id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentences	flesch	summary	cache	txt
work_pt7vjqll6nbjnld3h3op3545wi	Thomas B. Hickey	Managing Ambiguity in VIAF	2014		.htm	application/xhtml+xml	5489	332	63	The Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) is built from tens of millions of names represented in more than 130 million authority and bibliographic records expressed in multiple languages, scripts and formats. This results in a more fluid view of identity than hand-built authority files provide, while giving VIAF the ability to react to refinements in the clustering algorithms and new data on a regular basis. Because VIAF uses titles and other information pulled from bibliographic records to help in the matching process, this sort of ambiguity can lead to confusion in subsequent matching. For Thomas Jefferson this means creating three different VIAF clusters reflecting the three aspects of his life (person, governor, president) and then trying to bring each source authority record into the most appropriate cluster. Other examples include identifying parallel records for the same entity and making links between uniform titles for controlled works (IFLA Study Group on the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records, 1997), expressions and authors.	./cache/work_pt7vjqll6nbjnld3h3op3545wi.htm	./txt/work_pt7vjqll6nbjnld3h3op3545wi.txt