[WEB4LIB] RE: Open Worldcat

Karen Coyle kcoyle at kcoyle.net
Wed Dec 8 19:59:12 EST 2004


On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 12:04, Teets,Mike wrote:

> 
> As far as the metadata, holdings and access: The metadata exposed to the
> search engines points back into OCLC systems with the first click.

Since you mentioned "exposure".... can you say whether you are using the
OAI-PMH protocols and metadata to "expose" the OCLC records to Yahoo and
Google? And can you say what metadata is being delivered to them?
Inquiring minds....

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