Find what you want in a library near you with WorldCat, a global catalog of library collections.
Catàjeg Col·lectiu més gran del món. Conté mes de 62 milions de registres de les més de 10mil biblioteques asociades a la OCLC (Online Computer Library Center)
OCLC is systematically adding FAST (Faceted Application of Subject Terminology) headings to many WorldCat bibliographic records. This document provides information about:
What is FAST?
OCLC’s addition of FAST to WorldCat bibliographic records
Why OCLC is adding FAST to WorldCat
How the LCSH-to-FAST conversion process works
CONTENTdm® makes everything in your digital collections available to everyone, everywhere. No matter the format — local history archives, newspapers, books, maps, slide libraries or audio/video — CONTENTdm can handle the storage, management and delivery of your collections to users across the Web.
Reference Extract is envisioned as a web search engine. Reference Extracts will be built for maximum credibility by relying on the expertise and credibility judgments of librarians from around the globe. Users get results weighted towards sites most often referred to by librarians at 1,400 libraries worldwide.
The OCLC releases the VIAF data as ODC-by. They say it's compatible with CC0, since the only attribution measure required is to use VIAF canonical URIs in the data.
OAIster is a union catalog of millions of records representing open archive resources that was built by harvesting from open archive collections worldwide using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH).
This year the ALCTS Forum at ALA MidwinterL1 brought together three perspectives on massaging bibliographic data of various sorts in ways that use MARC, but where MARC is not the end goal. What do you get when you swirl MARC, ONIX, and various other formats of metadata in a big pot? Three projects: ONIX Enrichment at OCLC, the Open Library Project, and Google Book Search metadata.
"Classify is an OCLC Research prototype that helps you classify books, magazines, movies, and music using the Dewey Decimal Classification system or the Library of Congress Classification system."
Press Release:OCLC and EBSCO to enhance discovery services through data exchange. OCLC and EBSCO Publishing have expanded their partnership to enhance the discovery experience for users of WorldCat Local and the EBSCO Discovery Service through an expanded data exchange agreement. The new agreement will create more value for libraries that subscribe to services from OCLC and EBSCO.
Classify is an OCLC research prototype designed to support the assignment of classification numbers and subject headings for books, DVDs, CDs, and other types of library materials.
"Libraries were once the center of the information universe. Fifteen years ago, if I had told you about the coming internet, you would have assumed that libraries would have a prominent place on it. They don't.
Libraries, including WorldCat, rarely show up in web searches, even for books. I lay the blame squarely at the wrong-headed decision to keep library data off the "real web" and to push WorldCat as a "aggregation point" for nobody.
Keynote presentation at the North Atlantic Health Science Library meeting, October 26, 2009.
An introduction to semantic web technologies and their relationship to libraries and bibliographic data.
It has been a couple of years since I posted statistics from WorldCat, so here is a new spreadsheet based on an October 1, 2009 snapshot (see the earlier post for an explanation of the table). WorldCat has changed dramatically...
* Alternative to OCLC cataloging already in some libraries
* Fewer records, emphasis on quality
* Copy cataloging record search and notification included
* Google has access to WorldCat metadata
* Google says bad metadata comes from external providers
* No restrictions on which WorldCat metadata fields can be used
The Audit Checklist for the Certification of Trusted Digital Repositories, originally developed by RLG-NARA Digital Repository Certification Task Force, has been revised and expanded. The revised version is entitled: Trustworthy Repositories Audit & Certification: Criteria and Checklist (TRAC).
Dewey.info is an experimental space for linked DDC data. The initial data set available is a
linked data version of the DDC Summaries in nine languages. The intention of the dewey.info prototype
is to be a platform for Dewey data on the Web.
"The OLE and Ex Libris URM projects continue to sustain the vendor and content neutrality that has been a hallmark of traditional library software, updated to use newer technology. It will be fascinating to see what values libraries choose to prioritize. Will it be perceived low cost and convenience or will it be content and vendor neutrality, i.e. the ability to negotiate low prices coupled with the traditional need to protect privileged data that will continue to weigh heavily into their future decisions? It's an important decision."
"The 2003 OCLC Environmental Scan: Pattern Recognition report was produced for OCLC’s worldwide membership to examine the significant issues and trends impacting OCLC, libraries, museums, archives and other allied organizations, both now and in the future. The scan provides a high-level view of the information landscape, intended both to inform and stimulate discussion about future strategic directions."
"New Gang member Frances Haugen from Google, joined Marshall Breeding and myself for a discussion about one of the recent trends in computing and the Internet, Cloud Computing, and how it will influence libraries, especially in the ligth of recent announcements by OCLC."
"There are enough confusing terms hijacked by marketeers in the computing and Internet worlds. So I’m sure OCLC will forgive me if I continue to describe their approach as a cloud based software as a service – Cloud Computing."
ur use of the term within OCLC describes both a technical architecture and the impact the services have within the community they serve. The following is a brief outline focused on the technology aspects. Over the next several weeks I will provide a detailed post on each of these topics.
OCLC is beginning a major new initiative to expose the data contributed to WorldCat by member libraries in useful new ways
By Don Hamparian and Roy Tennant