Template:Authority control/doc

Description
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) :


 * Full :


 * Blank :


 * The following data sources are accepted:


 * 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:

Examples
Victor Hugo:

Alexander Graham Bell:

Harry Forbes Witherby:

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

Microformat
The template wraps each UID value with the HTML markup:, 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:
 * – articles and categories transcluding this template with explicit parameters (not loaded from WikiData)

Additional categories may be added by Module:Authority control:
 * The module documentation contains a list, see
 * Specific identifiers are in subcategories of
 * Faulty parameters are in subcategories of

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", "default": "Wikidata property P214" },               "LCCN": { "label": "LCCN", "description": "Library of Congress Control Number. See Authority control for formatting instructions.", "type": "string", "default": "Wikidata property P244" },               "ISNI": { "label": "ISNI", "description": "International Standard Name Identifier is a method for uniquely identifying the public identities of contributors to media content such as books, TV programmes, and newspaper articles.", "type": "string", "default": "Wikidata property P213" },               "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", "default": "Wikidata property P496" },               "GND": { "label": "GND", "aliases": ["PND"], "description": "Authority data on people, corporations and subjects from the German National Library.", "type": "string", "default": "Wikidata property P227" },               "SELIBR": { "label": "SELIBR", "description": "Authority data from the National Library of Sweden.", "type": "string", "default": "Wikidata property P906" },               "SUDOC": { "label": "SUDOC", "description": "Authority data of people listed in the general catalogue of the University Documentation System of France.", "type": "string", "default": "Wikidata property P269" },               "BNF": { "label": "BNF", "description": "Authority data of people listed in the general catalogue of the National Library of France.", "type": "string", "default": "Wikidata property P268" },               "BPN": { "label": "BPN", "description": "Dutch project with material for 40,000 digitized biographies, including former colonies of the Netherlands.", "type": "number", "default": "Wikidata property P651" },               "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", "default": "Wikidata property P1053" },               "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", "default": "Wikidata property P1015" },               "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", "default": "Wikidata property P245" },               "HDS": { "label": "HDS", "description": "Historical Dictionary of Switzerland is an encyclopedia on the history of Switzerland.", "type": "number", "default": "Wikidata property P902" },               "LIR": { "label": "LIR", "description": "Historical Dictionary of Switzerland: Lexicon Istoric Retic (LIR) is a two volume version with a selection of articles published in Romansh.", "type": "number", "default": "Wikidata property P886" },               "MBA": { "label": "MBA", "description": " MusicBrainz is an open music encyclopedia that collects music metadata and makes it available to the public.", "type": "string", "default": "Wikidata property P434" },               "MGP": { "label": "MGP", "description": "Mathematics Genealogy Project is a web-based database for the academic genealogy of mathematicians.", "type": "number", "default": "Wikidata property P549" },

"NLA": { "label": "NLA", "description": "Authority control number issued by the National Library of Australia.", "type": "string", "default": "Wikidata property P409" },               "NDL": { "label": "NDL", "description": "Authority control number issued by the National Diet Library (National Library of Japan).", "type": "number", "default": "Wikidata property P349" },               "NCL": { "label": "NCL", "description": "National Central Library is the national library of Taiwan, Republic of China.", "type": "number", "default": "Wikidata property P1048" },               "NKC": { "label": "NKC", "description": "National Library of the Czech Republic (Národní knihovna České republiky) is the central library of the Czech Republic.", "type": "string", "default": "Wikidata property P691" },               "Léonore": { "label": "Léonore", "description": "Léonore database (Base Léonore) is a French database that lists the records of the members of the National Order of the Legion of Honor.", "type": "string", "default": "Wikidata property P640" },               "SBN": { "label": "SBN", "description": "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 (SBN: Servizio bibliotecario nazionale).", "type": "string", "default": "Wikidata property P396" },               "RLS": { "label": "RLS", "description": "Russian State Library (Российская государственная библиотека) is the national library of Russia.", "type": "number", "default": "Wikidata property P947" },               "Botanist": { "label": "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-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" },               "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" },               "USCongress": { "label": "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", "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", "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", "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", "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", "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", "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": "Photographers' Identities Catalog", "description": "PIC is a photographer's database. It is maintained by the New York Public Library.", "type": "number", "default": "Wikidata property P2750" }       } }