WorldCat Registry

[Peter Murray]

Not a vendor or a campus user, but I’ve long thought that the WorldCat institution registry was a hidden gem of OCLC’s public services to the library community.  As far as I can recall the origins, it lists /all/ libraries whether they are members of OCLC or not (using data complied from various national sources).  It seems like a shame that the whole issue of campus IP address maintenance can’t simply be swept up into machine-to-machine API calls by content publishers to the institution registry.

We’ve talked within LYRASIS about using the registry for various projects that ultimately didn’t come to fruition, and I had discussions years ago with folks within OCLC about using the registry for the purpose of simplifying IP address range maintenance, and they seemed quite interested in the use of the registry for that purpose.


Peter

On Feb 12, 2014, at 2:24 PM, Ken Varnum <varnum at UMICH.EDU<mailto:varnum at UMICH.EDU>> wrote:
As the lucky guy who maintains our library's entries in OCLC's WorldCat Registry [http://worldcat.org/registry/institutions], I've assiduously maintained data points like our campus IP addresses over the years. Yet I've not come across a library vendor (database, full-text, etc.) who actually makes use of it to maintain on-campus IP ranges for our institution. It seems a promising and useful tool that has largely gone ignored.

Am I simply not asking the right vendors the right questions? Anyone out there have vendors that use the Registry as the source of campus IP data for access?


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