1. Enhancing VIAF with WorldCat
2013 May
Thomas Hickey
OCLC Chief Scientist

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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?

6. WorldCat Identities Possibilities
Titles
Coauthors
Publication history
Works about
New names
Genres
Class #’s
Roles
Related names
Subjects
Metrics

7. What do you think?