Metadata From the Internet Archive’s Digital Book Collection Coming to OCLC WorldCat
In a couple of words, exciting news follows. Kudos to the IA and OCLC!
From an Joint Internet Archive and OCLC Announcement by Jim Michalko:
We are pleased to announce that the Internet Archive and OCLC have agreed to synchronize the metadata describing our digital books with OCLC’s WorldCat.
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When the synchronization work is complete, library patrons will be able to discover the Internet Archive’s collection of 2.5 million digitized monographs through the libraries around the world that use OCLC’s bibliographic services. Readers searching for a particular volume will know that a digital version of the book exists in our collection.
Read the Complete Announcement (Including Comments From Brewster Kahle and Chip Nilges) | OCLC Post
Note: This is the Third Major Announcement from the Internet Archive This Week. See Also:
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.
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