Pull quote: “WorldCat.org is now publishing linked data for hundreds of millions of bibliographic items – that’s a heck of a lot of linked data by anyone’s measure. By far the largest linked bibliographic resource on the web. Also it is linked data describing things, that for decades librarians in tens of thousands of libraries all over the globe have been carefully cataloguing so that the rest of us can find out about them. Just the sort of authoritative resources that will help stitch the emerging web of data together.”
Pull quote: “OCLC, you’ve been trying for a while to show us that you’re not scared of the future, you understand how you need to change to meet the future and are confidently and carefully executing a strategic plan to do so — your attempts to make us think you know what you’re doing and have things under control are not working.”
Pull quote: “With the addition of Schema.org mark-up to all book, journal and other bibliographic resources in WorldCat.org, the entire publicly available version of WorldCat is now available for use by intelligent Web crawlers, like Google and Bing, that can make use of this metadata in search indexes and other applications.”
Free! Pull quote: “Following the success of the recent Seeking Synchronicity webinar, OCLC along with various groups and consortia are offering a series of webinars to discuss and explore best practices in Virtual Reference. The series is free and will encourage continued localized conversations about improving virtual reference services amongst your group or consortia.”
