Global library cooperative Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC), US, is working with software development and consulting enterprise Index Data, Denmark, to extend the discovery capabilities of WorldCat Local to include all licensed and full-text resources of a library. Index Data specialises in information retrieval and metasearch solutions. The company offers a broad range of digital library services, including content management, metasearching, link resolution and harvesting, as well as gateways, database servers, indexing engines and numerous other customized IR solutions for libraries, museums, archives and their vendors.
WorldCat Local is the service that combines the cooperative power of OCLC member libraries worldwide with the ability to use WorldCat.org as a solution for local discovery and delivery services. WorldCat Local provides a discovery environment that presents localised results most relevant to the library user while at the same time allowing the user to search the entire WorldCat database of more than 100 million records.
OCLC continues to work with database producers to add article-level metadata to WorldCat.org to enrich the search experience and make collections from libraries more visible on the web. Index Data will help OCLC incorporate metasearch into WorldCat Local for searching databases that are not indexed in WorldCat.org.
OCLC recently announced that article-level metadata from H.W. Wilson and MLA will be added to the more than 50 million articles indexed from NLM MEDLINE, the Department of Education's ERIC database, the British Library Inside serials, the GPO Monthly Catalog and the OCLC ArticleFirst database to expand access and discovery of authoritative content through the WorldCat.org platform. The work with Index Data will help to ensure that libraries can provide access to their full collections.
