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Author:		Raymond Yee
Posted:		1/31/2005; 3:22:56 PM
Topic:		OCLC's software competition
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OCLC's software competition #

OCLC Software competition: It's very tempting to figure out how to enter the competition -- though I doubt that I will time to apply myself to thinking that hard about OCLC's service offerings. At the very least, the contest is a chance to think about how to make use of the OCLC services. A quick glance at OCLC's ResearchWorks, I can seem making use of a number of services in my Scholar's Box work:

About xISBN: "xISBN supplies ISBNs associated with individual intellectual works represented in the OCLC WorldCat database. Give it an ISBN, and it returns a list of associated ISBNs." (In collecting books, I will want to understand the relationships among different versions of the same work. (think FRBR)
About the metadata crosswalk repository: "a prototype for a repository of metadata crosswalks, called SchemaTrans." I've been interested in the OCLC Metadata Switch for a while....and plan to come back to take a look. Right now, I'm working on a crosswalk MARC XML to OpenURLs. I will want soon to crosswalk a wider range bibliographic metadata formats.
the OpenURL Framework Repository
maybe, some of the OCLC's Terminology Services

Posted by Raymond Yee on 1/31/05; 3:23:52 PM
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