{"id":1876,"date":"2006-10-06T17:15:52","date_gmt":"2006-10-06T22:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.librarysupportstaff.org\/?p=121"},"modified":"2006-10-06T17:15:52","modified_gmt":"2006-10-06T22:15:52","slug":"wiki-worldcat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/06\/wiki-worldcat.html","title":{"rendered":"Wiki WorldCat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In September, OCLC will be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oclc.org\/productworks\/wcwiki.htm\">trying out a Wiki component<\/a> to their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/\">WorldCat<\/a> database.  This is based on their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oclc.org\/research\/projects\/wikid\/\">WikiD<\/a> project that they have been working on for a while.<\/p>\n<p>Those of us familiar with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/\">Amazon<\/a> know the depth that user reviews can add to the standard information available when one is considering purchasing a book; I would expect that similar information within WorldCat will be extremely helpful from a research perspective, as well.  This could make WorldCat a better first step for book searches than most library catalogs.<\/p>\n<p>Something to watch&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(note:\u00a0 I somehow glazed over this entry&#8230; it was already October, and I somehow registered November as the starting month for the WikiD component.\u00a0 They are already accepting user reviews.\u00a0 It is still something to watch, however!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In September, OCLC will be trying out a Wiki component to their WorldCat database. This is based on their WikiD project that they have been working on for a while. Those of us familiar with Amazon know the depth that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/06\/wiki-worldcat.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2943,2951,2965,2977],"tags":[4088],"class_list":["post-1876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libraries","category-online-databases","category-search","category-web-design","tag-amazon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-ug","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}