Countries of Publication in WorldCat
I’m a data geek. I just love processing data in various ways to see what I can find out. So recently I decided to look into the countries of publication …
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I’m a data geek. I just love processing data in various ways to see what I can find out. So recently I decided to look into the countries of publication …
Read MoreAs part of my work to reveal exactly how the MARC standard has been used over the several decades it has existed (available at “MARC Usage in WorldCat”), I’ve always …
Read MoreThat was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers. It was initiated by Jonathan LeBreton of Temple, who noted the questions staff raised when describing voluminous …
Read MoreContributors to the Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) have generally been national libraries and other library agencies. We have just loaded into VIAF the first set of personal names from …
Read MoreGreat works are translated—the cream of the world’s cultural and knowledge heritage is shared by being translated. And many of them are represented by bibliographic records in WorldCat. A group …
Read MoreFor the last few years I have been part of a group of OCLC staff charged with articulating data sharing practices that are consistent with the WorldCat Rights and Responsibilities …
Read MoreYou may recall that a while back we announced that linked data had been added to WorldCat.org web pages. If you scroll down when viewing a single record you can …
Read MoreRecently a question came up on the BIBFRAME list about ISBNs, and how many of them were in MARC records. This is just the kind of question that OCLC Research …
Read MoreThis post is co authored by David Michelson, Vanderbilt University Over the past year OCLC Research has been working with a group of Syriac studies scholars with the goal of …
Read MoreLorcan Dempsey (VP of Research at OCLC) has long said that we need to “make our data work harder.” And for years that is exactly what OCLC Research has been …
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