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OCLC and the Social Web: Building tools, providing platforms, engaging the community

OCLC and the Social Web: Building tools, providing platforms, engaging the community. International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications. Eric Childress Consulting Project Manager OCLC Office of Research childree@oclc.org.

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OCLC and the Social Web: Building tools, providing platforms, engaging the community

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  1. OCLC and the Social Web:Building tools, providing platforms, engaging the community InternationalConference onDublin Core andMetadataApplications Eric ChildressConsulting Project ManagerOCLC Office of Researchchildree@oclc.org Andy HavensManager of Branding andCreative Services, OCLChavensa@oclc.org

  2. OCLC: Member owned and governed since 1967. Mission: Connecting people to knowledge through library cooperation. Vision:The world’s libraries. Connected.

  3. Introduction to OCLC • World’s largest library cooperative. Established in 1967 in Ohio, USA. Non-profit charter to reduce rate of rise of library costs and increase access to the world’s information. • WorldCat union catalog: Cooperative database of 145 million+ records, representing materials in 71,000 libraries in 112 countries. • WorldCat Resource Sharing: World’s largest inter-library loan network, reaching 10,000 libraries with a transaction every 4 seconds. • WebJunction.org: Peer-to-peer training and support network for libraries. • OCLC Research: Leading applied research center for libraries, archives, museums. Hosted original Dublin Core meeting in 1995.

  4. Building tools: WorldCat.org

  5. Building tools: WorldCat.org social features List watching Lists Portablesearch box User tags RSS Feeds Reviews and ratings

  6. Providing platforms: Facebook App for WorldCat Local sites & CiteMe tool Learn more at:http://apps.facebook.com/worldcat/ Learn more at: http://apps.facebook.com/citemeapp/ Learn about the Developers’ Network at: http://www.worldcat.org/devnet/wiki/Main_Page

  7. Engaging the community:OCLC and the wider, social Web • 13 official blogs and counting; 12 in English, 1 in English, Spanish & Portuguese. Subscribe to any/all at: www.oclc.org/rss/ • 10+ product-related discussion lists plus hosted lists: https://www3.oclc.org/app/listserv/ • Twitter: @oclc, @oclcdevnet + dozens of personal OCLC employee accounts (e.g., @lorcanD) • Facebook: WorldCat.org applications, OCLC, WorldCat, WebJunction, other fan pages • WebJunction forums, OCLC Developer’s Network • Content on oclc.org (articles, reports, Webinars, news, some datasets) available as HTML, RSS, etc. • Growing the size and scope of OCLC-provided linked data (e.g., VIAF – a multi-national authority file). See: http://outgoing.typepad.com/outgoing/2009/09/viaf-as-linked-data.html OCLC blogs… your glimpse into our minds

  8. Engaging the community:OCLC reports and more Sharing, Privacy and Trust in Our Networked World http://www.oclc.org/reports/sharing/default.htm NextSpace: Libraries and social networking http://www.oclc.org/nextspace/007/1.htm “Some thoughts about egos, objects, and social networks”http://orweblog.oclc.org/archives/001601.html

  9. Thank you! • If you have a moment, we invite you to take a look at these OCLC blogs… And we welcome your comments! • Lorcan Dempsey’s Weblog: orweblog.oclc.org • WorldCat Blog: worldcat.org/blogs • It’s all good: scanblog.blogspot.com • Hanging Together: hangingtogether.org • Outgoing: outgoing.typepad.com/outgoing • Designing the Future: community.oclc.org/engineering • Metalogue: community.oclc.org/metalogue • Hectic Pace: community.oclc.org/hecticpace • Weibel Lines: weibel-lines.typepad.com • The Dewey blog: ddc.typepad.com • BlogJunction: blog.webjunctionworks.org Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unportedhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/

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