OCLC and FRBR

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OCLC and FRBR

• Janifer Gatenby
• Research Integration and Standards
• OCLC, Leiden

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Agenda

• WorldCat coverage
• Implementations of FRBR
• Manifestations and Works
• Authorities
• FRBR web and data services
• Research projects and the future

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WorldCat Multi-lingual resource
Total Records 110,861,114
Holdings 1,300 million Libraries
69,000 Articles 60 million growing
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FY09 Data Loading
Library or Group Records Comments
National Library of Israel 1.2m Hebrew, Arabic and Cyrillic records in vernacular. 788k new records added.
UNB Canada 1m
GBV 19.2m 33.7 million holdings 11.2 million new records added
Target load for 2008 / 2009 300-500 million
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Implementations of FRBR

• WorldCat
• FictionFinder
• WorldCat Identities

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WorldCat is FRBRised
http//www.worldcat.org
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WorldCat and FRBR

• WorldCat is FRBRised
• 110 million records, 85 million works (1.3
  manifestations per work)
• How achieved
• Algorithm
• Table of uniform titles to ignore
• Xref tables (large)
• Data mining WorldCat
• VIAF matching techniques

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FRBR Web and data services

• xISBN
• xOCLC
• xISSN
• WorldCat API
• Work Cluster Service

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WorldCat xISBN xISSN

• Web services to find all related editions of a
  book or serial
• Easily incorporated into library catalogs, Web
  sites, and other library applications
• See http//worldcat.org/devnet for more info

• 100 ISBNs for Sorcerers Stone
• 32 English (US and UK)
• 9 Spanish
• 3 Russian, German, Finnish , Latin
• 2 Chinese, Czech, French, Korean, Norwegian,
  Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Turkish,
  Welsh,
• 1 Afrikaans, Albanian, Armenian, Basque, Bengali,
  Georgian, Galician, Gaelic, Ancient Greek, Greek,
  Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian,
  Japanese, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malayalam, Sherpa,
  Slovenian, Swedish, Thai, Ukranian, Urdu
• 16 Audio
• 59 Book

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ISSN History Tool
http//worldcat.org/xissn/titlehistory?issn0888-5
885
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xOCLC

• http//xisbn.worldcat.org/xisbnadmin/xoclcnum/inde
  x.htm
• Submit OCLC number
• Receive related identifiers sorted by holdings
  occurrence
• total WorldCat records 110,861,884
• total records with ISBNs 22,739,250 (20.51)
• total records with LCCNs 12,279,387 (11.07
• http//xisbn.worldcat.org/xisbnadmin/xoclcnum/stat
  .htm

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WorldCat API

• Integrate WorldCat data
• FRBR work clusters
• Accepts SRU OpenSearch
• Outputs MARCXML, Dublin Core, RSS, Atom
• WorldCat Grid Developers Network
• http//www.worldcat.org/devnet/blog/
• http//worldcat.org/devnet/wiki/SearchAPIDemos
• http//www.worldcat.org/blogs/

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Work Cluster Service

• Data export service
• provision of work level identifiers associated
  with a members subset of WorldCat

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SRU record update real time exposure
SRU UPDATE
PiCarta NCC
PUSH
GGC
L O G
SRU UPDATE M21
WorldCat
WorldCat identifiers, FRBR work id
synchronisation
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Research Projects and the Future

• VIAF
• DAI
• Identities Hub
• GLIMIR

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VIAF
Invitation to extend 2008
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DAI Digital Author Identifier

• SURF requires all researchers to have
• Identification which is registered in
• The Dutch National Union Catalogue
• Authority file
• Investigating loading Dutch
• Authority file to VIAF

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Identities Hub (OR / RLG partners project)

• End user editing Phases
• Merging identities
• Move selected works from one identity to another
• Create new identity
• Edit an identity

• Additional authority information under
  consideration
• Institution affiliations
• Subject areas
• Birth and death dates
• Email addresses
• Co-authors

Coming 2009 WorldCat Identities API LCCN
name search
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GLIMIR

• Only 30 of WorldCat resources have an
  international identifier

• Global Library Manifestation Identifier
• No one single manifestation identifier
• ISBN, ISSN, ISMN (music), ISRC (sound
  recordings), V-ISAN (audio-visual)

Identifiers are the key to navigation among web
sites for resources information about
resources thus the key to mash-ups
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Outside use of OCLC identifiers.
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Linking inwards

• Permalinks
• Simple URLs permitting direct access into
  WorldCat
• WorldCat API
• Identifiers give direct access to metadata and
  thence enriched content full text

www.worldcat.org/oclc/225507364
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View point of libraries

• All resources identified in a global scheme
• Consolidate hits for better ranking
• Possible to do cross database links more
  reliably mash-ups
• Improved quality of WorldCat
• Better exposure
• Facilitates cataloguing

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Family of Identifiers
ISCI
WCat Identities, VIAF ISNI, ISIL
Work
FRBR clusters ISTC, ISWC, ISAN
Authors
Subjects, Dewey
GLIMIR ISBN, ISSN, ISMN, V-ISAN
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Linked content at the right level
Biographies, affiliations
Work
Reviews, evaluation, lists, prizes
Authors
Subjects, Dewey
Full text links, usage statistics, cover art,
holdings
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Obrigado
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WorldCat example loading 2007 / 2008
Library or Group Records processed New master records
Libraries Australia 17 m 4.4 m
National Library Sweden 2 m 1.9 m
Bayerische Staatsbibiothek 11 m 3.3 m
HeBIS 4 m 1.7 m
National Library of New Zealand 4 m 800 k
Swiss National Library 1.3 m 21 k
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EMEA Members Council Delegates 2008/9
Alternate Delegates Raymond Bérard, ABES,
France Robin Green, University of Warwick,
GB John Tsebe, National Library of South Africa
Q3 2009 - EU regional council
David Bradbury,City of London,Guildhall
Library,GB
Berndt Dugall,Universität Frankfurt, Germany
Poul Erlandsen, Danish National Library of
Education, Denmark
Ariëtte Skolnik, Haarlem City Library, Netherlands
Juha Hakala,Helsinki University Library, Finland
Klaus Ceynowa,Bayerische Staatsbibliothek,German
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Gwenda Thomas, Rhodes University,S.A.
Graham Jefcoate,Radboud Universiteit
Nijmegen,Netherlands
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Dutch NCSU

• 6.7 million work identifiers / 7.7 million bib
  records
• Collapse rate of 13
• Av. 1.15 bibliographic records per work record
• Software adaptation less than 1 week

• 1.64 million work identifiers / 1.7 million bib
  records
• Collapse rate of 3
• Av. 1.03 bibliographic records per work record

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Method
PPN OCLC OCLC Work ID Title Comments
80637760 65647794 20842726 Goldene vliess not in main group
124594883 27921612 30369321 Goldene vliess not in main group
36330531 5773235 19885466 Goldene vliess not in main group
80626203 36638149 12019603 Goldene vliess in main group
18113649x 36638149 12019603 Goldene vliess in main group
80540333 36638149 12019603 Goldene vliess in main group