Our work in this area is focused on setting new expectations for investing in metadata creation and maintenance, modeling attendant workflows and facilitating the discovery of research institutions' resources by users wherever they are. Our goal is to engage OCLC Research Library partners and OCLC member libraries in adapting descriptive practice to economic realities, user expectations and the requirements of network-level services.
Classify is a FRBR-based prototype designed to support the assignment of classification numbers and subject headings for books, DVDs, CDs, and other types of materials.
FAST is an enumerative faceted subject heading schema derived from the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH). FAST is easier to apply and can be successfully used by non-professionals.
The FAST Converter is a Web interface for the conversion of LCSH headings to FAST headings. Either single headings or small sets of bibliographic records can be converted. The intent of this Web site is to provide a learning tool to help familiarize users with FAST and the differences between FAST and LCSH.
mapFAST is a Google Maps mashup prototype designed to provide map based access to bibliographic records using FAST geographic authorities.
The goal of the Metadata Schema Transformation project is to develop a simple, web-accessible service that translates metadata records from one publicly defined format into another.
This project attempts to develop tools that advance the state of the art in extracting names from unstructured text and disambiguating them using authority files developed in the library community.
An experimental service to provide authority control for publisher names in bibliographic catalogs.
Identify the user contributions that would enrich the descriptive metadata created by libraries, archives, and museums and the issues that need to be resolved to communicate and share user contributions on the network level.
This project provides Web-based services for controlled vocabularies.
VIAF explores virtually combining the name authority files of national level authority files into a single name authority service.
View rich descriptions for books and other library materials.
Genre profiles allow users to browse genre terms for hundreds of titles, authors, subjects, characters, places, and more, ranked by popularity in WorldCat.
WorldCat Identities has a summary page for every name in WorldCat.
The WorldCat Identities Network gives users the opportunity to visually explore the interconnectivity and relationships between WorldCat Identities.
A data visualization prototype, which presents a graphical and interactive interface to three OCLC Research projects: OCLC WorldMap, OCLC Audience Level, and the Publisher Name Authority File.
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