The stats are in for the month of March.
Glenn E. Patton reports that:
In March, there were 18,910 Expert Community Experiment replaces. There were 1001 institutions that did at least one replace. Individual institution numbers ranged from 3 institutions doing more than 500 replaces to 242 institutions doing 1 replace each.
Here are the number [...]
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OCLC Expert Community Experiment Update
Posted in OCLC, tagged OCLC, Expert Community Experiment on April 8, 2009 | No Comments »
Guidelines for the Use and Transfer of OCLC-Derived Records
Posted in OCLC, tagged OCLC, record use and transfer policy on March 27, 2009 | No Comments »
The OCLC Review Board of Shared Data Creation and Stewardship has just announced the new Guidelines for the use and transfer of OCLC-records.
Find out more at:
OCLC Guidelines website: http://www.oclc.org/support/documentation/worldcat/records/guidelines/default.htm
Record Use Policy (PDF): http://www.oclc.org/worldcat/catalog/policy/recordusepolicy.pdf
They are asking for your comments! You can either send them directly by email to reviewboard@oclc.org, or post comments on, or http://community.oclc.org/reviewboard/.
There is [...]
OCLC Expert Community Experiment - Statistics
Posted in Linked data, OCLC, cataloging, tagged cataloging, OCLC, Expert Community Experiment on March 22, 2009 | No Comments »
A few days ago, OCLC came out with some statistics about their Expert Community Experiment. Karen Calhoun’s blog, Metablog, displays the results in her post dated March, 19, 2009. It is amazing to see just how engaging the cataloging community is when it comes to helping OCLC perform database maintenance in a “wiki-like” environment.
OCLC explains:
“OCLC’s [...]
Karen Calhoun on librarianship in the 21st century
Posted in OCLC, cataloging, tagged cataloging, OCLC on March 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Resource Shelf recently posted a podcast from Karen Calhoun.
The JISC website summarizes the interview:
“The not-for-profit Online Computer Library Center (OCLC1) is the principal sponsor of JISC’s 2009 annual conference in Edinburgh. In this podcast interview OCLC’s Vice President Karen Calhoun talks to Robert Haymon-Collins, JISC’s Director of Communications and Marketing, to discuss what her organisation [...]
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- Cataloger 2.0
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- Google vs. Semantic Web March 2, 2009 noreply@blogger.com (Jenn Riley)
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- Future4catalogers
- Seeking Clarity April 17, 2009 Heidi Hoerman
- Are “They” Out to Destroy Cataloging? April 15, 2009 Heidi Hoerman
- Ownership versus Openness April 15, 2009 Heidi Hoerman
