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WorldCat is used by librarians for cataloging and research and by the general public. As of December 2021, WorldCat contained over 540 million bibliographic records in 483 languages, representing over 3 billion physical and digital library assets, and the WorldCat persons dataset (mined from WorldCat) included over 100 million people.
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 ...
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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.
WorldCat. WorldCat is a very big online catalog, a list of books and things like books in tens of thousands of libraries in many countries. [1] WorldCat was built by OCLC, which is an organization of libraries. WorldCat is maintained by the group of libraries in OCLC. [2]
National libraries all over the world share their collections through WorldCat. This allows libraries everywhere to connect people with information about many cultures and national identities. WH = Number of WorldCat holdings OR = Number of original records. Data current as of November 2020.
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