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Authority control is the term-of-art in librarianship, archival practice and related fields for unique identifiers to disambiguate objects (people, places, academic subjects, etc.). These fields of study have different conceptualisations of unique identifiers form some other fields because many systems in place are backwards-compatible to pre ...
Wikidata is a document-oriented database, focusing on items, which represent any kind of topic, concept, or object. Each item is allocated a unique, persistent identifier, a positive integer prefixed with the upper-case letter Q, known as a "QID". Q is the starting letter of the first name of Qamarniso Vrandečić (née Ismoilova), an Uzbek ...
Oct 17, 2010 · As of the fall of 2009 there are 18 personal name authority files from 15 organizations participating in VIAF. Linked Data Perspective. Increasingly, VIAF participants publish their authority records on the Web in a hodgepodge of formats and languages using a variety of REST and non-REST URIs forms. VIAF uses these source URIs, if available ...
International Standard Serial Number. An International Standard Serial Number ( ISSN) is an eight-digit serial number used to uniquely identify a serial publication (periodical), such as a magazine. [1] The ISSN is especially helpful in distinguishing between serials with the same title.
t. e. Abu Muhammad Abd al-Qadir ibn Abi Salih al-Jilani al-Hasani ( Arabic: أبو محمد عبد القادر بن أبي صالح الجيلاني الحسني, romanized : ʾAbū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Qādir ibn ʾAbī Ṣāliḥ al-Jīlānī al-Ḥasanī ), known as Abdul Qadir Gilani ( Persian: عبدالقادر گیلانی ), was an ...
World War II Victory Medal. Peter Graves (born Peter Duesler Aurness; March 18, 1926 – March 14, 2010) was an American actor who portrayed Jim Phelps in the television series Mission: Impossible from 1967 to 1973 and in its revival from 1988 to 1990. His elder brother was actor James Arness. Graves also played airline pilot Captain Clarence ...
Wikipedia [note 3] is a free content online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and the use of the wiki -based editing system MediaWiki. Wikipedia is the largest and most-read reference work in history.
