• Liked “RT @ORCID_Org: Please help us move ORCID forward by filling out this survey (by Oct 28):…” http://ff.im/-rRKsE #
• habib: RT @prototypo: okkam.org is also designed to act as bridge across established IDs such as DOI, ORCID, PURL… http://ff.im/-rUBq6 #

Science Online London 2009: Author identity – Creating a new kind of reputation online from Joanna Wombat on Vimeo.

My slides are posted here.

• 15 Trends to Watch in 2008 – 1/7/2008 3:00:00 AM – Publishers Weekly

  via AL Direct – “Christmas 2008 will be the first one in which sales of customized books, enabled by the Internet and print-on-demand, will become substantial. Make-your-own books have been creeping into public consciousness for a couple of years: …auth

  (tags: future publishing trends lulu publishersweekly PW)

• Walt at Random » Blog Archive » Academic Library Blogs: 231 Examples

  Walt’s new book. Published through Lulu.

  (tags: librarians blogging academiclibraries blogs academiclibrary20 academiclibrary2.0)

• ALA | proposals

  Reminder to self: Send something in.

  (tags: todo)

• Vendor-prompted cataloging [OCLC - Partner programs for publishers and material vendors]

  “Publishers and material vendors: Partner with OCLC and offer your customers a unique value-added service that will get you noticed. Our four vendor-prompted cataloging programs (below) enable your customers to obtain corresponding WorldCat bibliographic

  (tags: worldcat openworldcat promptcat cataloging)

• About [OCLC - PromptCat]

  “PromptCat provides cataloging records for new materials that can be ready to shelve the moment you receive them. OCLC works with leading library partners to automate this process. Best of all, your holdings are added to WorldCat, the bibliographic databa

  (tags: world)

• Amazon is new OCLC PromptCat participant [OCLC]

  “DUBLIN, Ohio, USA, 14 September 2006—Amazon.com is now an OCLC PromptCat participant, making it possible for libraries to receive OCLC MARC records along with the materials they get from the online vendor including books, music, DVDs and more.”

  (tags: worldcat)

• PromptCat [OCLC - Cataloging and Metadata]

  “Participating partners send OCLC electronic lists that identify the books, videos and other materials you’ve ordered. PromptCat then matches the items to bibliographic records in WorldCat, adds local data to records, sets holdings in WorldCat and provide

  (tags: worldcat)

• Vendor record contribution [OCLC - Partner programs for publishers and material vendors]

  “Look good to librarians: Get bibliographic records for your materials into WorldCat as early as possible in the publishing cycle. When you put descriptive metadata directly into WorldCat—even months before titles are released—you’re making it much ea

  (tags: worldcat)

• Cataloging partners program [OCLC - Cataloging and Metadata]

  “Look good to librarians: Get bibliographic records for your materials into WorldCat as early as possible in the publishing cycle. When you put descriptive metadata directly into WorldCat—even months before titles are released—you’re making it much ea

  (tags: Worldcat)

• Technical information [OCLC - Vendor-prompted cataloging]

  (tags: Worldcat)

• Partners list [OCLC - Cataloging partners program]

  (tags: Worldcat)

• Technical information [OCLC - Vendor record contribution]

  (tags: worldcat)

• Other ways you can use WorldCat [WorldCat.org]

  (tags: worldcat googlebooks)

• Loose Cannon Librarian » printed with permission…

  About Danbury and LibraryThing for Libraries, from the post – “I wrote a sidebar to John Blyberg’s must-read article on open APIs (go, now, read it)… I asked for and received permission to post the unedited version here:”

  (tags: librarything danbury opacs OPAC tagging Folksonomies library2.0)

• Always Pushing Information – 7/15/2007 – netConnect

  “John Blyberg advocates for open APIs between libraries and vendors to speed innovation”

  (tags: blyberg OPAC bibliocommons ils librarything apis)

• WorldCat Local pilot announcement [OCLC]

  Saving some older links.

  (tags: worldcatlocal Worldcat oclc OPAC)

• LibraryThing for Libraries

  (tags: library2.0 librarything OPAC folksonomy)

• The Implications of OpenID » SlideShare

  (tags: openid presentation)

• Implementing OpenID » SlideShare

  (tags: openid presentation)

• A Recipe for OpenID-Enabling Your Site

  From the site “This is a step-by-step tutorial guide for implementing OpenID consumer-side support with a web site that already has users with accounts.”

  (tags: openid identity tutorial)

• » The case for OpenID | Digital ID World | ZDNet.com

  (tags: openid identity identity20)

The new WorldCat.org is a significant step forward. I am especially impressed with the efficient permanent urls (isbn/isbnnumber and oclc/oclcnumber) and the faceted browsing offered on the left of the results screen. Additionally, I like the breadcrumb trail that accompanies the faceted browsing. I am also impressed with the search speed and the simplicity of the interface. They have also describe a number of ways to integrate WorldCat into one’s browsing habits and websites. I look forward to seeing results appearing in search engine results. Overall, it seems like a significant step forward, but I need to look at it more carefully later.

He also points to and recent article he has written on Ranganathan’s Colon Classification system as the origin of metatagging. More proof librarians have historically been on the cutting edge.