Steve
I'm posting this update on OCLC activities in this space on behalf of
Bill Carney, Product Manager in Business Development at OCLC.
~~~
OCLC will begin a pilot later this year to synchronize WorldCat with
interested mass digitization programs.
The objective is to increase the discoverability and access to these new
manifestations at the point of need. As part of this automated process,
OCLC will create a digital manifestation record in WorldCat for each
digitized item, with a link to the participating host metadata page.
In addition, information will be made available to the agent to create
WorldCat.org Find-in-a-Library links on their metadata pages.
Finally, we will create a separate institution record representing the
digital copy received by the library. If the library is preserving the
item, the process will create the record using the DLF/OCLC Registry of
Digital Master Guidelines.
More information on the process will be available on the OCLC Web site
as we draw closer to the pilot later this year.
For more information, please contact
Bill Carney
Product Manager, Business Development
Email: carneyb at oclc.org
Toll free: 800/848-5878
-----Original Message-----
From: Next generation catalogs for libraries
[mailto:NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Steve Toub
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 12:51 AM
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [NGC4LIB] Linking to mass digitized books from library
catalogs: one month later
Hi--
Here's what I know about linking into mass digitized books (e.g., Google
Book Search, Open Content Alliance), largely from a flurry of activity
on this list about a month ago.
U. Michigan, a GBS partner, links to its GBS books--both GBS version and
local version--in its catalogs by loading identifiers into the 2nd call
number field of the item record.[1]
UIUC, an OCA partner, links to its OCA books by creating a separate bib
record for the e-format and loading that into its catalog. They are also
contributing these records to OCLC and making them available via z39.50
and OAI-PMH.[2]
Eastern Michigan developed JavaScript to conditionally link to GBS books
if the OCLC number is included in the GBS URL.[3] The professional
schools at Wake Forest use Eastern Michigan's code.[4]
Tim Spalding at LibraryThing developed a bookmarklet to harvest GBS
URLs.[5] The bookmarklet collected over 253,000 URLs in about a day
before Tim suspended the effort.[6]
Project Gutenberg makes its metadata available in bulk [7] but neither
Google, Microsoft, nor OCA does (though OCA does make its metadata
available from each individual book page). A question on AUTOCAT about
who is loaded Gutenberg records into their catalogs went unanswered.[8]
The mid-September thread on these issues suggested this should be
systematized and in [2], Michael Norman mentioned that OCLC is working
on this. In the meantime, I'm wondering:
A. Has anyone picked up and loaded UIUC's records, put the LibraryThing
data to their catalogs, or otherwise come up with ways to link to mass
digitized books from their catalog?
B. Has anyone loaded the records for the Project Gutenberg books to
their catalogs?
C. Are your patrons asking for this service?
--SET
[1]http://www.lib.umich.edu/mdp/MDP_Workflow_Chart_final.png
[2]http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.culture.libraries.ngc4lib/3239/focus=32
47
[3]http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.culture.libraries.ngc4lib/3239/focus=32
51
[4]http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.culture.libraries.ngc4lib/3239/focus=32
42
[5]http://www.librarything.com/blog/2007/09/google-book-search-on-librar
ything.php
[6]http://www.librarything.com/blog/2007/09/google-book-search-search-ag
ain.php
[7]http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds
[8]http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.education.libraries.autocat/663/
Received on Thu Oct 18 2007 - 18:19:36 EDT
