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Enhancing VIAF with WorldCat

This presentation by Thomas Hickey, OCLC Chief Scientist, discusses the ongoing relationship between VIAF and WorldCat, emphasizing the enhancement of VIAF through bibliographic data sourced from WorldCat. Key strategies include utilizing OCLC’s cover art service, creating public derivatives from WorldCat, and ensuring the functionality of VIAF remains intact. It explores WorldCat's potential contributions, including multilingual bibliographies, work/expression records, and enhancing WorldCat Identities. The discussion also addresses user perspectives on VIAF and the integration of comprehensive metadata.

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Enhancing VIAF with WorldCat

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  1. Enhancing VIAFwith 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

  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 IdentitiesPossibilities • Genres • Class #’s • Roles • Related names • Subjects • Metrics • Titles • Coauthors • Publication history • Works about • New names

  7. What do you think?

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