Library Cataloging
OCLC
Tim Bray, well know in the XML crowd, has an essay on OCLC on his site.
It's Time, Long past time, in fact, to take the worlds' OPACs, and especially WorldCat, and build a general-purpose research tool for everybody; with this and Google we would really be covering the bases.The community of librarians has devoted tens of thousands of lives, in aggregate, to the stewardship of this remarkable body of knowledge, and it is just wrong that it isn't an everyday part of the Web.
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Next-generation Policy For Worldcat Records - Open For Community Review
Image via CrunchBaseNews from OCLC.The OCLC Record Use Policy Council members have been working for the past few months to develop the next generation of a WorldCat use policy, and we are pleased to announce that the draft document, WorldCat Rights and...
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Worldcat Search Api And Worldcat Basic Api
Positive news from OCLC about the WorldCat API. New limit by holdings for WorldCat Search API Good news for WorldCat Search API WSkey holders. The WorldCat Search API has been enhanced. You can now limit the results returned to an individual library's...
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Oclc Record Sharing News
By now everyone must have seen something about the recent OCLC move to update their position on sharing records. It has been covered and discussed in many weblogs, podcasts and magazine articles. Now all that discussion has led OCLC to reconsider their...
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Oclc's Openurl Referer For Ie
News from OCLC about an OpenURL referer.OCLC's OpenURL Referrer is now available for Internet Explorer! Previously available only for Firefox, this popular browser extension inserts OpenURLs into Google Scholar and Google News Archive search results....
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Oclc
The Nov./Dec. issue of Searcher has an editorial about OCLC. It first complains about OCLC suing the NY hotel over using Dewey and says it should focus on important tasks. The example it gives is OCLC opening up the catalog to Google. That, the article...
Library Cataloging