Template:Authority control/doc

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Description

This metadata template links Wikipedia articles to various library (and other) 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

Wikidata content is used as fallback for all identifiers.

The template validates digits for all values and shows an error if the check fails.

Wherever possible, the template also generates a link to WorldCat Identities, using VIAF or LCCN values, or manually via |WORLDCATID=.

Position

System-search.svg⧼Seealso⧽: Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Layout|Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Layout#Standard appendices and footers|Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Layout.

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 general guideline:

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

In addition to the mixed-case parameter names listed on this page, the template also supports all-lowercase alias names of all parameters (except for deprecated ones).

Empty (reliant wholly on Wikidata)
{{Authority control}}
Selective suppression via blank parameters (reliant on Wikidata, except the suppressed parameters)
{{Authority control |VIAF= |LCCN= |WORLDCATID=}}
Manual parameters, if not yet on Wikidata
{{Authority control |VIAF=123456789 |LCCN=n78039510 |WORLDCATID=lccn-n78039510}}
The following data sources are accepted (may not be up-to-date)
Authority control identifiers
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 Gemeinsame Normdatei (Integrated Authority File) [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] 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] Authority data of people listed in the general catalogue of the National Library of France
BPN People Biografisch Portaal (Dutch Biography Portal) [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] [13] 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 [14] 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).
HDS Historical Dictionary of Switzerland [15] Historical Dictionary of Switzerland is an encyclopedia on the history of Switzerland.
LIR Lexicon Istoric Retic [16] Lexicon Istoric Retic (LIR) is a two volume version with a selection of articles published in Romansh.
MBA Artists MusicBrainz Artist ID [17] MusicBrainz is an open music encyclopedia that collects music metadata and makes it available to the public.
MGP Mathematics Genealogy Project [18] Mathematics Genealogy Project is a web-based database for the academic genealogy of mathematicians.
NLA People or groups National Library of Australia [19] 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 [20] Authority data listed in the catalog of the national library of Japan. Search also available via VIAF.
NCL National Central Library National Central Library is the national library of Taiwan, Republic of China.
NKC National Library of the Czech Republic [21] National Library of the Czech Republic (Národní knihovna České republiky) is the central library of the Czech Republic.
Léonore Base Léonore [22] Léonore database (Base Léonore) is a French database that lists the records of the members of the National Order of the Legion of Honor.
ICCU Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico (ICCU) Servizio bibliotecario nazionale (SBN) [23] Central Institute for the Union Catalogue (ICCU: Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico) is an Italian government agency created to build a single catalog of all the libraries in the nation. It manages National Library Service (Servizio bibliotecario nazionale).
RSL Russian State Library [24] Russian State Library (Российская государственная библиотека) is the national library of Russia.
Botanist Author citation (botany) [25] Author citation (botany): standard form (official abbreviation) of a personal name for use in an author citation (only for names of algae, fungi and plants). Links to page at International Plant Names Index (IPNI).
NARA National Archives and Records Administration [26] National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is an independent agency of the United States government charged with preserving and documenting government and historical records.
USCongress Biographical Directory of the United States Congress [27] Biographical Directory of the United States Congress is a biographical dictionary of all present and former members of the United States Congress and its predecessor, the Continental Congress. Also included are Delegates from territories and the District of Columbia and Resident Commissioners from the Philippines and Puerto Rico.
BNE Biblioteca Nacional de España [28] National Library of Spain (BNE: Biblioteca Nacional de España) is a major public library, the largest in Spain.
CINII CiNii [29] CiNii is a bibliographic database service for material in Japanese academic libraries. It is maintained by the National Institute of Informatics.
TLS Theaterlexikon der Schweiz [30] Theaterlexikon der Schweiz (TLS) is an encyclopedia about theatre in Switzerland. It was developed by the Institute of Theatre Studies of the University of Berne.
SIKART SIKART [31] SIKART is a biographical dictionary and a database on visual art in Switzerland and Liechtenstein. It is published online by the Swiss Institute for Art Research (SIAR).
KULTURNAV KulturNav [32] KulturNav is a Norwegian cloud-based software service, allowing users to create, manage and distribute name authorities and terminology, focusing on the needs of museums and other cultural heritage institutions. The software is developed by KulturIT ANS and the development project is funded by the Arts Council Norway.
RKDartists Artists Netherlands Institute for Art History § Online artist pages [33] 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).
RKDID Art RKDimages ID [34]
autores.uy Authors autores.uy [35] autores.uy is an author's database, that focus on Uruguayan authors. It was created and maintained by the Uruguayan chapter of Creative Commons. It also provides access to digitized works of the authors in public domain.
PIC Photographers Photographers' Identities Catalog [36] PIC is a photographer's database. It is maintained by the New York Public Library.
IAAF People International Association of Athletics Federations [37] The IAAF athlete database lists information about sport of athletics competitors.
ACM-DL People ACM Digital Library [38]
BALaT People or groups or art d:BALaT [39] Belgian Art Links and Tools
Bildindex Art Marburg Picture Index [40]
DBLP Publications DBLP [41]
Joconde Art Joconde [42]
LNB People National Library of Latvia [43]
NSK National and University Library in Zagreb [44]
SNAC-ID People or groups Social Networks and Archival Context [45]
NLB People, organisations & places National Library Board Singapore [46] Authority data of a person, organisation or place from the National Library Board Singapore.
UKPARL People Parliament of the United Kingdom [47] UK parliament member data
VcBA Vatican Library [48] Vatican Library document data

The following data sources are deprecated and will cause articles to be added to hidden tracking sub-categories of Category:Articles with authority control information:

Deprecated parameters
Deprecated identifiers
Deprecated
parameter
Scope Name Remarks Tracking
Template:Red Corporations Gemeinsame Körperschaftsdatei
(now part of GND)
Authority data on corporations from the German National Library (Template:Red) Tracking for all deprecated IDs
Template:Red People Personennamendatei
(now part of GND)
Authority data on people from the German National Library (Template:Red) Tracking for all deprecated IDs
Template:Red Russian State Library Russian State Library (Российская государственная библиотека) is the national library of Russia. (Template:Red) Tracking for all deprecated IDs
Template:Red Subjects Schlagwortnormdatei
(now part of GND)
Authority data on subjects from the German National Library (Template:Red) Tracking for all deprecated IDs
Template:Red Organizations NARA-organization
(now simply NARA)
Authority data on organizations via federal records (Template:Red) Tracking for all deprecated IDs
Template:Red People NARA-person
(now simply NARA)
Authority data on people via federal records (Template:Red) Tracking for all deprecated IDs
  • The |SBN= parameter is still functional as an alias, but will be deprecated at a later stage (to avoid confusion with the unrelated [I]SBN identifier). Please update templates to use the |ICCU= parameter instead.


Examples

Victor Hugo:

{{Authority control |VIAF=9847974 |LCCN=n/79/091479 |ISNI=0000 0001 2120 0982 |GND=118554654 |SELIBR=206651 |SUDOC=026927608 |BNF=cb11907966z |BIBSYS=90054094 |ULAN=500032572 |HDS=011461 |MBA=c0c99c8f-4779-4c35-9497-67d60a73310a |NLA=35212404 |NDL=00443985 |NKC=jn19990003739 |Léonore=LH//1320/26 |ICCU=IT\ICCU\CFIV\000163 |RSL=000081185 |BNE=XX874892 |CINII=DA00460099 |RKDartists=40381}}

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Alexander Graham Bell:

{{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}}

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Harry Forbes Witherby:

{{Authority control |VIAF=66861474 |LCCN=n/87/142671 |ISNI=0000 0001 0911 2808 |GND=117421863 |SUDOC=090162897}}

Lua error in Module:EditAtWikidata at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).

Rendering

The template is split into seven sections: "General", "National libraries", "Art galleries and museums", "Art research institutes", "Biographical dictionaries", "Scientific databases", and "Other". If all identifiers are in the same section, |state= is ignored, and the template displays on one line: Lua error in Module:EditAtWikidata at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Otherwise, the template displays as a navbox with a header: Lua error in Module:EditAtWikidata at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).

Initial visibility: currently defaults to autocollapse

To set this template's initial visibility, the |state= parameter may be used:

  • |state=collapsed: {{Authority control|state=collapsed}} to show the template collapsed, i.e., hidden apart from its title bar
  • |state=expanded: {{Authority control|state=expanded}} to show the template expanded, i.e., fully visible
  • |state=autocollapse: {{Authority control|state=autocollapse}}
    • shows the template collapsed to the title bar if there is a {{navbar}}, a {{sidebar}}, or some other table on the page with the collapsible attribute
    • shows the template in its expanded state if there are no other collapsible items on the page

If the |state= parameter in the template on this page is not set, the template's initial visibility is taken from the |default= parameter in the Collapsible option template. For the template on this page, that currently evaluates to autocollapse.

Wikidata and tracking categories

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

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Additional tracking categories

This template may add the following categories:

Error reports

Click here to see a monthly parameter usage 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.

See also

TemplateData

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It manages National Library Service (SBN: Servizio bibliotecario nazionale).", "type": "string", "default": "Wikidata property P396" }, "RSL": { "label": "RSL", "aliases": [ "rsl" ], "description": "Russian State Library (Российская государственная библиотека) is the national library of Russia.", "type": "number", "default": "Wikidata property P947" }, "Botanist": { "label": "Botanist", "aliases": [ "botanist" ], "description": "Author citation (botany): standard form (official abbreviation) of a personal name for use in an author citation (only for names of algae, fungi and plants). Links to page at International Plant Names Index (IPNI).", "type": "string", "default": "Wikidata property P428" }, "NARA": { "label": "NARA", "aliases": [ "nara", "NARA-person", "NARA-organization" ], "description": "National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is an independent agency of the United States government charged with preserving and documenting government and historical records.", "type": "number", "default": "Wikidata property P1225" }, "NARA-person": { "label": "NARA-person", "description": "National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is an independent agency of the United States government charged with preserving and documenting government and historical records.", "type": "number", "default": "Wikidata property P1222", "deprecated": true }, "NARA-organization": { "label": "NARA-organization", "description": "National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is an independent agency of the United States government charged with preserving and documenting government and historical records.", "type": "number", "default": "Wikidata property P1223", "deprecated": true }, "USCongress": { "label": "USCongress", "aliases": [ "uscongress" ], "description": "Biographical Directory of the United States Congress is a biographical dictionary of all present and former members of the United States Congress and its predecessor, the Continental Congress. Also included are Delegates from territories and the District of Columbia and Resident Commissioners from the Philippines and Puerto Rico.", "type": "string", "default": "Wikidata property P1157" }, "BNE": { "label": "BNE", "aliases": [ "bne" ], "description": "National Library of Spain (BNE: Biblioteca Nacional de España) is a major public library, the largest in Spain.", "type": "string", "default": "Wikidata property P950" }, "CINII": { "label": "CINII", "aliases": [ "cinii" ], "description": "CiNii is a bibliographic database service for material in Japanese academic libraries. It is maintained by the National Institute of Informatics.", "type": "string", "default": "Wikidata property P271" }, "TLS": { "label": "TLS", "aliases": [ "tls" ], "description": "Theaterlexikon der Schweiz (TLS) is an encyclopedia about theatre in Switzerland. It was developed by the Institute of Theatre Studies of the University of Berne.", "type": "string", "default": "Wikidata property P1362" }, "SIKART": { "label": "SIKART", "aliases": [ "sikart" ], "description": "SIKART is a biographical dictionary and a database on visual art in Switzerland and Liechtenstein. It is published online by the Swiss Institute for Art Research (SIAR).", "type": "number", "default": "Wikidata property P781" }, "KULTURNAV": { "label": "KULTURNAV", "aliases": [ "kulturnav" ], "description": "KulturNav is a Norwegian cloud-based software service, allowing users to create, manage and distribute name authorities and terminology, focusing on the needs of museums and other cultural heritage institutions. The software is developed by KulturIT ANS and the development project is funded by the Arts Council Norway.", "type": "string", "default": "Wikidata property P1248" }, "RKDartists": { "label": "RKDartists", "aliases": [ "rkdartists" ], "description": "RKDartists is an online database using a controlled vocabulary currently containing around 200,000+ names and other information about artists", "type": "number", "default": "Wikidata property P650" }, "autores.uy": { "label": "autores.uy", "description": "autores.uy is an author's database, that focus on uruguayan authors. It also provides access to digitized works of the authors in public domain.", "type": "number", "default": "Wikidata property P2558" }, "PIC": { "label": "PIC", "aliases": [ "pic" ], "description": "Photographers' Identities Catalog (PIC) is a photographer's database. It is maintained by the New York Public Library.", "type": "number", "default": "Wikidata property P2750" }, "ACM-DL": { "label": "ACM-DL", "aliases": [ "acm-dl" ], "description": "Association for Computing Machinery Digital Library (ACM DL) author identifier.", "type": "number", "default": "Wikidata property P864" }, "BALaT": { "label": "BALaT", "aliases": [ "balat" ], "description": "Identifier for images in the Photo Library database of BALaT (Belgian Art Links & Tools), maintained by KIK-IRPA, Belgium's Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage.", "type": "number", "default": "Wikidata property P3293" }, "Bildindex": { "label": "Bildindex", "aliases": [ "bildindex" ], "description": "Picture index of art and architecture.", "type": "number", "default": "Wikidata property P2092" }, "DBLP": { "label": "DBLP", "aliases": [ "dblp" ], "description": "Identifier for person entries in the DBLP (Digital Bibliography & Library Project) computer science bibliography.", "type": "number", "default": "Wikidata property P2456" }, "IAAF": { "label": "IAAF", "aliases": [ "iaaf" ], "description": "Identifier for athletes in International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) database and website.", "type": "string", "default": "Wikidata property P1146" }, "Joconde": { "label": "Joconde", "aliases": [ "joconde" ], "description": "Identifier in the Joconde database of the French Ministry of Culture.", "type": "string", "default": "Wikidata property P347" }, "LNB": { "label": "LNB", "aliases": [ "lnb" ], "description": "Identifier assigned by the National Library of Latvia.", "type": "number", "default": "Wikidata property P1368" }, "NSK": { "label": "NSK", "aliases": [ "nsk" ], "description": "Identifier for an item in the National and University Library in Zagreb (including leading zeroes).", "type": "number", "default": "Wikidata property P1375" }, "RKDID": { "label": "RKDID", "aliases": [ "rkdid" ], "description": "Identifier per RKDimages of the Netherlands Institute for Art History.", "type": "number", "default": "Wikidata property P350" }, "SNAC-ID": { "label": "SNAC-ID", "aliases": [ "snac-id" ], "description": "Identifier for items in the Social Networks and Archival Context system.", "type": "string", "default": "Wikidata property P3430" }, "NLB ID": { "label": "NLB", "aliases": [ "nlb" ], "description": "Identifier of a person, organisation or place from the name authorities of National Library Board.", "type": "string", "default": "Wikidata property P3988" }, "UKPARL": { "label": "UKPARL", "aliases": [ "urparl" ], "description": "UK Parliament member ID", "type": "string", "default": "Wikidata property P6213" }, "KANTO ID": { "label": "KANTO", "aliases": [ "finaf","Asteri" ], "description": "Finnish national agent database ID", "type": "string", "default": "Wikidata property P8980" }, "VcBA": { "label": "VcBA", "aliases": [ "vcba" ], "description": "Vatican Library ID", "type": "string", "default": "Wikidata property P8034" }, "state": { "description": "Initial state of the template", "type": "unknown", "suggestedvalues": [ "autocollapse", "expanded", "collapsed" ], "default": "autocollapse", "suggested": true } } } </templatedata>