WorldCat Registry

[Ken Varnum]

Not just the link resolver -- it's also letting the vendor know what IP
addresses are part of a campus, so that the vendor can allow or deny access
to licensed content. And, of course, provide an appropriate OpenURL
resolver link once the user is "in".


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On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 10:58 AM, Aaron Tay <aarontay at gmail.com> wrote:

> So far all the uses mentioned seem to be for identifying the user's
> institution and setting up the right link resolver. Also there was an
> announcement about a linkup with Wikipedia that seemed to me (not sure)to
> be along the same lines for libraries not on worldcat discovery services.
>
> None of them seem to involve directly authenticating users to resources.
> Is this by design?
>
> Regards
> Aaron
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> On Feb 14, 2014, at 11:22 PM, Andrew Welch <andrew.welch at drake.edu> wrote:
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>  Yes, yes and yes. Our IT department added a significant number of IPs
> (in a single range) last February, and we're still struggling with vendors
> not making the change (or making it incorrectly).
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> Andrew
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> *From:* Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU<WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU>]
> *On Behalf Of *Ken Varnum
> *Sent:* Friday, February 14, 2014 8:58 AM
> *To:* WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> *Subject:* Re: [WEB4LIB] WorldCat Registry
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> 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.
>
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>
> So -- do other libraries have the same pain point and need?
>
>
>
> Ken
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> --
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> Ken Varnum | Web Systems Manager | MLibrary - University of Michigan - Ann
> Arbor
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> varnum at umich.edu | @varnum | http://www.lib.umich.edu/users/varnum |
> 734-615-3287
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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.
>
>
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>
>
> Peter
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> 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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>
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> LYRASIS
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