WorldCat Works Data

Hi all,

I would just like to share my pleasure at being able to stop hinting that "OCLC were doing something about bibliographic descriptions at the work level".

I have just announced a preview release of some 194 million open bibliographic work descriptions from WorldCat.org<http://WorldCat.org>.

Of course extensive use is made of Schema.org<http://Schema.org> and SchemaBibEx proposals ;-)

It is a preview release as it is intended to increase the quality of data, linking and mark up over the near future.

I have posted a blog with more detail: http://dataliberate.com/2014/02/oclc-preview-194-million-open-bibliographic-work-descriptions/

Regards,
     Richard