Virtual International Authority File (VIAF)

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Maintained by: 
OCLC
Name types: 
Scholar names
Other names
Corporate authors
Data schema or elements: 
RDF, MADS, SKOS
Is the data linked?: 
Yes

Joint project of several national libraries plus selected regional and trans-national library agencies that matches and links library authority files. Service is currently free if you become a member of their consortium, and you need to apply to become a member by submitting test files. Brochure says the service will be freely available to all in the future. Could request permission to use.  Might be more oriented to book authors.