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 demonstrations are still in development, and they may perform erratically or disappear without notice. If something is not working on this page when you visit, please come back and try it again later.

Crosswalk Web Service (CWS) (22 July 2008) Translate a group of metadata records from one format to another. Send us your ideas
Terminology Services (updated 3 July 2008) Web-based services for controlled vocabularies. Learn more... Send us your ideas	Classify (3 July 2008) An experimental classification service. Learn more... Send us your ideas
Audience Level (updated 11 February 2008) 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	DeweyBrowser (11 December 2007) Browse and search collections organized by the DDC. Learn more... Send us your ideas
WorldMap (updated October 2007) View data relating to libraries and collections in a map-based visual interface. Learn more... Send us your ideas	VIAF (16 October 2007) 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 (23 August 2007) Search and browse over 25 million personal and corporate authors. Send us your ideas	Tag Cloud Builder (23 August 2007) Create, print and save custom Tag Clouds for web pages or other textual data. Send us your ideas
FictionFinder (updated December 2006) Locate fiction for your reading pleasure. Search by your favorite author, title, genre, and more. Learn more... Send us your ideas	Metadata Crosswalk Repository (23 December 2004) Locate machine-processable metadata crosswalks. Learn more... Send us your ideas
NACO Normalization Service (15 December 2004) Normalize text strings according to NACO rules. Learn more... Send us your ideas	XSLTProc (15 December 2004) Use our technology to manage and use arbitrary XSLT stylesheets. Learn more... Send us your ideas
ERRoL (10 December 2003) Browse OAI repositories easily, and build services on top of them. Learn more... Send us your ideas	"info" URI (10 December 2003) Come here to define identifier schemes (LCCNs, OCLC#, etc.). Learn more... Send us your ideas
LC Name Authority File (10 December 2003) 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 (10 December 2003) 4.2 million electronic and non-electronic thesis and dissertation records extracted from OCLC WorldCat. Send us your ideas
Bookmarklets (26 November 2003) Got a book title on an online bookseller's site? Check whether your local library has it. Learn more... Send us your ideas	FAST (26 November 2003) The rich vocabulary of LCSH in a simpler syntax. Learn more on the FAST project page. Send us your ideas
NDLTD Union Catalog (26 November 2003) Over 120,000 metadata records for electronic theses and dissertations harvested from libraries around the world. Send us your ideas	OpenURL Registry (26 November 2003) Implementing OpenURLs? Register your identifiers here so others can use them in OpenURLs. Send us your ideas