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Outgoing: Bibliographic Statistics 2009

Some interesting statistics about how MARC usage has changed in recent OCLC cataloging--perhaps due to the influx of non-US cataloging

OAIster records in WorldCat.org [OCLC]

"The University of Michigan and OCLC today announced that they have successfully transitioned the OAIster database to OCLC to ensure continued public access to open-archive collections, and to expand the visibility of these collections to millions of information seekers through OCLC services.

OAIster records are now fully accessible through WorldCat.org, and will be included in WorldCat.org search results along with records from thousands of libraries worldwide that add their holdings to WorldCat. OCLC plans to release a freely accessible, discrete view of the OAIster records in January 2010 through a URL specific to OAIster."

New Company SkyRiver Sparks Cataloging Competition with OCLC - 10/6/2009 - Library Journal

SkyRiver -- a new competitor for OCLC cataloging services -- with ties to Innovative Interfaces

Record Use Policy Council [OCLC]

OCLC has appointed a new council to develop a new records use policy--hopefully this will be an open process unlike the last go-round.

Summon 'web scale'? I don't think so.

Clarification on OCLC/OAIster Transfer

"Clarification" on the OCLC/OAIster terms--the comments are interesting

The Straight Dope on OAIster

Inquiring Librarian: Completely backwards

Blog post discusses OCLC's recent message to OAI-PMH data providers asking them to agree to a set of Terms & Conditions allowing OCLC to include data harvested via OAI-PMH in both free and toll services that OCLC provides.

RDA and OCLC [OCLC]

OCLC's participation in planning for RDA

Bridge: Worldcat in Context

Software using WorldCat API to produce a customized view of Worldcat. Page includes a nice screen cast describing Bridge

Streamline Book Metadata Workflow White Paper

Streamlining Book Metadata Workflow
by Judy Luther (Informed Strategies)

Abstract: The white paper was commissioned by NISO and OCLC as a follow-up to the Symposium for Publishers and Librarians held by OCLC on March 18-19, 2009 to discuss book metadata. This paper analyzes the current state of metadata creation, exchange, and use throughout the book supply chain. With the number of book formats multiplying and the amount of digital content growing rapidly, the metadata required to support the discovery, sale, and use of content by a global audience is increasing exponentially. At the same time economic pressures on all stakeholders in the supply chain from publishers, wholesalers, booksellers, metadata vendors, and librarians present greater challenges to providing quality and comprehensive metadata at every point in the cycle. Through interviews with over 30 industry representatives, Luther has created a book metadata exchange map illustrating the process and has identified opportunities for eliminating redundancies and making the entire process more efficient.

OCLC and Kirtas Technologies partner to provide members and customers with streamlined access to digitized content

"ROCHESTER, N.Y., JUNE 16, 2009 - Kirtas Technologies, the worldwide leader in bound-book digitization, and OCLC, a global online library service and research organization; have signed an agreement that will enable streamlined access to the ever-increasing numbers of digitized books to users of OCLC's WorldCat and Kirtasbooks.com.

As part of the agreement, OCLC will now be able to provide its users with data indicating that a book is either available as digitized content or that it can be made available for digitization."

About Classify [OCLC - ResearchWorks]

"Classify is a prototype service designed to support the assignment of classification numbers for books, DVDs, CDs, and many other types of materials.

Overview

The prototype provides access to more than 36 million WorldCat records that contain Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) numbers, Library of Congress Classification (LCC) numbers, or National Library of Medicine (NLM) Classification numbers.

The records are grouped using the OCLC FRBR Work-Set algorithm resulting in a work-level summary of the class numbers assigned a title. You can retrieve a classification summary by ISBN, ISSN, UPC, OCLC number, or author/title."

International Cataloging:Use Non-Latin Scripts

Instructions for using non-Roman scripts in the OCLC Cataloging client

ALA Event Registration [OCLC]

WorldCatLocal-OCLCAnnouncesStrategy [OCLC]

"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."

OCLC Members Council Record Use Policy Update

The Review Board on the proposed OCLC Record Use Policy made an interim report to the Members' Council on Monday May 18, 2009.

Jennifer Younger, the Chair of the Board, gave our report and it has been recorded. The podcast and the accompanying PowerPoint slides are on the Review Board's web page: http://www.oclc.org/us/en/worldcat/catalog/policy/board/default.htm

Canadian Subject Headings [OCLC]

Library and Archives Canada and OCLC announce that Canadian Subject Headings are now included as part of OCLC's Terminologies Service

Online Catalogs: What Users and Librarians Want [OCLC - Membership reports]

"This new report summarizes the findings of research conducted by OCLC on what constitutes quality in library online catalogs from both end users' and librarians' points of view. Key findings:

* The end user's experience of the delivery of wanted items is as important, if not more important, than his or her discovery experience.
* End users rely on and expect enhanced content including summaries/abstracts and tables of contents.
* An advanced search option (supporting fielded searching) and facets help end users refine searches, navigate, browse and manage large result sets.
* Important differences exist between the catalog data quality priorities of end users and those who work in libraries.
* Librarians and library staff, like end users, approach catalogs and catalog data purposefully. End users generally want to find and obtain needed information; librarians and library staff generally have work responsibilities to carry out. The work roles of librarians and staff influence their data quality preferences.
* Librarians' choice of data quality enhancements reflects their understanding of the importance of accurate, structured data in the catalog."

OCLC Response to the WorldCat Local Special Collections and Archives Task Force

Summary:
The WorldCat Special Collections and Archives Task Force final report includes an executive summary with four major recommendations. Specific issues identified by the task force are prioritized as high, medium, and lower significance. A separate group of problems with data was
also identified.

This response to the report begins with background on the task force and then treats each major and specific recommendation. OCLC provides a timeline for development or other activity for all the major recommendations and nine of the fourteen specific recommendations (numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, and 12). The timelines range from April 2009 into the future. Two recommendations (numbers 6 and 9) have been assigned problem reports to be investigated and resolved as part of monthly maintenance. Two recommendations (numbers 11 and 14) have no OCLC action, as the system is working as designed. Recommendation 13 has been fixed.

WorldCat Local Special Collections and Archives Task Force Final Report

"The WorldCat Local (WCL) Special Collections Task Force was convened by OCLC to make recommendations to improve discovery of special collections and archival materials in local implementations of WCL."

Scholarly Information Practices in the Online Environment

"Scholarly Information Practices in the Online Environment: Themes from the Literature and Implications for Library Service Development" by Carole L. Palmer, Lauren C. Teffeau and Carrie M. Pirmann.

"This report provides an expert review of the burgeoning literature on disciplinary research behaviors, synthesizes findings from decades of research on scholarly information practices and identifies key implications for libraries.

It was commissioned by OCLC Research and the RLG Partnership to increase awareness of the diverse evidence base on this topic and to stimulate further reflection on its importance for the research library community."

Expert Community Experiment [OCLC - Quality control]

"In response to requests from the cataloging community, OCLC is introducing the Expert Community Experiment, which enables cataloging members to make more changes to WorldCat records. During the Experiment, members with full-level cataloging authorizations have the ability to improve and upgrade WorldCat master records. The Experiment begins in February 2009 and lasts six months."

This is OCLC's response to the question 'what if WorldCat were more like Wikipedia'--I wonder how succesful this will be, considering the questions asked during the webinar. It was clear that many of the participants hadn't been making upgrades and doing enrichment as previously possible with the same authorization level. So, will this change people's behavior???

ARL Task Force - Proposed OCLC Policy

Ad Hoc Task Force to Review the Proposed OCLC Policy for Use and Transfer of WorldCat Records
Final Report to the ARL Board

January 30, 2009

Expert Community Experiment [OCLC - Quality control]

"In response to requests from the cataloging community, OCLC is introducing the Expert Community Experiment which enables cataloging members to make more changes to WorldCat records. During the Experiment, members with full level cataloging authorizations have the ability to improve and upgrade WorldCat master records. The Experiment begins in February 2009, and lasts six months."

GovDoc [OCLC - Cataloging and Metadata]

The OCLC GovDoc service, available to regional and selective depository libraries, provides up-to-date, MARC-format cataloging records for U.S. government documents. As a GovDoc subscriber, your library regularly receives bibliographic records for only the government documents it holds. GovDoc is available to all federal depository libraries-institutional OCLC membership is not required to use the service.

Summary of the Policy for Use and Transfer of WorldCat Records [OCLC - A global catalog]

This summary page has links to current guidelines; proposed policy and FAQ

Why you can't find a library book in your search engine | Technology | The Guardian

Review Board on Shared Records [OCLC]

"OCLC Members Council and the OCLC Board of Trustees will jointly convene a Review Board of Shared Data Creation and Stewardship to represent the membership and inform OCLC on the principles and best practices for sharing library data. The group will discuss the Policy for Use and Transfer of WorldCat Records with the OCLC membership and library community.

The purpose of this Review Board is to engage the membership and solicit feedback and questions before the new policy is implemented. In order to allow sufficient time for feedback and discussion, implementation of the Policy will be delayed until the third quarter of the 2009 calendar year."

Stealing Your Library: The OCLC Powergrab (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought)

Drawing a line in the sand, Part 1: The importance of open library metadata B+ Everybody's Libraries

A 3-part blog on the OCLC record-use policy and what steps we could take

Notes on OCLC's Updated Record Use Policy - Metalogue

KAren Calhoun's blog on the new OCLC policy

Maelstrom Over Metadata :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education's Source for News, Views and Jobs

More on the new OCLC policy restricting reuse of records.

Wired Campus: Librarians Want to Out-Google Google With a Better Search Engine - Chronicle.com

Called Reference Extract, the project is being developed by the Online Computer Library Center and the information schools of Syracuse University and the University of Washington. OCLC is an international cooperative that shares resources among more than 69,000 libraries in 112 countries and territories. A $100,000 grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is covering planning costs.

According to the project proposal, the search engine "will be built for maximum credibility by relying on the expertise and credibility judgments of librarians from around the globe."

Frequently asked questions [OCLC - Summary of the Policy for Use and Transfer of WorldCat Records]

Notes on OCLC's Updated Record Use Policy - Metalogue

Librarian's toolbox [OCLC - Home]

Librarian's toolbox

Links to popular OCLC resources

Our web statistics indicate that these links represent the most-often used resources on our web site.

OCLC Product Services

reports, records, etc.

Network Controlled Vocabularies Program [OCLC - Renovating Descriptive

Problem statement: Cultural heritage, bibliographic and archival communities use different controlled vocabularies for the resources that they manage. These controlled vocabularies may not be recognized by very diverse user communities, and ignored by large commercial information hubs and Internet search engines. Metadata needs to flow among diverse environments and reach users wherever they are. The semantic, hierarchical, and granular relationships in controlled vocabularies are often lost when retrieved outside the environment in which they were created.

Make Metadata Creation Processes More Effective Program [OCLC - Renovating Descriptive

Problem statement: Creating metadata that suits local needs, readily aggregates across communities, and is easily exposed to Internet search engines remains a costly enterprise. Metadata created by libraries, archives and museums is generally not available to the user communities that look first to Internet search engines. Although mapping data structures has become a commonplace solution to integrate descriptions, real interoperability across the libraries, archives and museums communities cannot be achieved without addressing differences of description at the data-content level.

Renovating Descriptive and Organizing Practices

Objective: Engage the RLG partnership in adapting descriptive practice to economic realities, user expectations, and the requirements of network-level services. Set new expectations for investing in metadata creation and maintenance, model attendant workflows, and facilitate the discovery of research institutions' resources by users wherever they are.

WorldCat xISSN

At a glance

* A new Web service that provides information about serial publications' history, variant editions, and current metadata
* Offers machine-ready XML service, for easy integration into library applications
* A human-ready demonstration interface known as Title History available at no charge
* Included at no extra charge in OCLC cataloging subscriptions

Google Book Search and WorldCat agreement [OCLC]

DUBLIN, Ohio, USA, 19 May 2008-OCLC and Google Inc. have signed an agreement to exchange data that will facilitate the discovery of library collections through Google search services.

Under terms of the agreement, OCLC member libraries participating in the Google Book Search^TM program, which makes the full text of more than one million books searchable, may share their WorldCat-derived MARC records with Google to better facilitate discovery of library collections through Google.

WorldCat Developers' Network

The WorldCat Developer's Network is a community of developers collaborating in a "sandbox" environment in order to propose, discuss and test WorldCat Grid Services. This open source, code-sharing infrastructure improves the value of OCLC data for all users by encouraging new Grid Service uses.

WorldCat Affiliate Tools [WorldCat.org]

WorldCat Affiliate Services
Let users of your Web site discover content and resources in WorldCat libraries worldwide

Make library-based resources part of your Web experience! WorldCat Affiliate Services integrate seamlessly into your application and let your users see complementary sources of information, look up physical items in WorldCat member libraries, and link to electronic resources such as full-text articles.

These tools provide benefits for any Web site or Web-enabled application, including search engines, online databases, e-commerce sites, e-learning environments as well as library systems and similar information services. Information is drawn from quality bibliographic and institutional metadata contributed and updated by thousands of librarians and other information professionals.

xISSN History Visualization Tool [OCLC - WorldCat Affiliate tools]

From Karen S-Y (RLG):

"Tracking serial title changes outside the MARC record. Serial title changes can be challenging, and it can be difficult to parse all of them from what's in MARC records. OCLC recently introduced a new xISSN Web service, and it includes a neat Title History tool. (Lorcan Dempsey blogged about it at http://orweblog.oclc.org/archives/001664.html - he includes one of the examples in the Title History visualization tool, the one for 0888-5885, the Industrial and engineering chemical research.) My favorite of the examples is the one for Journal of the Chemical Society, 0368-1769 which I thought demonstrates just how complicated title histories can be!"

Next Generation Cataloging [OCLC - Publishers and material vendors]

"OCLC has launched a pilot project to explore upstream metadata capture and enhancement using publisher and vendor ONIX metadata. Pilot partners from the publishing, vendor and library communities are assisting us in this effort. We hope the pilotwill result in ongoing processes for the early addition of new title metadata to WorldCat and enhanced quality and consistency in upstream title metadata used by multiple channels."

Terminologies Research Project -- Web Services Pilot

"Terminology Services are web-based services for controlled vocabularies. More than 4.5 million terms, 2.4 million concept links, and 2 million contextual data elements are accessible to your applications.

Each vocabulary is fully indexed and searchable. Vocabulary data is retrievable in multiple representations including the MARC authority format, used by libraries, and the SKOS Core Vocabulary used in Semantic Web applications."

Classify [OCLC]

Classify is a prototype service designed to support the assignment of classification numbers for books, DVDs, CDs, and many other types of materials.
Overview

WorldCat Cataloging Partners [OCLC - Cataloging and Metadata]

Formerly Promptcat

Searching Worldcat Indexes [OCLC]

From Glenn E. Patton:

"To get a sense of which MARC data elements are used in the various indexes for WorldCat, take a look at "Searching WorldCat Indexes" (http://www.oclc.org/support/documentation/worldcat/searching/searchworl
dcatindexes/). Click on "List of Fields and Subfields Indexed in Tag Order" in the navigation bar on the left of the screen to see a list of MARC elements and the indexes in which they are used."

Google Book Search and WorldCat agreement [OCLC]

DUBLIN, Ohio, USA, 19 May 2008-OCLC and Google Inc. have signed an agreement to exchange data that will facilitate the discovery of library collections through Google search services.

Controlling names in WorldCat

Thom Hickey describes a project that is controlling millions of headings in OCLC by linking them to the NACO authority files

"Right now we are working our way through the a set of fairly easy 26 million headings, personal names that match an authority record on multiple subfields."

[I guess 'easy' is relative]

RLG Programs [OCLC - Programs and Research]

The new RLG page on the new OCLC website

WorldCat Identities

The WorldCat Identities project alongs users to search and browse over 25 million personal and corporate authors. Udsing data-maing techniques, OCLC Research has pulled information on authors from the WorldCat database, including alterantive forms of names, publication timelines (by & about), genres and subjects.

2008:The Year of Non-Latin References in LC/NACO Authority Records

Karen S-Y blogs about the OCLC project to add non-roman cross references to authority records, based on data-mining of bibliographic records and the WorlCat Identities project

sharing.pdf (application/pdf Object)

Terminologies Services Meeting - September 12, 2007

"The goal of the terminologies services meeting was to determine which components of a terminologies service the participants (drawn from the RLG Programs partnership and representing a wide range of different communities and roles) find the most compelling. Desired meeting outcomes included a list of the most important features and use-cases in order to help prioritize efforts of RLG Programs and OCLC Research in this area of work."

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Find Authority Records [OCLC]

Searching instructions for OCLC authority files

OCLC Cataloging Authorization Levels

"A reference card (4 pp.) listing (1) cataloging activities authorized for each OCLC authorization level, including Search, Limited, Full, and higher, and (2) types of master record updates authorized for Full and higher authorizations. Covers both the Connexion browser and client."

Especially note the last page which notes types of record updates possible (Minimal level upgrade, database enrichment, and enhance)

OCLC - WorldCat Collection Sets

Records sets for electronic and microform collections available for purchase

OCLC Bibliographic Formats and Standards [OCLC]

Using OCLC's Connexion Client: A Guide for RLIN21 Users

A new document, Using OCLC's Connexion Client: A Guide for RLIN21 Users, is now available. This 42-page user guide provides everything RLIN21 users need to get started as they make the transition to OCLC's Connexion client. Here is a sampling of sections from this guide:

Basic Searching
Steps in Copy Cataloging
Modifying Records
Original Cataloging in Connexion
Deriving Records
An Introduction to Constant Data
Cataloging with Non-Latin Scripts in Connexion Client
Inputting Diactitics
Connexion Keyboard Shortcuts and a Word About Macros
Importing Text Strings from RLIN21 Client

WorldCat search toolbars and plug-ins [OCLC - WorldCat]

International Cataloging:Use Non-Latin Scripts [OCLC]

Instructions for using Connexion and non-Latin scripts.

System Alerts [OCLC]

OCLC's web page to track problems with systems

"Partnering with OCLC for Cataloging and Selection."

Powerpoint presentation on OCLC WorldCat Selection service (from Jan. '07 ALA Midwinter)

PennTags Feed for /tag/oclc

Outgoing: Bibliographic Statistics 2009

OAIster records in WorldCat.org [OCLC]

New Company SkyRiver Sparks Cataloging Competition with OCLC - 10/6/2009 - Library Journal

Record Use Policy Council [OCLC]

Summon 'web scale'? I don't think so.

Clarification on OCLC/OAIster Transfer

The Straight Dope on OAIster

Inquiring Librarian: Completely backwards

RDA and OCLC [OCLC]

Bridge: Worldcat in Context

Streamline Book Metadata Workflow White Paper

OCLC and Kirtas Technologies partner to provide members and customers with streamlined access to digitized content

About Classify [OCLC - ResearchWorks]

International Cataloging:Use Non-Latin Scripts

ALA Event Registration [OCLC]

WorldCatLocal-OCLCAnnouncesStrategy [OCLC]

OCLC Members Council Record Use Policy Update

Canadian Subject Headings [OCLC]

Online Catalogs: What Users and Librarians Want [OCLC - Membership reports]

OCLC Response to the WorldCat Local Special Collections and Archives Task Force

WorldCat Local Special Collections and Archives Task Force Final Report

Scholarly Information Practices in the Online Environment

Expert Community Experiment [OCLC - Quality control]

ARL Task Force - Proposed OCLC Policy

Expert Community Experiment [OCLC - Quality control]

GovDoc [OCLC - Cataloging and Metadata]

Summary of the Policy for Use and Transfer of WorldCat Records [OCLC - A global catalog]

Why you can't find a library book in your search engine | Technology | The Guardian

Review Board on Shared Records [OCLC]

Stealing Your Library: The OCLC Powergrab (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought)

Drawing a line in the sand, Part 1: The importance of open library metadata B+ Everybody's Libraries

Notes on OCLC's Updated Record Use Policy - Metalogue

Maelstrom Over Metadata :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education's Source for News, Views and Jobs

Wired Campus: Librarians Want to Out-Google Google With a Better Search Engine - Chronicle.com

Frequently asked questions [OCLC - Summary of the Policy for Use and Transfer of WorldCat Records]

Notes on OCLC's Updated Record Use Policy - Metalogue

Librarian's toolbox [OCLC - Home]

OCLC Product Services

Network Controlled Vocabularies Program [OCLC - Renovating Descriptive

Make Metadata Creation Processes More Effective Program [OCLC - Renovating Descriptive

Renovating Descriptive and Organizing Practices

WorldCat xISSN

Google Book Search and WorldCat agreement [OCLC]

WorldCat Developers' Network

WorldCat Affiliate Tools [WorldCat.org]

xISSN History Visualization Tool [OCLC - WorldCat Affiliate tools]

Next Generation Cataloging [OCLC - Publishers and material vendors]

Terminologies Research Project -- Web Services Pilot

Classify [OCLC]

WorldCat Cataloging Partners [OCLC - Cataloging and Metadata]

Searching Worldcat Indexes [OCLC]

Google Book Search and WorldCat agreement [OCLC]

Controlling names in WorldCat

RLG Programs [OCLC - Programs and Research]

WorldCat Identities

2008:The Year of Non-Latin References in LC/NACO Authority Records

sharing.pdf (application/pdf Object)

Terminologies Services Meeting - September 12, 2007

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Find Authority Records [OCLC]

OCLC Cataloging Authorization Levels

OCLC - WorldCat Collection Sets

OCLC Bibliographic Formats and Standards [OCLC]

Using OCLC's Connexion Client: A Guide for RLIN21 Users

WorldCat search toolbars and plug-ins [OCLC - WorldCat]

International Cataloging:Use Non-Latin Scripts [OCLC]

System Alerts [OCLC]

"Partnering with OCLC for Cataloging and Selection."

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