[DCRM-L] DCRM(B) and WorldCat

[Joe Springer]

Correct on the main counts.  Note, however, that OCLC has begun storing and
providing access to copy-specific information for libraries using their
WorldShare Management Services.  WMS libraries can add notes and additional
access points as "local bibliographic data." Content in these fields is
*searchable* only within the context of the particular library's "instance"
(fka "library's own catalog").  However for anyone doing a general
worldcat.org search the local bibliographic data of a WMS library does
display *if* one clicks on that particular library's holdings.  That is a
step removed from the display Allison was describing (copy-specific details
displayed alongside the holdings info), but not a very big one.  Perhaps
now that OCLC has begun providing search access to such data within
"catalogs" the idea of access to such data across "catalogs" is not as far
removed as it was when OCLC wasn't in the business of providing more than
rudimentary access to anyone's holdings.

Joe Springer, Curator
Mennonite Historical Library
Goshen College
1700 S Main St
Goshen, IN 46526

On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 12:53 PM, Allison Jai O'Dell <ajodell at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Nina is correct about records coded dcrm[x].
>
> As for Jason's second point, this conversation has been going on at least
> as long as I've been alive
> <http://www.columbia.edu/~daviss/work/articles/iflajournal_1984.pdf>.
> And it keeps coming up, with no good solution.  To my mind, this is the #1
> reason rare materials libraries should be considering linked data.
>
> Jason, if I understand your vision correctly, you would like to see
> copy-specific details displayed alongside the holding info?  Like:
> *U.Miami has copy  |  U.Miami's copy in a blue cover.*
> *Yale has copy  |  Yale's copy in a yellow cover.  Yale's copy donated by
> Joe Shmoe.*
>
> Or maybe through a bit of personalization?
> *I see you're near New Haven.  Yale's copy is in a yellow cover, and was
> donated by Joe Shmoe.*
>
> OCLC is not going to store and provide access to copy-specific
> information.  The solution is for *us* to expose our copy-specific
> information.  If we, at our institutions, build open, accessible,
> interoperable, linked data -- then WorldCat, Google, whoever, can use it.
> And then researchers can see it!
>
>
> Allison
>
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