dd93d09-24b4-41f1-a48b-ef48b07499c3 |NDL=00620343 }} – for Alexander Graham Bell produces: Lua error in Module:Authority_control at line 346: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).


{{Authority control |VIAF=66861474 |LCCN=n/87/142671 |ISNI=0000 0001 0911 2808 |GND=117421863 |SUDOC=090162897 }} – for Harry Forbes Witherby produces: Lua error in Module:Authority_control at line 346: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).

Wikidata

The template can get its information from the following properties on Wikidata:

Parameter Type Property ID
VIAF VIAF Lua error in Module:Wikibase at line 22: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). (P214)
LCCN LCCN Lua error in Module:Wikibase at line 22: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). (P244)
ISNI ISNI Lua error in Module:Wikibase at line 22: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). (P213)
ORCID ORCID Lua error in Module:Wikibase at line 22: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). (P496)
GND GND Lua error in Module:Wikibase at line 22: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). (P227)
SELIBR LIBRIS Lua error in Module:Wikibase at line 22: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). (P906)
SUDOC SUDOC Lua error in Module:Wikibase at line 22: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). (P269)
BNF BNF Lua error in Module:Wikibase at line 22: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). (P268)
BPN BPN Lua error in Module:Wikibase at line 22: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). (P651)
ULAN ULAN Lua error in Module:Wikibase at line 22: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). (P245)
MBA MBID Lua error in Module:Wikibase at line 22: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). (P434)
NLA NLA Lua error in Module:Wikibase at line 22: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). (P409)
NDL NDL Lua error in Module:Wikibase at line 22: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). (P349)
BIBSYS BIBSYS Lua error in Module:Wikibase at line 22: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). (P1015)
RID RID Lua error in Module:Wikibase at line 22: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). (P1053)
RKDartists RKD Lua error in Module:Wikibase at line 22: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). (P650)

Error reports

See the monthly error report for this template.

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.

Tracking categories

This template may add the following categories:

Additional categories may be added by Module:Authority control:

See also

TemplateData

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

See the monthly error report for this template.

TemplateData for Authority control

<templatedata> {

       "description": "A template to link Wikipedia articles to various library catalogue systems",
       "params": {
               "VIAF": {
                       "label": "VIAF",
                       "description": "International authority data from the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC)",
                       "type": "number"
               },
               "GND": {
                       "label": "GND",
                       "description": "Authority data on people, corporations and subjects from the German National Library",
                       "type": "string",
                       "aliases": ["PND"]
               },
               "LCCN": {
                       "label": "LCCN",
                       "description": "Library of Congress Control Number.  See Wikipedia:Authority control#LCCN for formatting instructions",
                       "type": "number"
               },
               "ISNI": {
                       "label": "ISNI",
                       "description": "ISNI is a method for uniquely identifying the public identities of contributors to media content such as books, TV programmes, and newspaper articles",
                       "type": "string"
               },
               "SELIBR": {
                       "label": "SELIBR",
                       "description": "Authority data from the National Library of Sweden",
                       "type": "string"
               },
               "ORCID": {
                       "label": "ORCID",
                       "description": "Authority data on researchers, academics, etc. The ID range has been defined as a subset of the forthcoming ISNI range",
                       "type": "string"
               },
               "SUDOC": {
                       "label": "SUDOC",
                       "description": "Authority data of people listed in the general catalogue of the University Documentation System of France",
                       "type": "string"
               },
               "BNF": {
                       "label": "BNF",
                       "description": "Authority data of people listed in the general catalogue of the National Library of France",
                       "type": "string"
               },
               "BPN": {
                       "label": "BPN",
                       "description": "Dutch project with material for 40,000 digitized biographies, including former colonies of the Netherlands",
                       "type": "number"
               },
               "RID": {
                       "label": "RID",
                       "description": "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",
                       "type": "string"
               },
               "BIBSYS": {
                       "label": "BIBSYS",
                       "description": "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",
                       "type": "string"
               },
               "ULAN": {
                       "label": "ULAN",
                       "description": "ULAN is an online database using a controlled vocabulary currently containing around 293,000 names and other information about artists",
                       "type": "string"
               },
               "MBA": {
                       "label": "MBA",
                       "description": " MusicBrainz is an open music encyclopedia that collects music metadata and makes it available to the public. ",
                       "type": "string"
               },
               "NLA": {
                       "label": "NLA",
                       "description": "Authority control number issued by the National Library of Australia. ",
                       "type": "string"
               },
               "NDL": {
                       "label": "NDL",
                       "description": "Authority control number issued by the National Diet Library (National Library of Japan). ",
                       "type": "number"
               },
               "RKDartists": {
                       "label": "RKDartists",
                       "description": "RKDartists is an online database using a controlled vocabulary currently containing around 200,000+ names names and other information about artists",
                       "type": "string"
               }
       }

} </templatedata>

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