WorldCat Registry
Sue Dentinger
sdentinger at LIBRARY.WISC.EDU
Fri Feb 14 13:28:27 EST 2014
Besides the campus IP address range and OpenURL resolver url, the WorldCat
Registry also lets each campus identify an image they want to use to represent
their OpenURL registry. PrimateLit relies on this to display that image within
citation results. If no image is supplied, PrimateLit designates a generic one
to use.
--Sue Dentinger
On 2/14/2014 10:13 AM, Ken Varnum wrote:
> 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".
>
>
> --
> Ken Varnum | Web Systems Manager | MLibrary - University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
> varnum at umich.edu <mailto:varnum at umich.edu> | @varnum |
> http://www.lib.umich.edu/users/varnum | 734-615-3287
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 10:58 AM, Aaron Tay <aarontay at gmail.com
> <mailto: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
>
> On Feb 14, 2014, at 11:22 PM, Andrew Welch <andrew.welch at drake.edu
> <mailto:andrew.welch at drake.edu>> wrote:
>
>> 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).
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>> ________________________________
>>
>> Andrew Welch, MLIS
>>
>> Librarian for Discovery Services & Technology
>>
>> Cowles Library | Drake University
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>> *From:*Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU]
>> *On Behalf Of *Ken Varnum
>> *Sent:* Friday, February 14, 2014 8:58 AM
>> *To:* WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU <mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU>
>> *Subject:* Re: [WEB4LIB] WorldCat Registry
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Ken Varnum | Web Systems Manager | MLibrary - University of Michigan -
>> Ann Arbor
>>
>> varnum at umich.edu <mailto:varnum at umich.edu> | @varnum |
>> http://www.lib.umich.edu/users/varnum | 734-615-3287 <tel:734-615-3287>
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 7:29 PM, Peter Murray <peter.murray at lyrasis.org
>> <mailto: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
>> <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?
>>
>> --
>> Peter Murray
>> Assistant Director, Technology Services Development
>> LYRASIS
>> Peter.Murray at lyrasis.org <mailto:Peter.Murray at lyrasis.org>
>> +1 678-235-2955 <tel:%2B1%20678-235-2955>
>> 800.999.8558 x2955 <tel:800.999.8558%20x2955>
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Library Technology Group
Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison Libraries
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