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Author:		Raymond Yee
Posted:		5/20/2003; 4:09:45 PM
Topic:		Tim Bray on his work at OCLC
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Tim Bray on his work at OCLC #

It's truly exciting to see someone of Tim Bray's calibre bring his knowledge and experience of XML to OCLC. Bray describes some of his perspectives on the problem:

In recent months, I've been having serious fun on the job working with OCLC WorldCat data. WorldCat is big - about as big as the Web, and in some respects richer. It is also amazingly under-utilized (what was the last time you did a large-scale search on anything but Google?), and we'd like to fix that. Herewith some notes on who OCLC is, what WorldCat is, and some of the fun we're having. (Warning: long, and with some pitching for Antarctica; but some juicy screenies, and infojunkies must read.)

Many of us are looking forward to seeing what he comes up with. [CurrentCites, SiT, Shifted Librarian]

Posted by Raymond Yee on 5/20/03; 4:12:34 PM
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