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Work pages in WorldCat

Diane Vizine-GoetzOCLC Research

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Work pages

Research project

Goal is to create rich descriptions from catalog data

Resulting in a page for every work

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Related projectsFictionFinder

WorldCat Identities

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Users want the catalog to be more like their favorite web sites

ConvenientEasy to useUsefulInterestingFun

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Users want rich content

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What’s in WorldCat?

FRBR Work Set Count

Cover Art 2,365,961Summary/Abstract 6,278,014Table of Contents 4,714,103Total works sets 12,169,454

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A Work Page aggregates data from a FRBR work set

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Work pagesContent

Cover artGenre termsSubjectsFormatsSummaries and TOCsDerived termsClassification numbersEdition informationRelated worksPublication dates / places

ServicesOCLC cover art serviceWorldCat IdentitiesClassifyWorldCat apiGoogle charts & mapsPart-of-speech tagger

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Blade runnerI am legendIn defense of foodFast food nationGirl interruptedThe ways of the righteous

Sample work pages

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Project teamJD ShipengroverRoger ThompsonDiane Vizine-Goetz Harry Wagner

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