Eric,
WorldCat Metadata API provides read and write API access to the data in
WorldCat: bibliographic records, local bibliographic data and basic
holdings. WorldCat Discovery API provides access to search WorldCat and
OCLC's Central Index of metadata based on a diverse set of indexes. Data is
Arash,
I don't believe this functionality currently exists, but I've passed
on your desire to those in a position to do something about it.
Thanks,
Roy
On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 9:59 AM, Arash.Joorabchi arash.joorab...@ul.ie wrote:
Hi all,
When viewing a work's metadata on WorldCat.org website,
+1
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 3:00 PM, Richard Wallis
richard.wal...@dataliberate.com wrote:
The Linked Data for the millions of resources in WorldCat.org is now
available as RDF/XML, JSON-LD, Turtle, and Triples via content-negotiation.
Details:
Probably something I'm doing wrong, since I'm just copying and pasting,
but the command from the blog post:
curl -L -H Accept: text/turtle http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41266045
gets me:
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: text; nodename nor servname provided,
or not known
kc
On 6/3/13 12:00
I also get a good response from that, Karen.
I've seen this error in the past when DNS doesn't resolve. Possibly you're
having connectivity issues.
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Kyle Banerjee kyle.baner...@gmail.comwrote:
What you've provided looks like it will work. My money is that the
Ta da! That did it, Kyle. Why on earth do we all them smart quotes ?!
kc
On 6/3/13 4:07 PM, Kyle Banerjee wrote:
Just for the heck of it, I tried copying and pasting and got the same
error. There were smart quotes on the web page. Turn those into regular
single or double quotes and it works
On 04/06/13 11:18, Karen Coyle wrote:
Ta da! That did it, Kyle. Why on earth do we all them smart quotes ?!
Because they look damn sexy when printed on pulp-of-murdered-tree, which
we all know is authoritative form of any communication.
cheers
stuart
--
Stuart Yeates
Library Technology
Those are smart words! Can I quote them?
:P
Regards,
Ben
On 4-6-2013 1:40, stuart yeates wrote:
On 04/06/13 11:18, Karen Coyle wrote:
Ta da! That did it, Kyle. Why on earth do we all them smart quotes ?!
Because they look damn sexy when printed on pulp-of-murdered-tree, which
we all know
Coyle
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2012 6:16 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Worldcat schema.org search API
Ross, it might not be yahoo, but that doesn't mean I know what it is.
The pyRDFa utility returns garbage for RDF/XML and TTL, but not for
JSON. It's only
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Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2012 6:16 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Worldcat schema.org search API
Ross, it might not be yahoo, but that doesn't mean I know what
On 7/10/12 5:07 PM, Karen Coyle wrote:
On 7/10/12 4:02 PM, Richard Wallis wrote:
But is it available to everyone, and is the data retrieved also
usable as
ODC-BY by any member of the Web public?
Yes it is, and at this stage it is only available from within a html
page.
The it I was
Well, I got the same email today when I apparently clicked on the
wrong link (in the wrong account) while looking for my existing WC
Basic API WSKEY (seriously, OCLC, the developer site is *terrible*
with regards to usability).
That said, here are the steps to get a WC Basic API WSKEY:
Log in
Karen,
Unfortunately it looks like you requested a key for the WorldCat
Search API which does have specific eligibility criteria. The WorldCat
Basic API which Ross mentions is available to anyone -
http://www.oclc.org/developer/services/worldcat-basic-api
It allows you to do an OpenSearch
It isn't unfortunate, it was deliberate. I have a key for the basic api,
but I was being advised that I had overlooked the obvious answer of the
worldcat search API. I have no confusion between the two, except for the
confusion that seems to be promulgated by OCLC itself.
kc
On 7/12/12 9:46
Ok, the Pipe didn't quite work as planned. Yahoo! is stripping out
all of the relevant html attributes when it's converting the WC
microdata html to a string, which renders the whole thing useless.
If I don't convert it to a string, it maintains all of the necessary
attributes in the JSON
That only returns a short citation but nothing says how short that
citation is, nor if it is formatted. I assume that citation means
citation format, which isn't useful.
kc
On 7/10/12 7:32 PM, Ross Singer wrote:
Worldcat does have the basic API, which is more open (assuming your
situation
Every entry has a link href=http://worldcat.org/oclc/{oclcnumber}/
that will take you to the schema.org.
-Ross.
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote:
That only returns a short citation but nothing says how short that
citation is, nor if it is formatted. I assume
Also, my colleague wishes me to point out that the email address and
phone number of any OCLC staff member is only two clicks away from our
home page. Go to Contact us which is an option along the top on
every page, then Contact OCLC Staff which is in the sidebar and also
a link on the page as
Hi Karen
At this stage there is no specific api as such to get at the embedded RDFa
data in WorldCat - you can use the normal UI of WorldCat itself or one of
the WorldCat Search API options such as
OpenSearchhttp://oclc.org/developer/documentation/worldcat-search-api/opensearch.
This
Thanks, Roy. I obviously never got there, but will visit in the future.
kc
On 7/10/12 12:57 PM, Roy Tennant wrote:
Also, my colleague wishes me to point out that the email address and
phone number of any OCLC staff member is only two clicks away from our
home page. Go to Contact us which is an
As for someone who might want to do this programmatically, he/she should
take a look at the Programming languages section of the second link I
sent along:
http://schema.rdfs.org/tools.html
There one can find Ruby, Python, and Java extractors and parsers capable
of outputting RDF. A
Kevin, if you misunderstand then I undoubtedly haven't been clear (let's
at least share the confusion :-)). Here's the use case:
PersonA wants to create a comprehensive bibliography of works by
AuthorB. The goal is to do a search on AuthorB in WorldCat and extract
the RDFa data from those
Karen,
RDFa and the basic schema.org vocabulary, plus the intention of the
proposed library extension, are not OCLC specific - they are generic tools
and techniques applicable across many domains.
I would therefore avoid library focussed tool sites, which would run the
risk of not keeping up
The use case clarifies perfectly.
Totally feasible. Well, I should say totally feasible with the caveat
that I've never used the Worldcat Search API. Not letting that stop me,
so long as it is what I imagine it is, then a developer should be able
to perform a search, retrieve the response,
Uh...what? For the given use case you would be much better off simply
using the WorldCat Search API response. Using it only to retrieve an
identifier and then going and scraping the Linked Data out of a
WorldCat.org page is, at best, redundant.
As Richard pointed out, some use cases -- like the
Does the worldcat search api return the data as described with the
schema.org and OCLC extension vocabularies?
The use case mentioned extracting the RDFa data from those pages.
Without knowing the answer to the leading question above, the mock
solution addressed that condition. If one simply
I think we have a catch-22 here. You need an OCLC developer license to
use WC to discover WC URIs using an application; you need WC URIs (or
other URIs that are not very diffuse on the Web) to make use of the OCLC
linked data. The OCLC linked data is ODC-BY for anyone wishing to use
the data,
On 7/10/12 2:10 PM, Roy Tennant wrote:
Uh...what? For the given use case you would be much better off simply
using the WorldCat Search API response. Using it only to retrieve an
identifier and then going and scraping the Linked Data out of a
WorldCat.org page is, at best, redundant.
I do not
On 10 July 2012 23:13, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote:
On 7/10/12 2:10 PM, Roy Tennant wrote:
Uh...what? For the given use case you would be much better off simply
using the WorldCat Search API response. Using it only to retrieve an
identifier and then going and scraping the Linked Data
On 7/10/12 4:02 PM, Richard Wallis wrote:
But is it available to everyone, and is the data retrieved also usable as
ODC-BY by any member of the Web public?
Yes it is, and at this stage it is only available from within a html page.
The it I was referring to was the API. Roy is telling me that
Worldcat does have the basic API, which is more open (assuming your
situation qualifies). At any rate, it's free and open to (non-commercial)
non-subscribers.
http://oclc.org/developer/documentation/worldcat-basic-api/using-api
Searching isn't terribly sophisticated, but might suit your need.
-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of
Karen Coombs
Sent: 17 May 2012 08:37
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] WorldCat SRU queries - elimination of records
without a DDC no from the result set
I forwarded this thread
,
Arash
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Simon Spero
Sent: 22 May 2012 19:47
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] WorldCat SRU queries - elimination of records
without a DDC no from the result set
Arash - you might
Sent: 17 May 2012 08:37
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] WorldCat SRU queries - elimination of records without
a DDC no from the result set
I forwarded this thread to the Product Manager for the WorldCat Search
API. She responded back that unfortunately this query
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Coombs
Sent: 17 May 2012 08:37
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DDC no from the result set
I forwarded this thread to the Product Manager for the WorldCat Search
API. She responded back that unfortunately
: Re: [CODE4LIB] WorldCat SRU queries - elimination of records without
a DDC no from the result set
I forwarded this thread to the Product Manager for the WorldCat Search
API. She responded back that unfortunately this query is not possible
using the API at this time.
FYI, the SRU interface
:
Message:
Not enough chars in truncated term:Truncated words too short(9)
Thanks,
Arash
From: Houghton,Andrew [mailto:hough...@oclc.org]
Sent: 16 May 2012 11:58
To: Arash.Joorabchi
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] WorldCat SRU queries - elimination
There is no standard way in CQL to express field X is not empty.
Depending on implementations, NOT srw.dd= might work (but evidently
doesn't in this case). Another possibility is srw.dd=*, but again
that may or may not work, and might be appallingly inefficient if it
does. NOT srw.dd=null will
.
Thanks for your quick reply.
Arash
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Taylor
Sent: 16 May 2012 10:43
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] WorldCat SRU queries - elimination of records without a
DDC no from
/diagnostic/1/9
Meaning:
Details:
Message:
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Thanks,
Arash
From: Houghton,Andrew [mailto:hough...@oclc.org]
Sent: 16 May 2012 11:58
To: Arash.Joorabchi
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] WorldCat
We have been trying to enumerate serials holdings as explicitly as possible.
E.G., this microfiche supplement to a journal,
http://summit.syr.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=274291 shows apparently
missing issues. However, there are two pieces of inferred information here:
1) every print issue had
Don't forget inconsistent data from the person sending the OpenURL.
Rosalyn
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 9:56 PM, Bill Dueber b...@dueber.com wrote:
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Kyle Banerjee baner...@uoregon.edu wrote:
No, but parsing holding statements for something that just gets cut off
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Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 8:57 PM
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On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote:
The trick here is that traditional library metadata practices make it _very
hard_ to tell if a _specific volume/issue_ is held by a given library. And
those are the most common use cases for OpenURL.
Yep. That's true
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From: Code for Libraries [code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Tom Keays
[tomke...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 8:43 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] WorldCat as an OpenURL endpoint ?
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 3:47 PM
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] WorldCat as an OpenURL endpoint ?
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote:
The trick here is that traditional library metadata practices make it _very
hard_ to tell if a _specific volume/issue_ is held by a given library. And
those
The trick here is that traditional library metadata practices make it
_very
hard_ to tell if a _specific volume/issue_ is held by a given library.
And
those are the most common use cases for OpenURL.
Yep. That's true even for individual library's with link resolvers. OCLC is
not
When I've tried to do this, it's been much harder than your story, I'm
afraid.
My library data is very inconsistent in the way it expresses it's
holdings. Even _without_ missing items, the holdings are expressed in
human-readable narrative form which is very difficult to parse reliably.
Kyle Banerjee schrieb:
This might not be as bad as people think. The normal argument is that
holdings are in free text and there's no way staff will ever have enough
time to record volume level holdings. However, significant chunks of the
problem can be addressed using relatively simple methods.
...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Tom Keays
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Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 8:43 AM
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Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] WorldCat as an OpenURL endpoint ?
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu
wrote:
The trick here is that traditional
I do provide the user with the proxied WorldCat URL for just the reasons
Jonathan cites. But, no, being an otherwise open web resource, you can't
force a user to use it.
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.eduwrote:
I haven't yet found any good way to do this if
I'm not sure what you mean by complete holdings? The library holds the
entire run of the journal from the first issue printed to the
last/current? Or just holdings that dont' include missing statements?
Perhaps other institutions have more easily parseable holdings data (or
even holdings data
Oh you really do mean complete like complete publication run? Very
few of our journal holdings are complete in that sense, they are
definitely in the minority. We start getting something after issue 1,
or stop getting it before the last issue. Or stop and then start again.
Is this really
Oh you really do mean complete like complete publication run? Very few
of our journal holdings are complete in that sense, they are definitely in
the minority. We start getting something after issue 1, or stop getting it
before the last issue. Or stop and then start again.
Is this really
for.
From: Code for Libraries [code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Karen Coyle
[li...@kcoyle.net]
Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2010 11:29 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] WorldCat Terminologies
Quoting LeVan,Ralph le...@oclc.org:
I
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Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] WorldCat Terminologies
Yeah, the statement that it's a static copy from 2006 would have stopped me in
my tracks if I had somehow happened accross the page, which I probably wouldn't
have, but now I've bookmarked it so I might find it again -- but will probably
, March 21, 2010 12:19 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] WorldCat Terminologies
Yeah, the statement that it's a static copy from 2006 would have stopped me in
my tracks if I had somehow happened accross the page, which I probably wouldn't
have, but now I've bookmarked it so I
...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Ziso,
Ya'aqov
Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2010 1:09 PM
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Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] WorldCat Terminologies
I'm certain that as Ralph indicated, this file has been kept weekly up-to-date.
The html page header will be, eventually, fixed as well to reflect
19, 2010 3:29 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] WorldCat Terminologies
Jonathan, thank you, in full accord. Yes, the crux of the matter is Names
(NAF being the more expensive library subscription
and the one not available for free like http://id.loc.gov
At http
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Quoting LeVan,Ralph le...@oclc.org:
I hate to muddy the waters, but I can't resist here.
Research also exposes a copy of the LC NAF
...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Karen Coyle
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Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2010 11:29 AM
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Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] WorldCat Terminologies
Quoting LeVan,Ralph le...@oclc.org:
I hate to muddy the waters, but I can't resist here.
Research also exposes a copy of the LC NAF
Ya¹aqov,
We have decided that it is wiser to withdraw the statement from our
brochure, with our apologies, rather than attempt to defend it. We¹re sorry
if this has caused you any trouble.
As for your questions regarding frequency of update and any guaranteed level
of service, we have already
Hello Karen,
Since upkeep done to Terminologies and Identities involves all WorldCat
membership copied to your note, it will be helpful if OCLC Research would
post:
an URL specifying upkeep done to Terminologies
an URL specifying upkeep done to Identities (is NAF used via CONNEXION the
same as
Ya¹aqov,
Identities is not based on a name authority file it is based on name data in
WorldCat. These two are not the same thing. Names within Identities come
from several different fields within the WorldCat MARC records including
1xx, 6xx, and 7xx fields. This is why Identities contains names
Karen,
Seems like pulling-teeth was worth it. Thank you for these updates and for
making them available for all interested.
Essentially, given your 6 months latency compared to http://id.loc.gov) and
the inclusion of NAF and non-NAF headings in Identities,
both Terminologies and Identities are not
Terminologies) are
still very interesting and useful services.
From: Code for Libraries [code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Ya'aqov Ziso
[z...@rowan.edu]
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 2:14 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] WorldCat
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] WorldCat Terminologies
Karen,
Seems like pulling-teeth was worth it. Thank you for these updates and for
making them available for all interested.
Essentially, given your 6 months latency compared to http://id.loc.gov) and
the inclusion of NAF and non-NAF headings
: Friday, March 19, 2010 3:29 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] WorldCat Terminologies
Jonathan, thank you, in full accord. Yes, the crux of the matter is Names
(NAF being the more expensive library subscription
and the one not available for free like http://id.loc.gov
The WorldCat API is not yet in general release. It is presently being beta
tested by invited developers, many of whom (if not all) are on this list.
Thus the confusion. Sorry, but stay tuned. A good way to do that is to sign
up on the WorldCat Developer's Network listserv. A link to the signup
Not really, although we talk about it a lot around here at OCLC.
--Th
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Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 9:34 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [CODE4LIB] worldcat
We here at Notre Dame
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Eric Lease Morgan
Sent: 21 May, 2007 09:34
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [CODE4LIB] worldcat
We here at Notre Dame subscribe to (license?) WorldCat, and
I'm wondering, does it have a Web Services interface/API?
I
On May 21, 2007, at 9:52 AM, Houghton,Andrew wrote:
We here at Notre Dame subscribe to (license?) WorldCat, and
I'm wondering, does it have a Web Services interface/API?
I guess it depends on what you consider a Web Service interface
and API. Today you create URL's to retrieve XHTML
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Eric Lease Morgan
Sent: 22 August, 2006 16:24
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [CODE4LIB] worldcat
Is there a public Z39.50/SRU/SRW/Web Services interface to
WorldCat or OpenWorldCat?
I would like to create a simple
I don't think they have a public one but there is one if your
institution has Firstsearch.
http://www.oclc.org/support/documentation/firstsearch/z3950/fs_z39_config_guide/default.htm
The production server provides access to all the databases available
and requires a valid FirstSearch
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