13 November 2007 ~ 8 Comments

WorldCat Identities

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After CIL last year I briefly mentioned that WorldCat was going to have a new service (WorldCat Identities). Well, this just in from the Outgoing blog:

Over the weekend WorldCat Identities went into production. Personal authors now have a link to their WorldCat Identity page under the Details tab.

As Thom Hickey mentions, it’s still a bit messy because it’s in a WorldCat frame – like our OPACs are when we search WorldCat, but it’s still a pretty neat addition. Here’s the example that Thom gave.

[update] Apparently there is a short URL that you can use to access Identities (via Outgoing) [/update]

Related posts:

  1. WorldCat.org is Live
  2. WorldCat Local Demos
  3. WorldCat Citations
  4. WorldCat Lists
  5. WorldCat Local

8 Responses to “WorldCat Identities”

  1. jessamyn 13 November 2007 at 8:51 pm Permalink

    Facinating. As someone who is both an author and someone who shares a name with an author it’s interesting to see the places that this braks and also where it works. I’ve had my books collocated wihth those of the other jessamyn west I think I just expect it now.

  2. jessamyn 13 November 2007 at 9:51 pm Permalink

    Facinating. As someone who is both an author and someone who shares a name with an author it’s interesting to see the places that this braks and also where it works. I’ve had my books collocated wihth those of the other jessamyn west I think I just expect it now.

  3. Nicole 14 November 2007 at 6:06 am Permalink

    Hmm – do you both have authorized forms of your name in the LOC authority files? I’m wondering how OCLC will handle things like that in the future.

  4. Nicole 14 November 2007 at 7:06 am Permalink

    Hmm – do you both have authorized forms of your name in the LOC authority files? I’m wondering how OCLC will handle things like that in the future.

  5. Peter Murray 15 November 2007 at 8:23 am Permalink

    Apparently there is a short URL that you can use to access Identities

    It is a short URL that leads to a browse list (a.k.a. a disambiguation page). I note, though, that the links to individual records off that browse list are much friendlier (e.g. http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n79-32879 than the ones structured to look like OpenURL queries. I’ve got a comment in Thom’s moderation queue asking him about that…

  6. Peter Murray 15 November 2007 at 9:23 am Permalink

    Apparently there is a short URL that you can use to access Identities

    It is a short URL that leads to a browse list (a.k.a. a disambiguation page). I note, though, that the links to individual records off that browse list are much friendlier (e.g. http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n79-32879 than the ones structured to look like OpenURL queries. I’ve got a comment in Thom’s moderation queue asking him about that…

  7. Nicole 15 November 2007 at 10:51 am Permalink

    Thanks for clarifying!

  8. Nicole 15 November 2007 at 11:51 am Permalink

    Thanks for clarifying!


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