OCLC WorldShare™ Metadata
A complete metadata management solution for physical, licensed and digital resources
A complete metadata management solution
Today’s libraries continually strive to achieve greater efficiencies in their workflows and better visibility for their collections, while affirming their value to users and the larger community. WorldShare Metadata helps address these priorities by providing your library with a complete metadata management solution for physical, licensed and digital resources across multiple formats. This set of new applications and services will continue to expand in phases over the next few years. The new functionality supports OCLC's strategy to provide Webscale solutions to the full range of library management needs, including acquisitions, license management, resource sharing and discovery.
As your collections of electronic and licensed materials grow, your staff face a number of challenges in managing metadata for content that is purchased in collections. They often have to support multiple workflows, manually tracking when data of varying frequencies and quality is available from different sources. Missing updated metadata can result in a user clicking a link, discovering that an item isn't available, becoming discouraged and then disengaging from your library entirely.
WorldShare Metadata Collection Manager allows you to define and configure your e-book and other electronic collections in one place, and automatically receive initial and updated customized WorldCat MARC records for all e-titles from one source, providing your users access to the titles and content from within the local library catalog or other discovery interface. This improves user satisfaction and ensures that users are less likely to bypass your library's services. Collections can be selected from the global WorldCat knowledge base oryou can create new standard collections defined title by title or new query-based collections based on existing WorldCat indexes.
The WorldCat knowledge base and WorldCat underpin many OCLC services, including WorldShare Metadata Collection Manager. The knowledge base combines data about e-resource ownership and linking information for access to content. It includes library-, publisher- and OCLC-contributed content from around the world, including e-books, e-journals and open access content. It also brings more timely and accurate access to content from WorldCat Local search results and higher fulfillment rates for libraries that share articles and e-books through WorldCat Resource Sharing. Download the list of content included in the WorldCat knowledge base.
New record management capabilities and Web services coming in the future
Coming in mid-2013, OCLC WorldShare Metadata Record Manager will provide libraries with efficient tools to describe items uniquely held by your library. Web services of interest to cataloging developers and partners will be made available through the OCLC WorldShare Platform to support adding and enriching WorldCat records and maintaining WorldCat holdings.
WorldShare Metadata works with other OCLC services as well as traditional integrated library systems. For libraries using WorldShare Management Services, WorldShare Metadata can fully integrate these functions in the same staff interface, significantly improving efficiency for “back office” operations.
“Using the [WorldCat] knowledge base and this new MARC record delivery service for some e-book collections is really a more efficient workflow overall. It provides more thorough and accurate access to e-books in our catalog and discovery tools.”
Holly Tomren, Head, Metadata Services
Drexel University Libraries
Past Cataloging and Metadata Management events
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Past Cataloging and Metadata Management events
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07 January 2013 - 07 January 2013
Improving WorldCat - How You Can Participate
During the webinar, Ian Fairclough, Cataloging & Metadata Services Librarian, George Mason University and Cynthia M. Whitacre, Manager, WorldCat Quality & Partner Content, OCLC, speak about the improvements that can be made to WorldCat master records. Included in this presentation for cataloging staff at member libraries, is when and how to make corrections to WorldCat records and how to request that OCLC staff edit a WorldCat record.
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17 December 2012 - 17 December 2012
OCLC Credit & Incentive Program Discussion
During the webinar, OCLC staff and members of the Global Council Advisory Group on Incentives engage with librarians at member libraries on the topic of OCLC cataloging credits and incentives, to provide background on the current credits model, share findings and recommendations of the OCLC Global Council Cost Sharing Models Task Force, and gather input and feedback from member libraries.
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28 November 2012 - 28 November 2012
Using macros in Connexion for CJK materials webinar, Advanced session
Connexion macros can be very useful for expedited cataloging, both for making repetitive changes to records and for generating first-draft transliterations of non-Latin text. Part two of this session includes discussion about and demonstrations of creating and customizing macros those are somewhat complex and/or deal with non-Latin text, as well as a testimonial about how useful these types of macros have been. Presenters: Joel Hahn, Niles Public Library District, and Erica Chang, University of Hawaii.
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20 September 2012
WorldShare Metadata collection management overview
David Whitehair, OCLC provides an overview of the new WorldShare Metadata collection management functionality along with details to get started using the new tool.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time [UTC -4]
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14 August 2012 - 14 August 2012
International Dewey Users Meeting
The following presentations were made at the International Dewey Users Meeting, held in conjunction with the World Library and…
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25 June 2012 - 25 June 2012
Managing Metadata for E-book Collections
The focus of this popular event held during ALA Annual in Anaheim, California, was metadata management for e-book collections. Speakers…
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23 June 2012 - 23 June 2012
Dewey update at ALA Annual 2012
The following presentations were made at the Dewey update meeting at ALA Annual 2012.
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12 April 2012 - 12 April 2012
Connexion enhancements
Learn about authority controlling improvements which will apply to Windows-based Connexion client and Web-based Connexion browser users, and the enhancements - GLIMIR, Classify, RDA workforms and macro changes included in the recent release of Connexion client version 2.40.
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15 March 2012 - 15 March 2012
Dewey update at PLA 2012
The following presentations were made at the Dewey update meeting at PLA 2012.
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07 February 2012 - 07 February 2012
DDC 23 Update
An update on the print and web versions of DDC 23 and tips on using DDC 23 and WebDewey 2.0
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Transforming Metadata
12 minutes
Part of The Future of OCLC Cataloging, ILL and Discovery at Webscale meeting, David Whitehair presents Transforming Metadata.
Creating Cataloging Efficiencies: Managing E-books Metadata
25 minutes
Are you looking for more efficient ways to manage metadata for your e-book collections and improve user access to these collections?
WorldShare Metadata collection management overview
59 minutes
David Whitehair, OCLC provides an overview of the new WorldShare Metadata collection management functionality along with details to get started using the new tool.