{"id":35,"date":"2006-06-21T07:39:59","date_gmt":"2006-06-21T14:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bookism.org\/open\/2006\/06\/21\/open-world-cat\/"},"modified":"2006-06-21T22:17:54","modified_gmt":"2006-06-22T02:17:54","slug":"open-world-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bookism.org\/open\/2006\/06\/21\/open-world-cat\/","title":{"rendered":"Open World Cat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In typical OCLC style, a quiet revolution is brewing. Formerly a subscription-only database, WorldCat has begun to progagate into search engines&#8211;Google, Yahoo, and Ask in particular&#8211;and with the merger of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redlightgreen.com\/\">RLG<\/a>, it looks like a truly spectacular interface could be created to the union catalog.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, it&#8217;s curious that OCLC <a href=\"http:\/\/orweblog.oclc.org\/archives\/000925.html\">chose<\/a> to use an ISBN-based permalink structure instead of <a href=\"http:\/\/orweblog.oclc.org\/archives\/000734.html#comments\">OpenURL<\/a>. It does <a href=\"http:\/\/libraryjournal.com\/article\/CA515803.html\">showcase<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oclc.org\/research\/projects\/frbr\/\">FRBR<\/a>, but beyond that it&#8217;s not very interoperable.<\/p>\n<p>The real question is, will OCLC enter the SEO (search engine optimization) business so that library results show on the first page?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bookism.org\/open\/2006\/06\/21\/open-world-cat\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Open World Cat\"><p>In typical OCLC style, a quiet revolution is brewing. Formerly a subscription-only database, WorldCat has begun to progagate into search engines&#8211;Google, Yahoo, and Ask in particular&#8211;and with the merger of RLG, it looks like a truly spectacular interface could be created to the union catalog. In the meantime, it&#8217;s curious that OCLC chose to use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1714,1715],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-35","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-open-url","7":"category-open-worldcat","8":"h-entry","9":"hentry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Tn4G-z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookism.org\/open\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookism.org\/open\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookism.org\/open\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookism.org\/open\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookism.org\/open\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookism.org\/open\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookism.org\/open\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookism.org\/open\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookism.org\/open\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}