ResearchWorks

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.

These are explorations and works in progress. We invite you to play with these prototypes and send us your ideas.

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.

Work pages in WorldCat Explore pages for FRBR-clustered WorldCat records. Learn more...(.pdf 74MB/ 16 slides) Send us your ideas	Crosswalk Web Service (CWS) Translate a group of metadata records from one format to another. Send us your ideas
Terminology Services Web-based services for controlled vocabularies. Learn more... Send us your ideas	Classify An experimental classification service. Learn more... Send us your ideas
Audience Level Enter an ISBN, ISSN, or OCLC WorldCat number for a book, and view an estimated audience-level indicator for the item's FRBR workset. Learn more... Send us your ideas	WorldMap View data relating to libraries and collections in a map-based visual interface. Learn more... Send us your ideas
DeweyBrowser Browse and search collections organized by the DDC. Learn more... Send us your ideas	VIAF The Virtual International Authority File virtually combines the name authority files of the Library of Congress, the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, and the Bibliothèque nationale de France into a single name authority service. Learn more... Send us your ideas
WorldCat Identities Search and browse over 25 million personal and corporate authors. Send us your ideas	Tag Cloud Builder Create, print and save custom Tag Clouds for web pages or other textual data. Send us your ideas
FictionFinder Locate fiction for your reading pleasure. Search by your favorite author, title, genre, and more. Learn more... Send us your ideas	Metadata Crosswalk Repository Locate machine-processable metadata crosswalks. Learn more... Send us your ideas
NACO Normalization Service Normalize text strings according to NACO rules. Learn more... Send us your ideas	XSLTProc Use our technology to manage and use arbitrary XSLT stylesheets. Learn more... Send us your ideas
ERRoL Browse OAI repositories easily, and build services on top of them. Learn more... Send us your ideas	"info" URI Come here to define identifier schemes (LCCNs, OCLC#, etc.). Learn more... Send us your ideas
LC Name Authority File Got a name? Make names in your database consistent by checking them against Library of Congress's name authority file. Learn more... Send us your ideas	XTCat 4.2 million electronic and non-electronic thesis and dissertation records extracted from OCLC WorldCat. Send us your ideas
Bookmarklets Got a book title on an online bookseller's site? Check whether your local library has it. Learn more... Send us your ideas	FAST The rich vocabulary of LCSH in a simpler syntax. Learn more on the FAST project page. Send us your ideas
NDLTD Union Catalog Over 120,000 metadata records for electronic theses and dissertations harvested from libraries around the world. Send us your ideas	OpenURL Registry Implementing OpenURLs? Register your identifiers here so others can use them in OpenURLs. Send us your ideas