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- WorldCat Identities: A service that provides personal, corporate and subject-based identities (writers, authors, characters, corporations, horses, ships, etc.) based on information in WorldCat.
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Use the search box on entities.oclc.org to find and view WorldCat Entities for Persons, Places, Events, and Works. Browse through different languages and explore the way each entity links to other external vocabularies and authority files for further context.
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Feb 29, 2024 · WorldCat Entities allows users to search, view, and download WorldCat Entities and their associated information. Browse through entity results and explore how each entity links to other WorldCat Entities, external vocabularies, and authority files for further context.
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The OCLC Research Identities work provided valuable insight into how to mine bibliographic data for insight into the People and Organizations that create and serve as subjects for library materials. We have taken the findings of the research effort and used them to start to build the WorldCat Entities data. These new Entities and their persistent U...
WorldCat Identities has a summary page for every name in WorldCat (currently some 30 million names) including named persons, organizations and fictitious characters. The pages include information derived from WorldCat and other sources (VIAF, FAST) plus with unique data derived or created through a variety of special processing activities (e.g., Wo...
WorldCat Identities arose from a "what if?" exploration led by Chief Scientist Thom Hickey with other members of what would become the WorldCat Identities team. The idea was to explore automatically assembling as much information as possible from WorldCat and other resources stewarded by OCLC about a given person, organization or fictitious charact...
WorldCat offers a wide range of functions in addition to its core index, such as the experimental WorldCat Identities (WI). This tool brings together the “complete works” of any given author, reporting the library diffusion data of their works overall for the author and by individual publication. It also integrates context-based
WorldCat Identities: A service that provides personal, corporate and subject-based identities (writers, authors, characters, corporations, horses, ships, etc.) based on information in WorldCat.
Feb 14, 2022 · WorldCat Entities is a persistent, shared, and centralized entity management infrastructure for library linked data work.
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