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crawling bibliographic data

Thursday, January 22, 2009

Today’s Guardian article Why you can’t find a library book in your search engine prompted me to look at Worldcat’s robots.txt file for the first time. Part of the beauty of the web is that it’s an open information space where anyone (people and robots) can start with a single URL and follow their nose [...]

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bibliovirus

Monday, November 3, 2008

Terry’s analysis of the proposed changes to OCLC’s record policy is essential reading. I’m really concerned that these 996 fields will slip somewhat unnoticed into data that I use.

996 $aOCLCWCRUP $iUse and transfer of this record is governed by the OCLC® Policy for Use and Transfer of WorldCat® Records. $uhttp://purl.org/oclc/wcrup

This appears to be an engineered, [...]

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terminology services sneak peak

Thursday, September 11, 2008

I just saw Diane Vizine-Goetz demo OCLC’s Terminology Services at the CENDI/SKOS meeting and was excited to see various things out on the public web. For example, the LCSH concept “World Wide Web” is over here:

http://tspilot.oclc.org/lcsh/sh2008114004

At the moment it’s not the most friendly human readable display, but that’s just a XSLT stylesheet away [...]

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OCLC deserves some REST

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Hey Worldcat Identities you are doing awesome work–you deserve some REST. Why not use content-negotiation to serve up your HTML and XML representations? So:

curl –header “Accept: text/html” http://orlabs.oclc.org/Identities/key/lccn-no99-10609

would return HTML and

curl –header “Accept: application/xml” http://orlabs.oclc.org/Identities/key/lccn-no99-10609

would return XML. This would allow you to:

not be limited to XSLT driven user views (doesn’t that [...]

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oclc registry

Monday, February 19, 2007

So OCLC’s WorldCat Registry is a nice new addition to OCLCs growing list of web services. Do a search for your library and take a look at the URL: aye that’s right it’s SRU. In fact do a view source on the results page and you’ll see an SRU response in XML–the HTML is being [...]

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A Tale of Two Searches

Friday, August 19, 2005

There’s been some interesting discussion about SRW/U vs OpenSearch on some library email lists, blogs, and over in #code4lib. I worked on the SRU and CQL::Parser modules for the Ockham Initiative, and have watched the comparisons to A9’s RSS based OpenSearch with great interest. It’s amazing how similar the goals of these two search technologies [...]

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