WorldCat Identities Karen A. Coombs Product Manager, Developer Network WorldCat Mashathon UK Thursday, 13 May 2010 Liver & Mash

The Basics Introduction to Identities Link to an Identity using a persistent URL Link to an Identity from a Bib record using OpenURL Search for an Identity using the NameFinder Search for an Identity using SRU See Identities in action

Name Searches

Identity Record

Ways to Access and Response formats SRU searches Returns multiple results, Identity records are embedded in an SRU searchRetrieveResponse NameFinder Search stripped down search response format OpenURL or persistent URL the Identity record

Link to an Identity using a persistent URL Two forms: Feel free to try to hack your own URLs, but youre unlikely to get a hit unless you happen to have an LCCN

Link to an Identity from a Bib record using OpenURL &rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:identity&rft.namel ast=Hickey&rft.namefirst=Thomas&rft_id=info:oclcnum/ The boilerplate is mandatory namelast and oclcnum are usually sufficient When they result in no Identity or multiple Identities, then the namelast and namefirst are used in a NameFinder search and the results returned

Search for an Identity using the NameFinder The reverse form is accepted: fullName=levan,+ralph Use corporateName to restrict to corporate names Use familyName and firstName if you have a tricky 2-part last name

NameFinder Results Record LeVan, Ralph R. /identities/np-levan, ralph r np-levan, ralph r An architecture for scholarly… personal

NameFinder Results maxList (an optional parm on the request) is probably misnamed. It is actually the minimum number of names to return. Results are grouped by type and ranked within each type by a formula that combines usage and score.

NameFinder Result Types Types, in order of appearance, are: ExactMatchesWithDates ExactMatches ExactNameParts FuzzyFirstName FuzzyFamilyName FuzzyName FreeTextName

Search for an Identity using SRU Federates results from 4 other databases: Zillions of indexes NameFinder uses the SRU databases for all its searching

Identities in Search TRLN

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