Reconciling LCNAF, LCCN and OCLC ID

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Hi, I am a Wikimedian who is trying to add authority control IDs on Wikidata for notable authors and titles. is there any documentation for looking up LCCNs and/or OCLC IDs for a long list of book titles? Similarly, I also want to search for individuals author/translator/editors' LCNAFs. Library of Congress has an API endpoint such as below, as documented at APIs for LoC.gov  |  Library of Congress.

"https://www.id.loc.gov/search/?all=True&fo=json&q=Book+Title&st=list"

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Hi and welcome.

Hi, I am a Wikimedian who is trying to add authority control IDs on Wikidata for notable authors and titles. is there any documentation for looking up LCCNs and/or OCLC IDs for a long list of book titles? Similarly, I also want to search for individuals author/translator/editors' LCNAFs. Library of Congress has an API endpoint such as below, as documented at APIs for LoC.gov | Library of Congress.

"https://www.id.loc.gov/search/?all=True&fo=json&q=Book+Title&st=list"

OpenRefine has a general interface to what it calls "reconciliation services" for doing this type of work. You can find a note about LCNAF reconciliation services here:
https://forum.openrefine.org/t/how-to-reconcile-with-library-of-congress-authorities/589

Hope that helps!

Tom

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Thanks much for your quick response. What I cannot find is what's mentioned in № 5: “Copy the JSON -- that's the entire contents of the text file (PersonalNamesReconcile.txt for personal names only; CorporateNamesReconcile.txt for corporate names only; GenericNamesReconcile.txt for a mix of both personal and corporate names**) -- in its entirety and paste into the pop-up window. Click "Perform Operations".”

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Hi Subhashish,

You may also be interested in these reconciliation services for LC vocabularies:
https://github.com/cmharlow/lc-reconcile

https://refine.codefork.com/

I would note that the latter service sometimes has incorrect labels, perhaps since it searches VIAF rather than performing a direct search of LC--sometimes there is a lag between when a heading is updated in LC and when the change appears in VIAF.

Best,
Timothy Ryan Mendenhall

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