Teets, "NISO Next Generation Discovery"

Chapel Hill, NC
27 March 2008
NISO
Next Generation Discovery
Mike Teets
VP Global Engineering, OCLC
NISO Discovery Tools Forum 2008

Agenda
• What tools and why
• Worldcat xISBN, xISSN, xID
• Worldcat Identities
• Worldcat API
• Worldcat Registry
• Worldcat OpenURL Gateway
• Worldcat Developers Network

Polyjuice Potion in the Book World
11 versions in WorldCat

105 ISBNs:
32 English (US and UK)
9 Spanish
3 Russian, German, Finnish , Latin
2 Chinese, Czech, French, Korean, Norwegian, Persian,
Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Turkish, Welsh,
1 Afrikaans, Albanian, Armenian, Basque, Bengali,
Georgian, Galician, Gaelic, Ancient Greek, Greek,
Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese,
Latvian, Lithuanian, Malayalam, Sherpa, Slovenian,
Swedish, Thai, Ukranian, Urdu
16 Audio
59 Book
21 Paperback
There are at least 50 more ISBNs for this that are not yet in
Worldcat!

ISBNs identify things for sale in bookstores…
ISBN 1593967578
Year 5 Harry Potter Bust
ISBN-13: 9781593967574
Manufacturer: Diamond Comics
About This Item
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is set to
be released in 2007, and this bust is based
o of original scan data from the ﬁlm. Harry
is holding the Prophecy Orb and his signature
wand. Harry stands 6 1/4" tall. Comes with a
hand-numbered Certiﬁcate of Authenticity.
…Like this authentic Harry Potter Bust

Library patrons just want the Book!
ISBN: 0545010225 Publication Year: 2007 Language: eng Form: Hardcover
ISBN: 0545029368 Publication Year: 2007 Language: eng Form: Book
ISBN: 0739360418 Publication Year: 2007 Language: eng Form: Audio Edition:Library ed.
ISBN: 073936040X Publication Year: 2007 Language: eng Form: Audio Edition:Library ed.
ISBN: 0747591075 Publication Year: 2007 Language: eng Form: Hardcover Edition:Special ed.
ISBN: 0747591083 Publication Year: 2007 Language: eng Form: Book Edition:Large print ed.
Problem: patrons don't want to see 11 records for one
work

Solution: WorldCat xISBN Service
The xISBN service is a machine-to-machine service.
xISBN supplies ISBNs and other information associated with an individual
intellectual work in WorldCat.
Submit an ISBN to this service, and it returns a list of related ISBNs and
selected metadata.
Example request URL:
http://xisbn.worldcat.org/webservices/xid/isbn/0590353403?method=getEd
itions&ﬂ=*

And now for something completely different...
Actually, not entirely different. So, that’s why we built...
Serials
xISSN
Find title history, info and
all versions of a serial.

WorldCat xISSN Service
Like xISBN, xISSN is a machine-to-machine service.
xISSN supplies information about title history, title info, and related
versions (print/electronic, predecessor/successor, etc.)
Submit an ISSN to this service, and it returns a list of related ISSNs and
selected metadata.
But we’ve also made a Title History graphing feature specially for humans
to look at…
NEW
!

To come: WorldCat xIdentifier Services
xOCLCnum service on the drawing
board
WorkID service?
What would YOU like to see?

More Info: WorldCat xISBN & xISSN Services
http://xisbn.worldcat.org/
Mailing list
Support
Documentation
Contact us:
Tim McCormick: mccormit@oclc.org

Worldcat Identities
OCLC Programs and Research

Current Releases
• Feb 2007 OCLC Research release
• December 2007 Worldcat.org link from Details:Authors
• Phase 2 planning underway now
• Beta Interface available at
http://oralabs.oclc.org/identities

Core Features
• Overview
• Publication Timeline (about author, by author, etc.)
• Audience Level
• http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/audience
• Related Identities
• Fast Subject clouds of author publications
• http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/fast

WorldCat API Invitation Only Release
What is it?
A set of Web Services that
• Access WorldCat records and holdings
• Enables mashups with WorldCat
A Web Service is a software component
• Defined via a machine readable description
• Capable of being accessed via standard network protocols.

WorldCat API Invitation Only Release
What is it?
• WorldCat Search – Return Citations – Return Holding info
• Request Protocols: OpenSearch & SRU
• Response Formats: RSS, Atom (OS); Marc XML, DC
(SRU)
• Return holdings based on geographic context
• This release starting February
• Determine next steps based on experience

WorldCat API – Example ‘light’ client

WorldCat API Web Services Evaluator –
Example ‘light’ client

January 2008
OpenSearch used to search “civil war”
Atom is assumed if no format is specified.
http://wcapi.oclc.org/catalog/search/worldcat/opens
earch?q=civil%20war
And here the RSS 2.0 format is requested.
http://wcapi.oclc.org/catalog/search/worldcat/opens
earch?q=civil%20war&format=rss

Result of OpenSearch using Atom
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" standalone="no" ?>
<feed xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:opensearch="http://a9.com/-
/spec/opensearch/1.1/" xmlns:srw="http://www.loc.gov/zing/srw/">
<title>OCLC Worldcat Search: civil war</title>
<link href="http://wapi-
dev.oclc.org/webservices/catalog/search/worldcat/opensearch?q=civil+war&start=1&co
unt=5&format=atom" />
<description>Search results for civil war at http://wapi-
dev.oclc.org/webservices/catalog</description>
<opensearch:totalResults>322066</opensearch:totalResults>
<opensearch:startIndex>1</opensearch:startIndex>
<opensearch:itemsPerPage>5</opensearch:itemsPerPage>
<opensearch:Query role="request" searchTerms="civil war" startPage="1" />

OpenSearch & Atom continued – some of the
links
<link rel="self"
href="http://wcapi.oclc.org/webservices/catalog/search/worldcat/opens
earch?q=civil+war&start=1&count=5&format=atom"
type="application/atom+xml" />
<link rel="next"
<link rel="last"

OpenSearch & Atom continued – one of the
brief records
<entry>
<title>Lincoln : a photobiography / Russell Freedman.</title>
<link href="http://worldcat.org/oclc/15053078" />
<id>15053078</id>
<updated>2007-07-29T08:41:16Z</updated>
<content type="html">Freedman, Russell . <u>Lincoln: a
photobiography</u>. New York, N.Y.: Clarion Books, 1987.</content>
<summary>Photographs and text trace the life of the Civil War
President.</summary>
</entry>

SRU XML MARC search “civil war” and
retrieve full MARC record
A SRU request in XML Marc format
http://wcapi.oclc.org/webservices/catalog/search/worldcat/sru?query=
srw.kw%3D%22civil%20war%22&version=1.1&operation=searchRetrie
ve&recordSchema=info%3Asrw%2Fschema%2F1%2Fmarcxml&resultSe
tTTL=300&recordPacking=xml&recordXPath=&sortKeys=&recordStart
=1&maximumRecords=10
And a search for the top record of this result only
http://wcapi.oclc.org/webservices/catalog/content/15053078

Result of a full record in XML MARC

Result of a full record in XML MARC – page 2

Result of a record in XML MARC

WorldCat Registry
worldcat.org/registry/institutions
• A global directory of libraries, their locations, contacts, and the
services they provide – 93,000 entries to date
• Free for all libraries to maintain and share with partners
• Pre-populated with data we
already have, augmented by
libraries and partners
• Centralized data essential for
delivering content and services
more efficiently on the Web

Worldcat OpenURL
Gateway
OCLC GRID

Gateway will redirect OpenURLs to registered resolvers based on the
requester’s IP address.
OpenURL Resolver Gateway

Worldcat Developers Network
Roy Tennant mailto:tennantr@oclc.org
Don Hamparian mailto:hamparid@oclc.org
Developer’s Network Home Page (wiki V1)
http://worldcat.org/devnet

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