Senior OCLC Research Scientist Diane Vizine-Goetz presented "Work pages in WorldCat" at the RLG Partnership Annual Meeting, June 1, 2009.

1. Work pages in WorldCat
Diane Vizine-Goetz
OCLC Research
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2. Work pages
Research project
Goal is to create rich descriptions from
catalog data
Resulting in a page for every work
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3. Related projects
FictionFinder
WorldCat Identities
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4. Users want the catalog to be more like their
favorite web sites
Convenient
Easy to use
Useful
Interesting
Fun
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5. Users want rich content
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6. What’s in WorldCat?
FRBR Work Set
Count
Cover Art 2,365,961
Summary/Abstract 6,278,014
Table of Contents 6
4,714,103
Total works sets 12,169,454

7. A Work Page aggregates data from a FRBR
work set
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8. Work pages
Content Services
Cover art OCLC cover art service
Genre terms WorldCat Identities
Subjects Classify
Formats WorldCat api
Summaries and TOCs Google charts & maps
Derived terms Part-of-speech tagger
Classification numbers
Edition information
Related works 8
Publication dates / places

15. Sample work pages
Blade runner
I am legend
In defense of food
Fast food nation
Girl interrupted
The ways of the righteous
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16. Project team
JD Shipengrover
Roger Thompson
Diane Vizine-Goetz
Harry Wagner
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