Resources for Identifying Persons, Corporate Bodies, etc.

(DRAFT IN PROGRESS)

• Library of Congress Authorities
  
  • Library of Congress Names (Linked Data)
• CERL Thesaurus

Contains forms of imprint places, imprint names, personal names and corporate names as found in material printed before the middle of the nineteenth century - including variant spellings, forms in Latin and other languages, and fictitious names.

• Virtual International Authority File (VIAF)

• Getty Union List of Artist Names Online (ULAN)

• Canadiana Authorities (Library and Archives Canada)

Special Categories

Provenance

• Index Possessorum Incunabulorum (IPI)

• Early Book Owners in Britain (EBOB)

• Material Evidence in Incunabula (MEI)

Book trade

• Folger's Name Authority Headings for the Book Trade