{"id":2578,"date":"2008-11-19T14:46:55","date_gmt":"2008-11-19T18:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/?p=2578"},"modified":"2008-11-19T14:46:55","modified_gmt":"2008-11-19T18:46:55","slug":"a-useful-amplification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/19\/a-useful-amplification.html","title":{"rendered":"A Useful Amplification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org\/2008\/a-useful-amplification-of-records-that-are-unavoidably-needed-anyway\/\">A Useful Amplification of Records That Are Unavoidably Needed Anyway<\/a><\/strong> is an essay by <a href=\"http:\/\/inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org\/author\/brett\/\">Brett Bonfield<\/a> which, dare I phrase it this way, usefully amplifies several of the major web-based entities which are intertwined with libraries.\u00a0 These include (but aren&#8217;t limited to) OCLC&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/\">WorldCat<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/\">Amazon<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/\">LibraryThing<\/a>.\u00a0 Brett clearly understands libraries, and does a great job detailing the interrelationships between all involved.<\/p>\n<p>Not directly related to the essay, LibraryThing has posted an expansion of their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/common-knowledge-names-relationships.php\">Common Knowledge fields for Authors and Events<\/a>.\u00a0 This is an interesting read, as it addresses in a real-world way the need for authorities and relationships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Useful Amplification of Records That Are Unavoidably Needed Anyway is an essay by Brett Bonfield which, dare I phrase it this way, usefully amplifies several of the major web-based entities which are intertwined with libraries.\u00a0 These include (but aren&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/19\/a-useful-amplification.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2922,2923,2927,2943,2949,2951,2952,2953,2965,2978],"tags":[4088,4087,5358,3878,5363,4201,3386],"class_list":["post-2578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cataloging","category-classification","category-definitions","category-libraries","category-oclc","category-online-databases","category-online-services","category-opac","category-search","category-websearch","tag-amazon","tag-brett-bonfield","tag-libraries","tag-librarything","tag-oclc","tag-web-based-entities","tag-worldcat"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-FA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}