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
OCLC is connecting the content, technology and expert capabilities of its member libraries worldwide to create the first Web-scale, cooperative library management service. Member libraries can take the first step to realizing this cooperative service model with a new, “quick start” version of the OCLC WorldCat Local service.
But, now more than ever, OCLC must end its attempts to restrict and monopolize library data. It was ugly and unfair for OCLC to claim ownership over what is largely public data. It is obscene to leverage that data monopoly into a software monopoly.
WorldCat Link Manager is open, interoperable link-server software that OCLC provides as a fully supported, hosted service. When your library users click a journal citation in your catalog or in your electronic databases, they are taken directly to the full content of the article in your collection.
WorldCat Link Manager is an OpenURL linking and listing service that allows users to link from an article citation in WorldCat to the full-text version of the article. WorldCat Link Manager "puts it all together" for libraries that don’t need the hassles of running their own link-server operation.
OCLC New Jersey is a development center within OCLC with a continuing mission: to help researchers, scholars, libraries, merchants and publishers link their information together. We build software, systems and services that link people to information more efficiently.
Presented by Karen Calhoun at the ALCTS Forum, American Library Association Midwinter Meeting, Denver CO, 26 January 2009. Discusses community norms and policies for sharing the data that supports the discovery and delivery of library collections; places these in the context of the broader data sharing environment outside libraries; and analyzes the process and rationale for revising OCLC's Guidelines for the Use and Transfer of Records.
The University of Michigan and OCLC today announced that they have formed a partnership that will ensure continued public access to open-archive collections through the OAIster database, and will expand the visibility of these collections to millions of information seekers through OCLC services.
E-Mail vom 28. Oktober 2008 von Karen Calhoun an verschiedene Mailinglisten als Reaktion auf die E-Mail von NYLINK, die frühzeitig den OCLC-Policy-Change ankündigte.
The University of Michigan approached OCLC about managing future operations for OAIster, which has grown to over 19 million records contributed by over 1,000 institutions and organizations worldwide since the service launched in 2002. OCLC welcomed the proposal because OAIster complements the types of resources already cataloged in WorldCat, broadens the scope of collections to include open archives, and reaches millions of information seekers every month through OCLC services including WorldCat.org and FirstSearch.
A. Pohl. Bibliotheksdienst, 43 (3):
274--290(March 2009)The article gives an overview over the background, genesis, content and critic of OCLC's proposed metadata policy for WorldCat records. In the end it poses questions for an approach on licensing bibliographic data in germany..
K. Calhoun. via www.slideshare.com, (August 2008)Präsentation der Ergebnisse der OCLC "Record Study Use Group" auf einem Panel des World Library and Information Congress der International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) vom August 2008..