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2025-06-10 16:45 UTC
@kiru@openbiblio.social I think that the WorldCat Identities based on data mining the database is (was? getting a 404) a great use of the wealth of data in catalogs. This kind of thinking requires us to stop seeing a catalog as an inventory of separate records but as a rich knowledge environment. Doing so would also help us understand what additional data we need, and what isn't serving us well.
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@kiru@openbiblio.social 2025-06-10 17:21
@kcoyle@mstdn.social Yes, that is true. But I would extend this concepts to other kinds of identifiers, e.g. I just learn some days ago how intensively KBR (ex Royal Library of Belgium) injects ISNI identifiers to their catalogue. The questions are: 1) what about coverage? 2) can external researchers uses WorldCat or ISNI or other library related APIs (e.g. for concepts: DDC, UDC etc.)? I am happy to see that in recent MARC standard updates there are more place for identifiers and provenance information.