You’ve probably been watching the development of WorldCat.Org/Identities. Over at Outgoing, Thom Hickey has several posts announcing and describing the new service.
Over the weekend WorldCat Identities went into production. Personal authors now have a link to their WorldCat Identity page under the Details tab. The links are not hard links, but actually OpenURLs.
I’ve been thinking of incorporating the data into a set of faculty publication pages. Initially, it could be as simple as links to the WorldCat pages:
- Ammerman, Nancy Tatom
- Andrews, Dale P.
- Berthrong, John H.
- Botta, Alejandro F.
- Daneel, Marthinus L.
- Darr, Katheryn Pfisterer
- …
- …
- …
The data stream is xml. with a bit of work to develop an xsl style sheet, one might feed the data directly into a web page…
Tags: Theological Libraries, oclc, worldcat
Investing our resources where they count... | TheoLib
on Nov 20th, 2007
@ 8:21 pm:
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