New Database Structures at OCLC

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New Database Structures at OCLC

• Lynn Kellar
• CORC Users Group
• April 30, 2001

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Outline

• Now and Future
• Goals and Objectives
• CORCs Database in Transition
• A Peek at the Architecture of XWC
• Whats coming?
• Questions?

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Current WorldCat
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Extended WorldCat
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Goals and Objectives

• In the scope of things, XWC is second only to
  ongoing production in priority.
• Put in place the data management platform to
  support the product strategies envisioned in
  Extending the Cooperative
• Provide a flexible architecture surrounding the
  database engine to support high-performance
  access in a distributed, global environment.

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CORCs Database in Transition

• PiCORC Project Fall 2001
• Stabilization
• Scalability
• Collaboration/Integration with PICA
• More UNICODE support
• Prototype Extended WorldCat
• Practice with a Relational File
• Remember its Temporary!

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Dublin Node
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A Few Things You Can Expect in XWC

• Much Better Multilingual Support
• Stop Words by Language
• Sorts by Language
• More Authoritative Sources
• More and better Non-Roman Character Support
• Record structures based on the concept of a work
  (IFLA FRBR)
• More Formats
• Enhanced Holdings
• No Record Limits
• Enhanced Data in Records

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How Are We Going to Get There?

• Its a hard job that only changes everything!
• We are in process on a Commercial DB selection.
• Data modeling underway.
• Hope to have a test application up by the end of
  the year.