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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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  2. 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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  3. 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.

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  5. 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.

  6. 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 ...

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  7. entities.oclc.org › worldcat › entityWorldCat Entities

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  8. 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; Research Libraries UK

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