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User Contributions to WorldCat:Deployment and Potential

User Contributions to WorldCat:Deployment and Potential

Janifer GatenbyResearch Integration and Standards, OCLC Leiden

Founded in 1967, OCLC is a Founded in 1967, OCLC is a nonprofit membership organizationnonprofit membership organization. .

It includes more than It includes more than 71,000 libraries in 112 countries71,000 libraries in 112 countries

Plus 66 million articles

Institution Registry

107,735 institutionsInstitution Registry

107,735 institutions

WorldCat IdentitiesWorldCat Identities

VIAFVIAF

Linking inwardsLinking inwards

Search Box

5% and growingof WorldCat.org traffic

5% and growingof WorldCat.org traffic

Permalinks

• Simple URLs permitting direct access into WorldCat

• HTML pages

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/85898492

APIsAPIs

WorldCat API

SRU APIs

• Terminologies, Institution registry, WorldCat Identities, VIAF

Identifier services

• xISBN, xISSN, xOCLCNUM

• Work identifier tables (coming)

WorldCat API: Linking in for mash-upWorldCat API: Linking in for mash-up

•Integrate WorldCat data into your web site

• FRBR work clusters

• Citations (APA, Chicago, Harvard, MLA, Turabian)

• Holdings (sorted geographically)

• Links

• Accepts: SRU & OpenSearch

• Outputs: MARCXML, Dublin Core, RSS, Atom

•http://www.worldcat.org/blogs/

•http://worldcat.org/devnet/index.php/SearchAPIDemos

ListsLists

• More than 160,000 contributed to WorldCat

• Private or Public

• Export citations (RefWorks, EndNote, Copy & Paste)

Various listsVarious lists

WorldCat within FacebookWorldCat within Facebook

Kit provided for adapting for similar sites, e.g. Hyves

Objectives for social metadata; how is success measuredsuccess measured? What are the policy, administrative, and technical prerequisites for contributions to be searchable and retrieved in an open, networked environment? Best practices Best practices existing and needed? Protection of the privacyprivacy of the contribution? How can emerging folksonomiesfolksonomies be incorporated into established taxonomies? How are cultural institutions integrating social metadata into formal taxonomies? What systems or interfaces keep social metadata and existing taxonomies separate, in parallel systems?

RLG Program: Sharing and Aggregating Social MetadataRLG Program: Sharing and Aggregating Social Metadata

21 institutions from 4 countries: http://www.oclc.org/programs/ourwork/renovating/changingmetadata/a

ggregating.htm

RLG Program: Networking NamesRLG Program: Networking Names

Bring together information about creatorscreators now hidden within library, archival, and museum contexts, using a social networking model. Broaden the view of "authority work" beyond NACO contributors. Increase metadata creation efficiency. Make it easier for users to identify works by or about the same creator users to identify works by or about the same creator regardless of language or discipline. Expose information about personal and corporate bodies beyond the confines of library, archival, and museum silos and bring them into the "network flow".

15 institutions from 3 countries http://www.oclc.org/programs/ourwork/renovating/leveragevocab/i

dresource.htm

WorldCat Expert Community ExperimentWorldCat Expert Community Experiment

• February to July 2009

• Corrections, improvements to all records except BIBCO and CONSER

• Interim results

Replaces Libraries

April 2009 18,910 1001

May 2009 19,489 1025

http://www.oclc.org/us/en/worldcat/quality/expert/default.htm

Regional Collection of Data: CBS: A starting pointRegional Collection of Data: CBS: A starting point

• Swiss Bib and Dutch Union catalogue will feature soon

• Social data is indexed with the bibliographic metadata

• Language tagged

• Social data is shared with WorldCat, unless restricted

• WorldCat data can be downloaded

SwissBib

NCC

Touchpoint

PiCarta

Social Data and QualitySocial Data and Quality

• Reporting of abusive social content

• Reporting helpfulness of social content

• Rating social content

• Measures to avoid self rating and multiples ratings from the same

• Quality by redundancy

• Recognition of good contributors

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/29/wikipedia_bans_scientology/

PotentialPotential

• Authoritative Lists of Publications for CVs

• Corrections

• Added content via links

• Obituaries and biographies

• Scanned book covers, TOC, pages

• Family histories

• Social pages, Facebook, MySpace

Combining Social, Professional , External and Mined DataCombining Social, Professional , External and Mined Data

• WorldCat mined “one page per”:

• Identity, Institution

• Coming soon: Work, Geographic place

• Possible: Event, Dewey classification or range / subject

• WorldCat & external data

• Reviews from book trade sites

• WeRead reviews and recommendations

Vocabularies as web service tools to assist

tagging

Not all users create contentNot all users create content

http://blogs.forrester.com/groundswell/2008/10/new-2008-social.html

Therefore:Need scale

Need to pool content

Josh Bernoff

Enormous Potential; how to succeed?Enormous Potential; how to succeed?

Enrichment, Correction, Linking to related information, Evaluation

• Need more knowledge:

• Why do users prefer making lists but are less likely to rate?

• 160,000 lists versus 36,000 ratings and reviews in same period

• Anne Christensen at ELAG ; sharing reluctance http://indico.ulib.sk/MaKaC/contributionDisplay.py?contribId=22&confId=5

• Australian Newspapers beta http://ndpbeta.nla.gov.au

• People like to be involved, intrigued, feel part

• Need acknowledgment

•Dank u wel, Thank you, Merci Beaucoup