Re: WorldCat Works Data

Very cool.  I don't see anything that describes the criteria for
"workness."  Are editions in multiple languages (ie translations)
considered the same work?  Different formats such as audiobooks?  How are
multi-volume works handled?

Can you say more about how the stable identifiers will be managed?  It
seems like there's an inherent conflict between improving the quality (ie
changing) and maintaining stability.  Clearly two works that get merged
could just be a redirect, but what about when a work gets split into two?

Is there a bulk download available or do we just have to work our way from
    http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/1.nt
to
    http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/195000000.nt
one at a time?

Where should bugs be reported?  There appears to be something funky with
the way non-existent IDs are handled.  If you fetch
http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/195000000.nt then
http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/196000000.nt you end up
receiving the same data again.

Tom



On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 9:05 AM, Wallis,Richard <Richard.Wallis@oclc.org>wrote:

>  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.
>
>  Of course extensive use is made of 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
>
>