I have got an understanding that this is very unmature and the library world is still experimenting.... see below feedback from VIAF yesterday



In Sweden the National Library is slowly changing system and the process for Wikidata to support it was some weeks see 
after one year VIAF and LIBRIS has nt fixed the flow  and are unsure what to do. We started to see problems at VIAF last month when they started to mix ld and new IDs see phabricator.wikimedia.org/T223259

LIBRIS-XL is a projected started in 2012 with focus on Linked data and Bibframe BUT
My feeling is that this is a no win situation and that Wikidata could help Libraries what best practise is... maybe Wikidata is a better hub than VIAF




Regards
Magnus Sälgö
Stockholm, Sweden
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From: Wikidata <wikidata-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org> on behalf of Thomas Douillard <thomas.douillard@gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, May 31, 2019 12:27 PM
To: Discussion list for the Wikidata project.
Subject: [Wikidata] Authority control and Wikidata
 
Hi all, I find it hard to know what are the connections between Wikidata and authority control organizations and big live databases.

We got plenty of property that maps entities to external datas in Wikidata, but information about their freshness and the deepness of the collaboration between community and the organisations is harder to find.

There is a degree of collaboration, which come from « community does all the work,  maintenance and synchronisation, updates on Wikidata are not reflected on the database » to « the organisation fully collaborate and maintains a two way synchronization of the mapping and data from Wikidata (meaning, corrections on Wikidata are reflected on the database and the other way around) ».

Do we know where we are on the scale for the major authorities ? Pages like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Authority_control/VIAF seems to be a little dead, which suggest the collaboration which VIAF seems a little dead right now. Did I miss anything ?