You can definitely cite VIAF.  If you use OCLC, you can do a keyword search for examples.  I would recommend NOT citing Google knowledge graphs; they are not stable or reproducible.  They pull that data from some source, so I’d try to track that down instead, and cite that.  It may not be permanent, but it would certainly be more fixed than a Google knowledge grach.

David—

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Subject: [PCCLIST] Sources for personal names

Dear NACO brains:

Two questions about sources for NARs:

1) is it ok to refer to VIAF in a 670?

2) what do people think about whether we can use the Google knowledge graph that sometimes appears at the top of a Google search?

--Ben

Benjamin Abrahamse

Cataloging Coordinator

Acquisitions & Discovery Enhancement

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