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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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   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 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.

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   What is WorldCat Identities (Wi)?

   • 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.

   Exploring WorldCat identities as an altmetric information ... - Springer

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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.

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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

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   • Launched: January 21, 1998; 25 years ago
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4. www.oclc.org › areas › data-scienceWorldCat Identities - OCLC

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   Titles listed are linked to WorldCat.org, and in many popular WorldCat Identities pages, links to the corresponding Wikipedia (English language) article are provided. In WorldCat.org displays, the "Find more information about:" feature provides links to WorldCat Identities pages for the named persons, organizations and fictitious characters ...

5. hangingtogether.org › libraries-think-they-areLibraries think they are notable: Using WorldCat holdings ...

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   Sep 9, 2020 · WorldCat Identities. WorldCat Identities is an experimental project that provides library holdings data for personal, corporate, or subject-based identities. While it is not the only source of such data, it is especially useful for contributing to gap projects for three reasons.

6. help.oclc.org › Metadata_Services › WorldCatAbout WorldCat Entities - OCLC Support

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   Feb 29, 2024 · Overview. 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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   Jan 3, 2021 · Article. Exploring WorldCat identities as an altmetric information source: a library catalog analysis experiment in the field of Scientometrics. Published: 03 January 2021. Volume 126 , pages 1725–1743, ( 2021 ) Cite this article. Download PDF. Daniel Torres-Salinas, Wenceslao Arroyo-Machado & Mike Thelwall. 783 Accesses. 4 Citations. 14 Altmetric.