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Information Today
September 6, 2012 |
OCLC Member Libraries Can Contribute Metadata to Europeana.eu Portal OCLC member institutions will be able to contribute metadata derived from OCLC's WorldCat database to the Europeana.eu portal in a manner that is consistent with OCLC's WorldCat Rights and Responsibilities for the OCLC Cooperative.   |
Information Today
November 24, 2008
Susanne Bjorner |
Europeana.eu Launches--Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well, but Temporarily Speechless The European Union-funded collaboration provides free access to some 2 million digital objects from libraries, museums, archives, and audio-visual collections in 27 member European countries. |
Information Today
May 30, 2013 |
OCLC Working With Libraries to Test Record Management Functionality OCLC is working with 13 libraries on three continents to beta test OCLC WorldShare Metadata Record Manager, which offers new record management functionality to enhance a library's ability to catalog its collections. |
Information Today
April 10, 2008 |
Article Records From British Library Now in WorldCat.org OCLC announced it has added some 20 million article-level metadata records to WorldCat.org from The British Library. |
Information Today
May 22, 2008
Barbara Quint |
OCLC Tightens Links to Google Book Search This week, OCLC signed an agreement confirming and increasing the links between OCLC's WorldCat.org free web service and Google Book Search. |
D-Lib
Sep/Oct 2012 |
In Brief and In the News Grant Awards Announcement: Museums for America... VIVO to Join DuraSpace Organization Incubator Initiative... EUscreen releases Online Exhibitions... |
Information Today
June 28, 2012
Katherine Allen |
New European Library Portal Launched The European Library is a new discovery service that provides access to the collections of the national libraries of 46 European countries, plus a growing number of research libraries. |
Information Today
November 8, 2010 |
OCLC and EBSCO Announce Expanded Data Exchange The new agreement is designed to create more value for libraries that subscribe to services from OCLC and EBSCO. |
Information Today
October 30, 2000
Barbara Quint |
With OCLC's New Strategy, Is the Earth's Largest Library in Sight? OCLC, the largest library online cooperative, is setting a new strategy that could move it as well as public and academic libraries across the country and the world into an emerging, unified, virtual library service on the Web... |
Information Today
June 25, 2013 |
OCLC Creates Metadata API to Improve WorldCat Cataloging Services The API helps OCLC members and partners build applications that allow them to catalog their collections on the OCLC WorldShare Platform, which supports OCLC's cloud-based services and applications worldwide. |
Information Today
October 19, 2009 |
OCLC Initiates Metadata Services for Publishers This is a new service that takes publishers' ONIX title metadata, enriches it using WorldCat mining and mapping techniques, and delivers the enhanced ONIX metadata back to the publishers for use in their systems. |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2015
van Veen et al. |
Semantic Enrichment: a Low-barrier Infrastructure and Proposal for Alignment Semantic enrichment provides new possibilities for discovery and presentation of our data. At the National Library of the Netherlands research department we have created a generic infrastructure for enriching objects from our collections with, for example, links to related information. |
Information Today
February 2, 2009
Paula J. Hane |
Open Solutions for Libraries Gain Momentum LibLime, an upstart company that has provided open source software solutions for libraries for several years, has made its move to the next frontier of openness by providing open data and open library content. |
Information Today
January 25, 2010 |
TV Archive Project to Supply Europeana EUscreen is a new project that will supply TV archive footage to Europeana. |
Searcher
January 2001
Barbara Quint |
Breach of Precedent Is Earth's largest library now in sight? |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2009
Laszlo Karman |
Report on the Workshop on Harvesting Metadata - Practices and Challenges Various issues, from the generous, European-level requirements to the individual partners' actual results and difficulties, were discussed. |
Information Today
January 24, 2011
Katherine Allen |
Europeana Publishes Strategic Plan To remain successful, the plan says, Europeana must move to a more distributed model, collaborating with other content aggregators and making its content available in the places where users congregate online, such as social networks and educational sites. |
D-Lib
Jan/Feb 2012 |
In Brief and In the News UNESCO endorses the IFLA Manifesto for Digital Libraries... Can culture on the web change peoples lives?... Europeana reaches 20 million items... |
Information Today
January 28, 2013 |
OCLC and Gale Expand Partnership OCLC and Gale agreed to make all Gale databases and archives fully discoverable through WorldCat Local and to explore broadening discoverability of Gale collections through other applications available through the OCLC WorldShare Platform. |
Information Today
February 23, 2004
Barbara Quint |
OCLC Opens Online Beta Test Site Now visitors can explore new features and services that may---or may not---debut on the full service in time. |
Information Today
July 16, 2006
Paula J. Hane |
OCLC to Open WorldCat Searching to the World In a move designed to reach users outside library environments, OCLC is planning to launch a new destination site and downloadable search box for searching the content of libraries participating in WorldCat. |
Information Today
April 23, 2007
Barbara Quint |
OCLC's WorldCat Local: A Promising Development for Library Patrons All librarians face the challenge of locating copies of hard-to-find books for patrons. If successful, this new pilot project could supply librarians everywhere with an invaluable service. |
D-Lib
January 2000
Gail M. Hodge |
Best Practices for Digital Archiving: An Information Life Cycle Approach Digital information is fragile in ways that differ from traditional technologies, such as paper or microfilm. It is more easily corrupted or altered without recognition... |
Information Today
April 9, 2012 |
International Name Authority Project Moves to OCLC VIAF, a project that virtually combines multiple name authority files into a single name authority service, has transitioned to become an OCLC service. |
Information Today
October 27, 2003
Barbara Quint |
OCLC Project Opens WorldCat Records to Google OCLC has announced to its library members that it will begin testing the opening of WorldCat records to Google access. The project will extract a 2 million-record subset consisting of the most populare and widely-available books from the more than 53 million records in the database. |
Information Today
February 27, 2012
Barbara Quint |
OCLC Innovation Lab Offers to Build Websites for Small Libraries The project began as a response to serious concerns posed by OCLC's Global Council as to the lack of web presence for small libraries. |
Information Today
February 5, 2009
Barbara Quint |
OCLC and Open Access: Riding to the Rescue or Rustling the Herd? OCLC has announced a partnership that would ultimately transfer an open access icon, the University of Michigan Library's OAIster service, to OCLC. |
D-Lib
March 2005
Hyatt & Young |
OCLC Research Publications Repository Conducting research on behalf of the library community has, for 27 years, been part of the mission of OCLC, and we believe that if research is worth doing, it's worth telling people about. |
Information Today
September 2000 |
OCLC Introduces WebExpress, CORC Service OCLC has announced both the release of WebExpress, a gateway to local and remote Z39.50 information resources, and the debut of its Cooperative Online Resource Catalog |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2011 |
In Brief and In the News Report on the International Workshop on Semantic Digital Archives 2011... Report on the Fourth Workshop on Very Large Digital Libraries... UNC's Digital Innovation Lab: Fostering Public Digital Humanities... |
Information Today
July 1, 2002
Richard W. Wiggins |
OCLC Extends Digital Library Offerings OCLC continues its push into the digital library software and services market with two recent announcements. |
Information Today
July 30, 2001
Barbara Quint |
OCLC Abandons Proprietary Software for Oracle Standard, Institutes Web Document Archiving Service OCLC, the leading library vendor, continues building for its future as a master player in the emerging virtual library world. Getting down to basics, it has announced that it will substitute the market-standard Oracle software as its basic platform... |
D-Lib
October 2006
Artacho & Duval |
Report on the Workshop of Learning Object Repositories as Digital Libraries: September 22, 2006, Alicante, Spain The Learning Object Repositories workshop addressed the increasing importance of the digital library paradigm as a reference framework for building learning object repositories. |
Information Today
October 27, 2008 |
Bibliotheque nationale de France to Add Records to WorldCat OCLC and Bibliotheque nationale de France have signed a letter of intent to work cooperatively to add records from the French national library to OCLC's WorldCat, the world's largest online resource for finding information in libraries. |
Information Today
August 16, 2012
Karen Coyle |
OCLC Recommends ODC-BY for WorldCat Data This is the first open licensing of full WorldCat bibliographic data and does not make restrictions on fields or formats. The license can be applied to databases of MARC21 cataloging records. |
D-Lib
May/Jun 2014
Wickett et al. |
Representing Cultural Collections in Digital Aggregation and Exchange Environments In this article, we present specific roles that collections can play in digital aggregations, representational requirements that arise from those roles, and modeling strategies for meeting the requirements. |
D-Lib
December 2001
Christophe Blanchi |
Distributed Interoperable Metadata Registry Interoperability between digital libraries depends on effective sharing of metadata. Successful sharing of metadata requires common standards for metadata exchange... |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2014
Hickey & Toves |
Managing Ambiguity In VIAF The Virtual International Authority File is built from tens of millions of names represented in more than 130 million authority and bibliographic records expressed in multiple languages, scripts and formats. |
Information Today
November 12, 2009
Barbara Quint |
OCLC Ingests OAIster: Pearls to Follow The WorldCat.org service now includes all the OAIster records. Users of the old OAIster.org site will now be automatically shifted over to an OCLC-based site. |
Information Today
November 2008
Miriam A. Drake |
OCLC: An Enterprise With a Global Perspective In the 10 years since Robert "Jay" Jordan became president of OCLC, he has transformed the company into a global enterprise and created greater value for libraries and the public. |
D-Lib
June 2006
Zeng & Chan |
Metadata Interoperability and Standardization - A Study of Methodology Part II: Achieving Interoperability at the Record and Repository Levels Information professionals must give high priority to the task of creating and maintaining the highest feasible level of interoperability among extant and new information services. |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2011
Korn et al. |
In Brief and In the News Linked data in the humanities... Low-cost digitization of cultural heritage materials... New tool to increase use of in-copyright works... |
Information Today
January 15, 2009 |
OCLC Still Reviewing Policy for Use of WorldCat Records The goals of the new policy are to modernize record use and transfer practices for application on the web, foster new uses of WorldCat data that benefit members, and clarify data-sharing rights and restrictions. |
Information Today
October 11, 2004
Barbara Quint |
All of OCLC's WorldCat Heading Toward the Open Web Excited by the pilot program, the management of the world's largest library vendor has decided to open the entire collection of 53.3 million items for harvesting by Google and Yahoo! Search. |
Information Today
August 4, 2008 |
OCLC Offers Web Harvester for CONTENTdm OCLC is now offering Web Harvester, a new product that allows libraries and other cultural heritage institutions to capture and add web content to their digital collections |
Information Today
September 8, 2008
Barbara Quint |
Solving Copyright Issues Book by Book: OCLC's WorldCat Copyright Evidence Registry OCLC is in the third month of a 6-month pilot project testing a WorldCat Copyright Evidence Registry. Librarians will have an opportunity to record efforts they have conducted to identify copyright status for sharing with colleagues and the public |
Information Today
August 2004
Barbara Quint |
Yahoo! Search Joins OCLC Open WorldCat Project OCLC has expanded its online library locator service for books to Yahoo! Search. |
Information Today
January 26, 2004 |
NewsBreaks OCLC Now Offers Catalog Services for Groups... Invention Machine Introduces Goldfire Innovator... Thomson Delphion Adds Corporate Hierarchy Data |
Information Today
August 2, 2010
Edward M. Corrado |
SkyRiver and Innovative Interfaces File Antitrust Suit Against OCLC The suit alleges that OCLC is "unlawfully monopolizing the bibliographic data, cataloging service and interlibrary lending markets and is attempting to monopolize the market for integrated library systems." |
Information Today
August 21, 2006
Barbara Quint |
OCLC Unifies Digitization Forces with Its Acquisition of DiMeMa In the face of what Cathy De Rosa, vice president of OCLC Marketing and Library Services, referred to as the "exploding" market for digitization by libraries, OCLC has acquired DiMeMa. |
