<p><em>Sorry for cross-posting, perhaps this might be of interest:<br></em><em></em></p><em></em><div class="gmail_quote"><strong>OCLC </strong>have done their <strong>major release</strong> of <strong>VIAF</strong> meaning<br>

that <strong>millions </strong>of <strong>Author records</strong> are now available as <strong>Open Data</strong> (under<br>
Open Data Commons Attribution license):<br>
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<<a href="http://viaf.org/viaf/data/" target="_blank">http://viaf.org/viaf/data/</a>><br>
<br>
 the updated DataHub dataset for this to reflect all the new info:<br>
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<<a href="http://datahub.io/dataset/viaf" target="_blank">http://datahub.io/dataset/viaf</a>><br>
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This is great news.<br>
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Regards,<br>
<br>
Rufus<br>
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