Global library cooperative Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC), US, has announced that it is conducting a pilot project to explore the viability and efficiency of capturing metadata from publishers and vendors upstream. Further, it plans to enhance that metadata in WorldCat, an online resource for finding library materials. The move is expected to provide added value to libraries and publishers by enhancing and delivering data that can work in multiple contexts and systems.
The pilot, which will begin in January 2008, involves libraries and the publisher supply chain. Public and academic libraries will be represented in the pilot along with a variety of publishers and vendors. OCLC will announce participants as the project gets under way.
The next generation cataloging and metadata service pilot follows the release of a 'Report on the Future of Bibliographic Control' by the Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control. The report was put forth by the Library of Congress to address changes in how libraries must do their work in the digital information era. The ability to leverage upstream publisher data effectively is central to the Working Group's recommendations.
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