So a big YES to VIAF and (it seems) and resounding NO to GKC. Thanks everyone for such quick and helpful responses, especially Heidi Lerner for digging up the citation example: 670 ## $a BNF in VIAF, [date] $b ([data]) --Ben From: Program for Cooperative Cataloging <[log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of Lavey, Patrick Sent: Monday, May 07, 2018 2:05 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [PCCLIST] Sources for personal names Hello: I would avoid the Google Knowledge Graph. I have seen instances where it attributes books written by different authors with the same name to the author the graph features. Patrick Patrick Lavey Senior Cataloging Librarian Hugh and Hazel Darling Law Library UCLA School of Law 385 Charles E. Young Drive East Los Angeles, CA 90095 (310) 794-5390 From: Program for Cooperative Cataloging <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> On Behalf Of Prochazka,David Sent: Monday, May 7, 2018 10:54 AM To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: [PCCLIST] Sources for personal names 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- David Procházka | Music/Special Materials Cataloger | The University of Akron | Bierce Library-261C | Akron, Ohio 44325-1712 | 330-972-6260 | [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> From: Program for Cooperative Cataloging [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Benjamin A Abrahamse Sent: Monday, May 07, 2018 1:46 PM To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> 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<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_Graph> that sometimes appears at the top of a Google search? --Ben Benjamin Abrahamse Cataloging Coordinator Acquisitions & Discovery Enhancement MIT Libraries