Wikidata:VIAF
This page provides information about the relation between data in VIAF and data in Wikidata.
Overview
[edit]- Domain: While Wikidata is not domain-specific, VIAF stores only information from specific domains.
- Wikidata:VIAF/partner - Wikidata is one of several partners providing information to VIAF and has the status "non-contributor", the partner ID is WKP and the partner page URL is: https://viaf.org/en/contributors?id=WKP, the name of Wikidata in VIAF is Wikipedia.
- Wikidata:VIAF/type - the type of an entity in Wikidata can be a subclass of a type in VIAF, e.g. Wikidata has type:human while in VIAF the same entity has type:person. The most common type in Wikidata for items having a VIAF ID is "human"
- Wikidata:VIAF/cluster / Wikidata item:
- VIAF can contain entities that do not exist in Wikidata but each could be added to it.
- Wikidata can contain entities that do not exist in VIAF but could be added to it.
- Wikidata can contain entities that do not exist in VIAF and could not be added to it.(example?)
- Identifiers:
- VIAF can contain source IDs that do not exist in Wikidata but can be added to it.
- Wikidata can contain external IDs:
- for which the system is not part of VIAF (twitter, facebook, ...)
- for which the system was part of VIAF (example?)
- for which the system is part of VIAF, but the specific ID is not in VIAF
Statistics
[edit]| property | VIAF code | items (2024-10-12) | items (2025-07-21) | users (total) | users (June 2025) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P214 | (VIAF) | 3,444,466 | 3,649,450 | 10,439 | 615 |
| P227 | DNB | 1,843,039 | 2,426,148 | 5,314 | 318 |
| P213 | ISNI | 1,699,662 | 2,216,034 | 6,840 | 424 |
| P244 | LC | 1,635,913 | 1,686,829 | 6,750 | 427 |
| P269 | SUDOC | 982,160 | 1,007,193 | 3,302 | 255 |
| P8189 | J9U | 823,439 | 835,048 | 1,304 | 127 |
| P691 | NKC | 783,355 | 813,295 | 1,420 | 70 |
| P268 | BNF | 701,258 | 723,772 | 4,019 | 298 |
| P1207 | NUKAT | 632,937 | 687,557 | 1,645 | 155 |
| P1006 | NTA | 559,425 | 576,486 | 1,649 | 152 |