OCLC in the Digital Market - Kansalliskirjasto in the Digital Market ... Innovation through VIAF ......
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IFLA Columbus • 13 – 19 August 2016
OCLC in the Digital MarketEric van LubeekManaging Director, OCLC EMEA & APAC
WorldCat on a global scale482 languages represented in WorldCat, including:
August 2016
61% Non-English
39% English
English 142 Million
German 47 Million
French 34 Million
Spanish 17 Million
Chinese 11 Million
Japanese 10 Million
Italian 8 Million
Dutch 6 Million
Russian 5.4 Million
Swedish 4.7 Million
Polish 4.4 Million
Hebrew 4.4 Million
OCLC and the Library of Congress (LC)Ongoing:• Registering LC’s collection in WorldCat• NACO node for LC Name Authority File• PCC task groups
Collaborative activities:• Consultation on drafts of BIBFRAME• Reconciliation of Work IDs• Modelling for “place” in bibliographic
descriptions
CBS – Metadata Hub
NLA
ABES
BSZ
UnityUK
BnF
SwissBib
HeBISGBV
DNB
KB GGC
ISNI
National Libraries
Regional Centers
WWW
Transition to WorldShare
NLA
ABES
BSZ
UnityUK
BnF
SwissBib
HeBISGBV
DNBISNI
National Libraries
Regional Centers
WorldShare Platform
Te Puna
UKB
SA Cat
WWW
Innovation through VIAF
• A merged view of the world’s authorityfiles
• Started in 2002, online for a decade;40 sources
• 180M source records• Integral to FRBR processing of
Worldcat; most highly used linked datasource for libraries
Virtual International Authority File
Libraries
Text Rights
Music RightsTrade Sources
Encyclopaedias
Researchers & Professional
cross-domain bridging-domains
Archive / museums(coming)
Library linked data is not…
A solution forall challengesA solution forall challenges
ContextualIntuitiveInternationalCollaborativeShareable in the open Web
...about improving discovery
ContextualIntuitiveInternationalCollaborativeShareable in the open Web
...about improving discovery
But it is...
WorldCat Person Entity Lookup Pilot“Search”API usingtext string
Janet A. Smith
Name Authority File 2
Janet B. A. Smith
Name Authority File 1
Janet B. Adam Smith
Name Authority File 3
Janet Adam SmithName Authority File 4
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janet smith