Name and Subject Headings

Glenn Patton recently released a statement on several listservs about the publication called "Online Catalogs: What End Users and Librarians Want". Granted this research might be a little dated, the publication is from 2009, but Glenn Patton makes one very interesting remark in his statement. Namely, he states that "library staff who use WorldCat ranked …

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VIAF and Linked Data

Tom Hickey recently posted on a new development with the VIAF. The VIAF or the Virtual International Authority File is an international project to bring together in one place authorized headings from several libraries and institutions around the world. Interestingly enough, VIAF is hosted and implemented by OCLC. This is where the linked data part …