WorldCat Registry webinar recording now available

Product manager Joanna White presented a short introduction to the WorldCat Registry to UnityUK customers on Tuesday, June 2, 2009.

The recording of that session is now available on the OCLC Web site

Topics covered in the presentation included:

• searching for your Library profile,
• creating a personal account and associating this with the Registry Profile
• updating your details, deep linking and how the results looks in WorldCat.org
• non-OCLC services linking to WorldCat Registry data

What is the WorldCat Registry?

OCLC has been long known for centralization of metadata about the world’s collections in the WorldCat catalog. But libraries are defined by much more than its collections. There is also metadata about the institution itself: its identity, electronic services, relationships, staff contacts and other pertinent data. This metadata informs the processes and systems driving entire enterprise; however, maintenance of it can become a random, unstructured and time-consuming workflow.

Patron or library staff can eventually find appropriate information about libraries by performing enough searches. But that is not always possible or feasible for machine interactions. OCLC hopes that a better solution lies in centralization of essential metadata about the libraries and consortia in the free WorldCat Registry.

WorldCat Registry was introduced as a free machine-accessible service to libraries around the world in early 2007. Our main goals for the directory include being: trusted, comprehensive, and web accessible.

Learn about the WorldCat Registry data and services that utilize it, as well as how to manage your library’s online profile information.

(2009 06 08)