WorldCat Registry

[Ken Varnum]

We're facing the need to communicate a significant change to our on-campus
IP ranges to thousands of vendors. It's not going to be pretty. While I
know this round of changes are going to be manual, I'd love to see vendors
take up the OCLC Registry as their preferred (or even optional) source of
data.

So -- do other libraries have the same pain point and need?

Ken


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On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 7:29 PM, Peter Murray <peter.murray at lyrasis.org>wrote:

>  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> 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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> Peter Murray
> Assistant Director, Technology Services Development
> LYRASIS
> Peter.Murray at lyrasis.org
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