Template talk:Cite LCAuth

broken?

I am not sure if and when this broke but it seems to no longer link into the LoC but rather into VIAF now (maybe I am misunderstanding how this is supposed to work?). 50.53.1.33 (talk) 00:51, 17 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

It seems link this could be replaced with a VIAF link, e.g. http://errol.oclc.org/laf/n78-95474 vs. http://www.viaf.org/viaf/lccn/n78-95474 50.53.1.33 (talk) 23:19, 2 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, this is entirely broken. Documentation stated it was based upon WorldCat Identities however based upon the URLs it used/generated it was actually based upon ERRoL (another OCLC project) which appears to have redirected to WorldCat Identities, however, both WorldCat Identities and ERRoL (related to the UIUC OAI Registry) projects are dead. Apparently WorldCat Identities, died first and ERRoL was redirecting to VIAF for a while. I think this entire template needs to either die or be seriously rewritten. One possibility is to use the Library of Congress Linked Data Service (which seems to have heavily replaced OCLC ERRoL LAF) for their authority identifiers via URLs like: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/$1 or perhaps more specifically https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/$1 if they are all within the Library of Congress Name Authority File (Q18912790). —Uzume (talk) 11:14, 20 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]