Hi Alex - No, we haven't particularly been a part of "opening up Worldcat stuff," other than the tiniest collaboration with Bruce @ OCLC Research, who wrote an independent bot to update OL records with OCLC IDs where he could find a match on ISBN.
More info on that: http://blog.openlibrary.org/2011/05/03/the-little-bot-that-could/ Cheers, george On 5/26/11 8:00 AM, Alex Stinson wrote: > Hey all, > > This was brought to my attention recently on a Wikipedia mailing list: > http://everybodyslibraries.com/2011/05/24/open-datas-role-in-transforming-our-bibliographic-framework/ > > Has open library been part of opening up the Worldcat stuff? Are we thinking > about incorporating that data into our database? > > Alex > User:Sadads > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ol-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > [email protected] _______________________________________________ Ol-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
