OCLC and the Social Web: Building tools, providing platforms, engaging the community

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OCLC and the Social WebBuilding tools,
providing platforms, engaging the community
InternationalConference onDublin Core
andMetadataApplications
Eric ChildressConsulting Project ManagerOCLC
Office of Researchchildree_at_oclc.org
Andy HavensManager of Branding andCreative
Services, OCLChavensa_at_oclc.org
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OCLC Member owned and governed since 1967.

• Mission Connecting people to knowledge through
  library cooperation.
• Vision The worlds libraries. Connected.

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Introduction to OCLC

• Worlds largest library cooperative. Established
  in 1967 in Ohio, USA. Non-profit charter to
  reduce rate of rise of library costs and increase
  access to the worlds information.
• WorldCat union catalog Cooperative database of
  145 million records, representing materials in
  71,000 libraries in 112 countries.
• WorldCat Resource Sharing Worlds largest
  inter-library loan network, reaching 10,000
  libraries with a transaction every 4 seconds.
• WebJunction.org Peer-to-peer training and
  support network for libraries.
• OCLC Research Leading applied research center
  for libraries, archives, museums. Hosted original
  Dublin Core meeting in 1995.

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Building tools WorldCat.org
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Building tools WorldCat.org social features
List watching
Lists
Portablesearch box
RSS Feeds
User tags
Reviews and ratings
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Providing platforms Facebook App for WorldCat
Local sites CiteMe tool
Learn more athttp//apps.facebook.com/worldcat/
Learn more at http//apps.facebook.com/citemeapp/

Learn about the Developers Network at
http//www.worldcat.org/devnet/wiki/Main_Page
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Engaging the communityOCLC and the wider,
social Web

• 13 official blogs and counting 12 in English, 1
  in English, Spanish Portuguese. Subscribe to
  any/all at www.oclc.org/rss/
• 10 product-related discussion lists plus hosted
  lists https//www3.oclc.org/app/listserv/
• Twitter _at_oclc, _at_oclcdevnet dozens of personal
  OCLC employee accounts (e.g., _at_lorcanD)
• Facebook WorldCat.org applications, OCLC,
  WorldCat, WebJunction, other fan pages
• WebJunction forums, OCLC Developers Network
• Content on oclc.org (articles, reports, Webinars,
  news, some datasets) available as HTML, RSS, etc.
  
• Growing the size and scope of OCLC-provided
  linked data (e.g., VIAF a multi-national
  authority file). See http//outgoing.typepad.com/
  outgoing/2009/09/viaf-as-linked-data.html

OCLC blogs your glimpse into our minds
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Engaging the communityOCLC reports and more
Sharing, Privacy and Trust in Our Networked World
http//www.oclc.org/reports/sharing/default.htm
NextSpace Libraries and social networking
http//www.oclc.org/nextspace/007/1.htm
Some thoughts about egos, objects, and social
networkshttp//orweblog.oclc.org/archives/001601
.html
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Thank you!

• If you have a moment, we invite you to take a
  look at these OCLC blogs And we welcome your
  comments!
• Lorcan Dempseys Weblog orweblog.oclc.org
• WorldCat Blog worldcat.org/blogs
• Its all good scanblog.blogspot.com
• Hanging Together hangingtogether.org
• Outgoing outgoing.typepad.com/outgoing
• Designing the Future community.oclc.org/engineeri
  ng
• Metalogue community.oclc.org/metalogue
• Hectic Pace community.oclc.org/hecticpace
• Weibel Lines weibel-lines.typepad.com
• The Dewey blog ddc.typepad.com
• BlogJunction blog.webjunctionworks.org

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