The MARC Field That Refused to Die
Here at OCLC Research we look at a lot of bibliographic data. Usually in the aggregate, after having processed the 350+ million WorldCat records using our Hadoop cluster. One such …
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A Sister Blog is Born
OCLC has launched a new blog: Next. Focused on what comes next for libraries, librarians, and the communities they serve, it will draw upon OCLC staff with a variety of experiences and perspectives. First …
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David Bowie’s Top 100 Books
If you grew up on David Bowie’s music as I did, this has not been a good week. We lost his creative genius way too early. Social media has been awash …
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To Buy or Not to Buy and the Importance of Identifiers
To buy, or not to buy–that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the end to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous vendors Or to take up coding against …
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Library Linked Data in the Cloud
A book that a few of our colleagues have been working on for quite some time has now been released: Library Linked Data in the Cloud: OCLC’s Experiments with New Models …
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I Come Neither to Praise Nor Bury MARC
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. – Antony, in The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare My esteemed colleague Thom Hickey, who knows the MARC format more intimately …
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The Life of a Lowly MARC Subfield
Science uses the art of observation to unearth truth. Sometimes the observation is minutely focused on a small constituent of a much larger ecosystem. By doing this, it can be …
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New MARC Usage Data Available
I just finished updating my “MARC Usage in WorldCat” web site that summarizes and reports on how MARC elements have been used in the 333,518,928 MARC records in WorldCat as of …
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LC and OCLC Collaborate on Linked Data
As we have said before, the Library of Congress and OCLC have been sharing information and approaches regarding library linked data. In a nutshell, we have two different use cases …
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Working Together to Clarify Approaches to Library Linked Data
As we announced earlier in the month, we have been communicating and collaborating with the Library of Congress over our different approaches to library linked data. The Library of Congress …
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