WorldMap [OCLC - Projects] Looking for a map? The concepts identified in this prototype system are integrated into the Global Library Statistics application, which includes a map depicting library, cultural heritage, and publishing data. The OCLC WorldMap was a prototype system that provided an interactive visual tool for selecting and displaying international library holdings represented in WorldCat.
The WorldMap prototype was discontinued in January 2011. Background Why we developed this prototype People can be inundated by an overwhelming amount of information. WorldMap will generate interactive graphs that compare several different kinds of data for up to four countries at a time. Results are displayed on a new screen. Impact Data such as those presented in this prototype can be used to provide information for decision making in regards to remote storage, collection management, marketing, and cooperative collection development, preservation, and digitization.
Additional information Outputs. Why you can't find a library book in your search engine | T. This article was amended on Friday 30 January 2009. In the report below we misrepresented a new record use policy being promulgated by the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC), which aggregates library records and makes them searchable online through its WorldCat database. The policy does not, as we said, restrict libraries' ability to make their own collections and records available for public search and indexing by search engines; the policy applies to WorldCat records. The article also said the OCLC shares only 3 million of its 125 million records with Google Books. In fact, the OCLC shares its full database with Google, including Google Books. The Google search algorithm determines whether or not a WorldCat record appears in a set of search results. The article quoted a claim that OCLC has tried to obstruct the growth of the website OpenLibrary.org. Despite the internet's origins as an academic network, when it comes to finding a book, e-commerce rules.
Bibliographic data. LC-Flickr: updating the catalog. In the context of John MacColl’s guest blog on Karen Calhoun’s Metalogue, I was reminded of the stats from the LC-Flickr project pertaining to changes LC made in their own catalog prompted by insightful Flickr comments. When I last updated my Flickr slides for a class at Syracuse University, I found 174 records containing the word “flickr” in an all text field search of LC’s Prints and Photographs Online Catalog. The records in that set usually contain a credit such as “Source: Flickr Commons project” for information which has been added, like in this instance. The same search today yields a whopping 4,256 records – which is quite close to the entire set of images LC has on Flickr (4,615 as of today). Upon closer inspection, I found that many of these records don’t contain a change to the substance of the record – however, they now do have a useful pointer to a discussion about the photograph on the Flickr site, and that’s why my search retrieved them.
Related posts: Long-term Preservation Storage: OCLC Digital Archive versus Amaz. Last month OCLC announced a new service offering for long-term storage of libraries’ digital collections. Called Digital Archive™, it provides “a secure storage environment for you to easily manage and monitor the health of your master files and digital originals.” Barbara Quint has an article in Information Today called “OCLC Introduces High-Priced Digital Archive Service” in which she makes a comparison to Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (or “S3″) from primarily a cost perspective: “The price for S3 storage at Amazon Web Services is 15 cents a gigabyte a month or $1.80 a year, in comparison to OCLC’s $7.50 a gig.”
Barbara also goes into some of the technical differences, but I think it might be worthwhile to go a little more into depth on them. OCLC’s Digital Archive It is targeted towards the preservation of digital masters. This “Digital Archive” is a revamping of an older product from OCLC, also called “Digital Archive” but one that included a web harvesting tools component. 3.3. Approaches to metadata creation: Our survey results! The RLG Programs Descriptive Metadata Practices Survey results are now out! The report is divided into two documents: RLG Programs’ interpretation of the results and the issues we identified to pursue in future projects. (13 pages)The data supplement with the charts and graphs generated from the 89 survey responses and the survey instrument. (46 pages) I blogged about our preliminary analysis of responses to this survey conducted in July and August among 18 RLG partners, selected because they had “multiple metadata creation centers” on campus that included libraries, archives, and museums and had some interaction among them.
Our objective was to gain a baseline understanding of current descriptive metadata practices and dependencies, the first project in our program to change metadata creation processes. The data is reported in a series of charts and graphs that are open to interpretation. Some of the other results we commented on: Related posts: