OCLC now offers Metadata Services for Publishers, a new service that takes publishers’ ONIX title metadata, enriches it using WorldCat mining and mapping techniques, and delivers the enhanced ONIX metadata back to the publishers for use in their systems. The publishers’ enhanced metadata is then made available early in the data creation process to libraries for use in selection, acquisition and technical services workflows. Information seekers also benefit from Web discovery of this metadata via WorldCat.org…
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OCLC enrichment of title metadata saves publishers time and resources by streamlining internal workflows, and reducing in-house intellectual work and manipulation of title metadata. OCLC also provides validation, authentication and standardization of publisher data for use by various partners (vendors, aggregators, booksellers) to increase the marketability of publisher ONIX title metadata throughout the publisher supply chain.
The metadata services pilot followed release of the 2007 “Report on the Future of Bibliographic Control” by the Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control, formed by the Library of Congress to address changes in how libraries must do their work in the digital information era. The ability to leverage upstream publisher data effectively was central to the Working Group’s recommendations.
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