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ResearchWorks

Things to play with and think about

Welcome to OCLC ResearchWorks, OCLC's research laboratory. ResearchWorks demonstrates a few of our ideas for applying new technologies to organize information. In some cases, they serve as examples of things you can develop or incorporate into your own systems.

Just a note: these are demonstrations. If something is not working on this page when you visit, let us know and please come back and try it again later.

ResearchWorks Activities

Work Records in WorldCat  ResearchWorks icon (RW)

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View rich descriptions for books and other library materials.

PURL  ResearchWorks icon (RW) Software icon (SW)

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PURLs (Persistent Uniform Resource Locators) are Web addresses that act as permanent identifiers in the face of a dynamic and changing Web infrastructure.

Missing Materials Beta Procedure  ResearchWorks icon (RW) RLG Partnership icon (RP)

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In order to centralize information about stolen and missing rare books and special collections, this working group developed a procedure to “tag” records in WorldCat.org. The tagged records are then automatically fed to a blog, missingmaterials.org. Simultaneously, holdings are set in WorldCat, in order to alert prospective buyers and sellers.

OCLC Crosswalk Web Service Demo  ResearchWorks icon (RW)

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Translate a group of metadata records from one format to another.

Classify  ResearchWorks icon (RW)

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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.

Terminology Services  ResearchWorks icon (RW)

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This project provides Web-based services for controlled vocabularies.

Audience Level  ResearchWorks icon (RW)

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This research project explores using library holdings data in WorldCat to calculate audience-level indicators for books represented in the WorldCat database, based on the types of libraries that hold the titles.

WorldMap  ResearchWorks icon (RW)

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View data relating to libraries and collections in a map-based visual interface.

DeweyBrowser  ResearchWorks icon (RW)

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Browse and search collections organized by the DDC.

VIAF (The Virtual International Authority File)  ResearchWorks icon (RW)

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VIAF explores virtually combining the name authority files of national level authority files into a single name authority service.

Tag Cloud Builder  ResearchWorks icon (RW)

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Create, print and save custom Tag Clouds for Web pages or other textual data.

WorldCat Identities  ResearchWorks icon (RW)

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WorldCat Identities has a summary page for every name in WorldCat.

FictionFinder: A FRBR-based Prototype for Fiction in WorldCat  ResearchWorks icon (RW)

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FictionFinder is a FRBR-based prototype that provides access to over 2.9 million bibliographic records for fiction books, eBooks, and audio materials described in OCLC WorldCat.

NACO Normalization Service  ResearchWorks icon (RW)

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OCLC Research's NACO Normalization Service enables systems to convert names and other text strings to a format more conducive to machine comparison and sorting.

info URI Registry  ResearchWorks icon (RW)

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The “info” URI Registry was set up on behalf of NISO to identify and describe registered “info” URIs.

Bookmarklets  ResearchWorks icon (RW)

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Got a book title from an online bookseller?  Check whether your local library has it.

FAST (Faceted Application of Subject Terminology)  ResearchWorks icon (RW)

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FAST is an enumerative facetted 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.

OpenURL  ResearchWorks icon (RW) Software icon (SW)

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OOMRef-J is a Java implementation of ANSI/NISO Z39.88 – The OpenURL Framework for Context-Sensitive Services.

OpenURL  ResearchWorks icon (RW)

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The ANSI/NISO Z39.88-2004 (OpenURL) Registry identifies and defines the set of approved components for use in the OpenURL Framework.

The NDLTD Union Catalog  ResearchWorks icon (RW)

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The NDLTD Union Catalog project focuses on thesis metadata via the Open Archives Initiative's Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). This is a lightweight protocol for moving or sharing metadata that allows synchronization of loosely coupled databases and mandates XML Dublin Core as the default metadata format.

OAICat  ResearchWorks icon (RW) Software icon (SW)

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OAICat is a Java Servlet implementation of the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) v2.0.

ResearchWorks icon (RW)Some of the activities listed here have prototypes or demonstrations you can explore and play with. You can find a list of just those hands-on activities in ResearchWorks.

Software icon (SW)A few of these activities have generated software that you can download and build upon. Go to our software page for a list of only those activities.

RLG Partnership icon (RP)The RLG Partnership has sponsored the activities with this mark.