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Enhancing VIAF with WorldCat
2013 May Thomas Hickey OCLC Chief Scientist
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Current relationship WorldCat source of some bibliographic data
We use OCLC’s cover art service Link to WorldCat Identities About a third of the sources come from WorldCat
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Vision Expand and enrich VIAF using information from WorldCat
Keep the relationship at ‘arms length’ Continue to support non-WorldCat sources of authority and bibliographic records Make some WorldCat derivatives public Try to avoid interfering with current VIAF functionality
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What can WorldCat offer?
We are starting to create authorities based on WorldCat Multilingual Bibs Work/Expression records WorldCat Identities has many names not in VIAF
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WorldCat Identities Could it be just an end-user view of VIAF?
Do we need such a view? How much Identities information do we want in VIAF?
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WorldCat Identities Possibilities
Titles Coauthors Publication history Works about New names Genres Class #’s Roles Related names Subjects Metrics
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What do you think?
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