Automated Interactions With WorldCat:

A Look at OCLC’s WorldCat Metadata

API

OCLC Developer’s Network

http://oclc.org/developer/

Opening up WorldCat

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Available Operations

Metadata API

• Create/Read/Update Bibliographic Records

• Update/Delete Institutional Holdings

• Retrieve Holding Code information about an Institution (Why?)

• Create/Read/Update Local Bibliographic Data

Challenges: Authentication

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Challenges: Documentation

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Challenges: No Sandbox

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But this is really cool because we can…

Metadata API

• Further automate traditional technical services processes

• Specifically holdings management

• Batch record ingestion

• Build pipelines between our repository systems and WorldCat

• Develop localized interfaces for metadata entry outside the library

• Opens up the opportunity for tool builders to interact with the OCLC

member community

MarcEdit

MarcEdit

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Batch Institutional Holdings Management

MarcEdit Integration

Batch Bibliographic Record Creation/Updating

MarcEdit Integration

Just don’t forget changes are made live…

MarcEdit Integration

Conspicuously Absent Operations

Metadata API

• Record Validation

• Anything to do with authority data

• Record Locking (for record editing)

• Service Status

• User Validation (for permission validation)

What more information?

More Information

• OCLC’s Developer Network:

• http://oclc.org/developer/

• OCLC Metadata API Documentation:

• http://oclc.org/developer/services/worldcat-metadata-api

• Notes on MarcEdit Integration:

• http://blog.reeset.net/archives/1245

• C# OCLC API Library

• https://github.com/reeset/oclc_api

Thank You!