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Work pages in WorldCat
Diane Vizine-GoetzOCLC Research
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Work pages
Research project
Goal is to create rich descriptions from catalog data
Resulting in a page for every work
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Related projectsFictionFinder
WorldCat Identities
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Users want the catalog to be more like their favorite web sites
ConvenientEasy to useUsefulInterestingFun
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Users want rich content
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What’s in WorldCat?
FRBR Work Set Count
Cover Art 2,365,961Summary/Abstract 6,278,014Table of Contents 4,714,103Total works sets 12,169,454
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A Work Page aggregates data from a FRBR work set
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Work pagesContent
Cover artGenre termsSubjectsFormatsSummaries and TOCsDerived termsClassification numbersEdition informationRelated worksPublication dates / places
ServicesOCLC cover art serviceWorldCat IdentitiesClassifyWorldCat apiGoogle charts & mapsPart-of-speech tagger
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Blade runnerI am legendIn defense of foodFast food nationGirl interruptedThe ways of the righteous
Sample work pages
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Project teamJD ShipengroverRoger ThompsonDiane Vizine-Goetz Harry Wagner
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