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Instructions: Changing and reporting duplicate bib records [OCLC]

Tags: oclc, worldcat on 2008-11-11 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Thingology (LibraryThing's ideas blog): Open Library

Tags: librarything, open-library, worldcat on 2008-06-26 and saved by2 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Google Book Search and WorldCat agreement [OCLC]

"Google recently released an API that provides links to books in Google Book Search using ISBNs, LCCNs and OCLC numbers. This API allows WorldCat.org users to link to some books that Google has scanned through a “Get It” link. The link works both ways. If a user finds a book in Google Book Search, a link can often be tracked back to local libraries through WorldCat.org"

Tags: worldcat, oclc on 2008-05-20 -All Annotations (0) -About

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ASIS&T 2007: Next-Generation Catalog: Prototypes and Prospects (RSS4Lib)

Tags: oclc, opacs, worldcat on 2007-10-24 -All Annotations (0) -About

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WorldCat.org
Things under development recently:

Personal profiles, citations (in various standard forms);

List creation/management/sharing, expanded metadata coverage to better expose collections of interest to users;

Personalization -- features being developed now.
OCLC wants to get into job of citation management -- moving in that direction.
OCLC measuring traffic. in 2006/7, and 129.4 million referrals from partner sites to Open WorldCat landing page. 7.6 million clickthroughs from Open WorldCat to library services -- this is huge.
WorldCat Local: Not in original plan to release a next-generation catalog. But from library demand, it came about. OCLC "doesn't do portals" -- it's just a search box. Service is centrally-hosted, customized view and search algorithm. A library gets a search box and a custom URL. Standard search algorithm is 'tweaked' to present local items first. Local holdings displayed in record.
Upcoming features:

Institution search

Identities integration (http://orlabs.oclc.org/identitie
NGC: Next Generation Catalog
Andrew Pace

Our patrons are already "next generation"; it's our systems that aren't. Quick demo of Endeca -- faceted browsing, shelf browsing, etc.
hy do Endeca? Unresponsive vendors
What's the big picture? Improve quality of catalog, exploit data already in the catalog. Build a more flexible catalog tool that can be integrated with future tools not yet invented.
Why do Endeca? Facets were a nice byproduct, but relevance ranking was the target. There's little in the literature about relevance ranking for bibliographic surrogates. Improved response time enhanced natural language searching, and true browsing. Automatic word stemming (for certain words).
Sits on top of library catalog system. Daily data load from catalog. Used to improve the discovery process.
From July 06 to Jan 07... 67% of users do search. 20% do browse. 8% do pure navigation (through LCSH headings).
26% of navigation is by subject topics -- people are refining their searches by subject.
The "revolutionary war" problem. A search in catalog gives you LCSH subject headings. U.S. revolution gets 10 pages of subject records. In Endeca, working on this. Do you get the top n subjects in browse?
eXtensible Catalog
Judy Briden

The eXtensible Catalog (XC) is a project to design and build a system that provides libraries an alternative way to reveal library collection.