With WorldCat Discovery

WorldCat Discovery helps your library have a greater impact. Smarter searching with easy access to local and global resources—in all kinds of formats—inspires bold ideas. Every WorldCat Discovery feature and enhancement, small or large, is influenced by input from library staff and end users. We combine this feedback with a methodological approach to testing, a mix of technology and library expertise, and a broad view beyond the library community.[ReadMore]

Turning bibliographic metadata into actionable knowledge

by: Jeff Mixter

OCLC has been publishing bibliographic linked data since 2012. Since then we have published three major datasets as linked open data: WorldCat.org, WorldCat Works and OCLC Persons.

As we continue to work on creating and publishing linked data, a key goal is to demonstrate how this technology fits into library workflows and how it can add value for both librarians and users.

As part of this process, OCLC Research has used the recent work of Google Research as inspiration for the development of a Knowledge Vault pipeline. The focus of our effort is to develop a pipeline process that allows for the harvesting, extraction, normalization, scoring/weighting and synthesizing of knowledge from Authority files, bibliographic records and eventually resources from across the Web such as WikiData or user-contributed feedback.[ReadMore]