Re: WorldCat Works Data

Hi Richard,

Has OCLC been thinking about how this might intersect with the BIBFRAME 
model?  BF hasn't done well (yet) in dealing with the concept of FRBR 
work and its support through an "authority." While not a traditional 
authority, these work descriptions could be very useful as a 
bf:hasAuthority for a bf:Work.

Philip

On 2/25/2014 6:05 AM, Wallis,Richard 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 <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
>


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