To unpack the several questions lurking in Karen’s question.

As to being able to use the WorldCat Works data/identifiers there is no
difference between a or b - it is ODC-BY licensed data.

Getting a Work URI may be easier for a) as they should be able to identify
the OCLC Number and hence use the linked data from it’s URI <
http://worldcat.org/oclc/{ocn}> to pick up the link to it’s work.

Tools such as xISBN <http://xisbn.worldcat.org/xisbnadmin/doc/api.htm> can
step you towards identifier lookups and are openly available for low volume
usage.

Citation lookup is more a bib lookup feature, that you could get an OCLC
Number from. One of colleagues may be helpful on the particulars of this.

Apologies for being WorldCat specific, but Karen did ask.

~Richard.


On 30 April 2014 17:15, Karen Coyle <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> My question has to do with discoverability. Let's say that I have a
> bibliographic database and I want to add the OCLC work identifiers to it.
> Obviously I don't want to do it by hand. I might have ISBNs, but in some
> cases I will have a regular author/title-type citation.
>
> and let's say that I am asking this for two different institutions:
> a) is an OCLC member institution
> b) is not
>
> Thanks,
> kc
>
>
>
>
> On 4/30/14, 8:47 AM, Dan Scott wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 11:37 PM, Roy Tennant <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> This has now instead become a reasonable recommendation
>>>> concerning ODC-BY licensing [3] but the confusion and uncertainty
>>>> about which records an OCLC member may redistribute remains.
>>>>
>>>> [3] http://www.oclc.org/news/releases/2012/201248.en.html
>>>>
>>> Allow me to try to put this confusion and uncertainty to rest once and
>>> for
>>> all:
>>>
>>> ALL THE THINGS. ALL.
>>>
>>> At least as far as we are concerned. I think it's well past time to put
>>> the
>>> past in the past.
>>>
>> That's great, Roy. That's a *lot* simpler than parsing the
>> recommendations, WCRR, community norms, and such at [A, B] :)
>>
>>  Meanwhile, we have just put nearly 200 million works records up as linked
>>> open data. [1], [2], [3]. If that doesn't rock the library open linked
>>> data
>>> world, then no one is paying attention.
>>> Roy
>>>
>>> [1] http://oclc.org/en-US/news/releases/2014/201414dublin.html
>>> [2]
>>> http://dataliberate.com/2014/04/worldcat-works-197-million-
>>> nuggets-of-linked-data/
>>> [3] http://hangingtogether.org/?p=3811
>>>
>> Yes, that is really awesome. But Laura was asking about barriers to
>> open metadata, so damn you for going off-topic with PR around a lack
>> of barriers to some metadata (which, for those who have not looked
>> yet, have a nice ODC-BY licensing statement at the bottom of a given
>> Works page) :)
>>
>> A. http://oclc.org/worldcat/community/record-use.en.html
>> B. http://oclc.org/worldcat/community/record-use/data-
>> licensing/questions.en.html
>>
>
> --
> Karen Coyle
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> m: 1-510-435-8234
> skype: kcoylenet
>



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