ISBNs in WorldCat
Recently 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 …
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We Want to Send You to SemTechBiz
SemTechBiz is a major conference for those who are using semantic web technologies like linked data, RDF, Schema.org, etc. It is being held June 2-5 in San Francisco and OCLC …
Read MoreRegional print management and cooperative infrastructure: maps and gaps
We are excited to be working with the Ohio State University (OSU) and the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) on a new project to explore the contours of a regional …
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“Cataloging Unchained”
Lorcan 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 …
Read MoreAdventures in Hadoop, #5: String Searching vs. Record Parsing
In a previous post I described how I could now string search WorldCat using the Research compute cluster and Hadoop. This means I can find any string of characters anywhere in a …
Read MoreTop Corporate Names in WorldCat
As I explained earlier, I have been doing some investigations into how MARC has been used over the last several decades. Curious about the contents of the 110 $a (corporate …
Read MoreAdventures in Hadoop, #3: String Searching WorldCat
OK, I admit it. Ever since I joined OCLC over five years ago I’ve harbored a dream. My dream was to one day string search WorldCat. What that means is …
Read MoreAdventures in Hadoop, #2: “Hello World”
In my first adventure I introduced Hadoop and the computer cluster upon which we will be running it as we perform various data mining procedures. Now I will begin to …
Read MoreAdventures in Hadoop, #1: Introduction and the Research Cluster
What is it with geeks and wacky names, anyway? Despite what it sounds like, Hadoop is neither a rarely-glimpsed mammal from Tasmania, nor a children’s board game. Nope, rather it …
Read MoreLinked Data – for the enlightened non-geek reader (or dummies) (or managers)
OCLC had some big announcements about linked data this past week. My colleagues, Roy Tennant and Richard Wallis, both have good blog posts (Roy’s) (Richard’s) explaining the what and the …
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