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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › WorldCatWorldCat - Wikipedia

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   Options for more sophisticated searches of WorldCat have remained available through the FirstSearch interface. In 2007, WorldCat Identities began providing pages for 20 million "identities", which are metadata about names—predominantly authors and persons who are the subjects of published titles.

   • Available in: 13 languages
   • Type of site: Network of library content and services

   • Commercial: No
   • Owner: OCLC

2. simple.wikipedia.org › wiki › WorldCat_IdentitiesWorldCat Identities - Simple English Wikipedia, the free ...

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   Identities are mostly authors and people who books are about. In May 2019, WorldCat held over 450 million bibliographic records in 484 languages. Record over 2.8 billion physical and digital library items. The WorldCat persons dataset (mined from WorldCat) included over 100 million people. Related pages. Copac; Open Library

   • Commercial: No
   • Type of site: Network of library content and services

   • Launched: January 21, 1998; 25 years ago
   • Owner: Online Computer Library Center

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   What is a WorldCat identity page?

   • A typical WorldCat Identities page will include a list of most widely held-by-libraries works by and about the identity, a list of variant forms of name the identity has been known by, a FAST tag cloud of places, topics, etc. closely related to works by and about the person, links to co-authors, and more.

   WorldCat Identities - OCLC

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   How many 'identities' are there in WorldCat?

   • In 2007, WorldCat Identities began showing pages for 20 million "identities." Identities are mostly authors and people who books are about. In May 2019, WorldCat held over 450 million bibliographic records in 484 languages. Record over 2.8 billion physical and digital library items.

   WorldCat Identities - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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   How do I search WorldCat Identities?

   • Options for more sophisticated searches of WorldCat have remained available through the FirstSearch interface. In 2007, WorldCat Identities began providing pages for 20 million "identities", which are metadata about names—predominantly authors and persons who are the subjects of published titles.

   WorldCat - Wikipedia

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   What is WorldCat entities?

   • Funded in part by a grant from the Mellon Foundation, in partnership with an advisory group of 28 libraries, and built on OCLC’s decades of linked data research, WorldCat Entities represent a critical next step toward making linked data work for libraries.

   WorldCat Entities | OCLC

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4. www.oclc.org › en › worldcatWorldCat Entities | OCLC

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   Since 2009, OCLC has taken a lead role in helping libraries realize the promise of linked data through our ground-breaking research projects and subsequent reports. WorldCat Entities marks a seminal next step in the journey by putting our research into practice. For library staff, linked data makes metadata workflows more efficient by putting ...

5. www.oclc.org › areas › data-scienceWorldCat Identities - OCLC

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   A typical WorldCat Identities page will include a list of most widely held-by-libraries works by and about the identity, a list of variant forms of name the identity has been known by, a FAST tag cloud of places, topics, etc. closely related to works by and about the person, links to co-authors, and more.

6. search.worldcat.orgWorldCat.org

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   Welcome to WorldCat.org. Get started with WorldCat.org. In about two minutes, you can learn how to make a WorldCat.org profile, create and add items to lists, export citations, and use facets to narrow your search criteria. It’s a quick way to introduce yourself to the basics of searching the world’s largest collection of information about ...

7. www.oclc.org › terminologies_identitiesSee WorldCat Identities in action: WorldCat Identities ... - OCLC

   www.oclc.org › terminologies_identities

   WorldCat Identities: A service that provides personal, corporate and subject-based identities (writers, authors, characters, corporations, horses, ships, etc.) based on information in WorldCat. Terminology Services: A suite of thesauri and controlled vocabularies provided by OCLC Research as an experimental research service with no service ...

8. digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu › cgi › viewcontentUsing WorldCat Identities

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   WorldCat Identities beta was released in 2007. Mining data from the authority records available in WorldCat, WorldCat Identities can be used to access an “identity web page” for authors, characters from books or films, ships, corporate entities, etc. Each entity can have a personal identity, a controlled personal identity, a corporate ...