Library Cataloging
News from OCLC about the Expert Community Experiment. Seems like it is working just fine.
- Cip Records Enhanced
News for OCLC users, CIP records can now be enhanced. OCLC is pleased to announce to our cataloging members that additional functionality has been added to the Expert Community to enable upgrading of Cataloging in Publication (CIP) records by member libraries,...
- Expert Community Experiment
News from OCLC about their Expert Community Experiment.OCLC is offering one additional live Webinar to introduce the Expert Community Experiment. It will be held on March 24, 2009 at 2:30 PM Eastern Time. We would welcome your attendance....
- Expert Community Experiment
News from OCLC.Software changes needed for the Expert Community Experiment, which enables cataloging members to make more changes to WorldCat master records, were successfully installed on February 15th. During the experiment, members with full level...
- Technorati
Technorati is providing a search service for tags from Flickr, Delicious and Furl as well as weblogs that include the Technorati tag. I'm tagging this post as an experiment. If it works I may continue the experiment for a bit. Please let me know if...
- Foaf
FOAF : Using open standards to support community building by Brian Kelly appears in the latest issue of Ariadne. FOAF is an interesting concept and can provide one level of Web structure.This article has sought to describe FOAF and outline its potential,...
Library Cataloging
OCLC's Expert Community Experiment
News from OCLC about the Expert Community Experiment. Seems like it is working just fine.
In April, there were 19,489 Expert Community Experiment replaces (up from 18,910 in March). Activity since the start of the Experiment now totals 44,215 records replaced. There were 1025 institutions that did at least one replace in April. Individual institution numbers ranged from 1 institution doing more than 500 replaces and 5 institutions doing more that 400 replaces to 287 institutions doing 1 replace each.
Here are the number for the other types of replaces during the same time
period:Database Enrichment: 19,250Minimal-Level Upgrade: 14,568
Congratulations and thank you to all who have participated in the Experiment thus far. If you haven't yet tried this expanded capability to upgrade and enrich master records, take a look at the Experiment Guidelines and FAQ and give it a try.
Enhance Regular: 14,705Enhance National: 3,323CONSER Authentication: 1,547CONSER Maintenance: 6,010
- Cip Records Enhanced
News for OCLC users, CIP records can now be enhanced. OCLC is pleased to announce to our cataloging members that additional functionality has been added to the Expert Community to enable upgrading of Cataloging in Publication (CIP) records by member libraries,...
- Expert Community Experiment
News from OCLC about their Expert Community Experiment.OCLC is offering one additional live Webinar to introduce the Expert Community Experiment. It will be held on March 24, 2009 at 2:30 PM Eastern Time. We would welcome your attendance....
- Expert Community Experiment
News from OCLC.Software changes needed for the Expert Community Experiment, which enables cataloging members to make more changes to WorldCat master records, were successfully installed on February 15th. During the experiment, members with full level...
- Technorati
Technorati is providing a search service for tags from Flickr, Delicious and Furl as well as weblogs that include the Technorati tag. I'm tagging this post as an experiment. If it works I may continue the experiment for a bit. Please let me know if...
- Foaf
FOAF : Using open standards to support community building by Brian Kelly appears in the latest issue of Ariadne. FOAF is an interesting concept and can provide one level of Web structure.This article has sought to describe FOAF and outline its potential,...