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Lisbon 9 October 2008. OCLC and FRBR. Janifer Gatenby Research Integration and Standards OCLC, Leiden. Agenda. WorldCat coverage Implementations of FRBR Manifestations and Works Authorities FRBR web and data services Research projects and the future. WorldCat: Multi-lingual resource.
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Lisbon 9 October 2008 OCLC and FRBR Janifer Gatenby Research Integration and Standards OCLC, Leiden
Agenda • WorldCat coverage • Implementations of FRBR • Manifestations and Works • Authorities • FRBR web and data services • Research projects and the future
WorldCat: Multi-lingual resource Total Records: 110,861,114 Holdings: 1,300 million Libraries: 69,000 Articles: 60 million & growing
FY09 Data Loading Coming: National Library of China Bibliothèque Nationale de France U. Québec Unity UK Target load for 2008 / 2009 300-500 million
Implementations of FRBR WorldCat FictionFinder WorldCat Identities
WorldCat is FRBRised http://www.worldcat.org
WorldCat and FRBR • WorldCat is “FRBRised” • 110 million records, 85 million works (1.3 manifestations per work) • How achieved • Algorithm • Table of uniform titles to ignore • Xref tables (large) • Data mining WorldCat • VIAF matching techniques
FRBR Web and data services xISBN xOCLC xISSN WorldCat API Work Cluster Service
WorldCat xISBN & xISSN • Web services to find all related editions of a book or serial • Easily incorporated into library catalogs, Web sites, and other library applications • See http://worldcat.org/devnet for more info 100+ ISBNs for Sorcerers Stone 32 English (US and UK) 9 Spanish 3 Russian, German, Finnish , Latin 2 Chinese, Czech, French, Korean, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Turkish, Welsh, 1 Afrikaans, Albanian, Armenian, Basque, Bengali, Georgian, Galician, Gaelic, Ancient Greek, Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malayalam, Sherpa, Slovenian, Swedish, Thai, Ukranian, Urdu 16 Audio 59 Book
ISSN History Tool http://worldcat.org/xissn/titlehistory?issn=0888-5885
xOCLC • http://xisbn.worldcat.org/xisbnadmin/xoclcnum/index.htm • Submit OCLC number • Receive related identifiers sorted by holdings occurrence • total WorldCat records: 110,861,884 • total records with ISBNs: 22,739,250 (20.51%) • total records with LCCNs: 12,279,387 (11.07% http://xisbn.worldcat.org/xisbnadmin/xoclcnum/stat.htm
Integrate WorldCat data FRBR work clusters Accepts: SRU & OpenSearch Outputs: MARCXML, Dublin Core, RSS, Atom WorldCat Grid Developers’ Network: http://www.worldcat.org/devnet/blog/ http://worldcat.org/devnet/wiki/SearchAPIDemos http://www.worldcat.org/blogs/ WorldCat API
Data export service provision of work level identifiers associated with a member’s subset of WorldCat Work Cluster Service
SRU record update – real time exposure SRU UPDATE PiCarta NCC PUSH L O G GGC SRU UPDATE M21 WorldCat WorldCat identifiers, FRBR work id synchronisation
Research Projects and the Future VIAF DAI Identities Hub GLIMIR
VIAF Invitation to extend: 2008
DAI – Digital Author Identifier • SURF requires all researchers to have • Identification which is registered in • The Dutch National Union Catalogue • Authority file • Investigating loading Dutch • Authority file to VIAF
End user editing Phases Merging identities Move selected works from one identity to another Create new identity Edit an identity Additional authority information under consideration Institution affiliations Subject areas Birth and death dates Email addresses Co-authors Identities Hub (OR / RLG partners project) Coming 2009: WorldCat Identities API – LCCN & name search
Global Library Manifestation Identifier No one single manifestation identifier ISBN, ISSN, ISMN (music), ISRC (sound recordings), V-ISAN (audio-visual) Only 30% of WorldCat resources have an international identifier GLIMIR Identifiers are the key to navigation among web sites for resources & information about resources; & thus the key to mash-ups
A subsidiary of the US ISBN Agency Outside use of OCLC identifiers….
Linking inwards • Permalinks • Simple URLs permitting direct access into WorldCat • WorldCat API • Identifiers give direct access to metadata and thence enriched content & full text www.worldcat.org/oclc/225507364
View point of libraries • All resources identified in a global scheme • Consolidate hits for better ranking • Possible to do cross database links more reliably; mash-ups • Improved quality of WorldCat • Better exposure • Facilitates cataloguing
Family of Identifiers ISCI WCat Identities, VIAF ISNI, ISIL Work FRBR clusters ISTC, ISWC, ISAN Authors Subjects, Dewey + GLIMIR ISBN, ISSN, ISMN, V-ISAN
Linked content at the right level Biographies, affiliations Work Reviews, evaluation, lists, prizes Authors Subjects, Dewey + Full text links, usage statistics, cover art, holdings