OCLC & our IT office are still arguing, through me, over who fucked up & why we can’t get EZProzy to play nice with the campus SSO. And now the #OCLC tech is on vacation through 9/5, which is after the semester starts. I’ve called in the big guns (Steve, our former associate dean for library technology). #LibraryLife #LibrarySystems

@PLOS
Update. #WorldCat (#OCLC) has removed the #trademark symbol from its image of the #OpenAccess icon.

See the same set of WorldCat records to which I linked in my toot last month:
https://www.worldcat.org/search?oclcNum=1391215977&slug=1391215977&q=kw%3A%22open+access%22&datePublished=2022-2023&openAccess=true

Royal Library of Belgium (#KBR) joins #OCLC, adds records to #WorldCat to increase visibility of collection

https://www.oclc.org/en/news/releases/2023/20230627-royal-library-belgium-joins-oclc.html

There is an API, but it seems only available to libraries that subscribe to their cataloging service they provide. #worldcat #oclc https://www.oclc.org/developer/api/oclc-apis/worldcat-search-api.en.html

OCLC WorldCat Entities ID
Maher Asaad Baker
#WorldCat #OCLC

https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39Qd9p8YRj8C9bwtFcf48tTWj

HOW CAN A COMPANY RUN ONE OF THE BIGGEST UNION CATALOGS ON THE PLANET AND CANNOT GENERATE A BILLING STATEMENT THAT MAKES ANY GODDAMN SENSE? #librarylife #oclc

12 years ago, #OCLC Research conducted a study on the most common fields in #WorldCat. Everything has a title, of course, but then the number of fields that library records have in common drops off quickly. https://dltj.org/article/issue-96-metadata#most-important 2/4

Last, we look back 12 years to a project that could have cheaply and efficiently made a website for every library. But the #OCLC #WorldShare for Small #Libraries never took off. https://dltj.org/article/issue-95-chatgpt-cryptomining-wssl#wssl 5/5

Reread this 2014 #OCLC report today on #Library #Collections and #CollectionDevelopment:
"Collection Directions: Some Reflections on the Future of Library Collections and Collecting" https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED564803
most of the analysis and views still hold amazingly well in 2023

So, just to clarify on Worldcat's forwarding all search queries and user IP information to Facebook and Google:

I will be solving this ticket. Our legal department will be handling this matter from here on out.

That is, Worldcat haven't addressed the issue. They've "solved" the ticket (#640419).

So far as I'm concerned, Worldcat is no longer fit for use.

Keep in mind that Worldcat is the sole catalogue access option for a huge number of public, private, and academic libraries.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1570183006689673222.html

@RenkeSiems

#worldcat #oclc #surveillance #SurveillanceCapitalism #privacy #libraries #academia #Monopoly

"Clarivate continues to deny OCLC’s allegations of wrong-doing and maintains that the issue lay between #OCLC and its customers, who sought to co-create an efficient community platform for sharing of bibliographic records. #Clarivate will not develop a record exchange system of MARC records that include records which OCLC has claimed are subject to its policy and contractual limitations. Clarivate will bear its own fees and costs." 2/2

#Clarivate and #OCLC Settle Lawsuit. From Clarivate's pespective: https://clarivate.com/news/clarivate-and-oclc-settle-lawsuit/ 1/2

So far, the biggest change I've noticed with Worldcat's site "upgrade" is ... that every last fucking query I try gets Cloudflared --- apparently I'm too botlike.

@bencomp

#OCLC #WorldCat

@RenkeSiems NB, OCLC's response to my submitted issue over forwarding search details, results, and searcher's IP and ID derails to Facebook & Google on Worldcat searches:

I am forwarding your inquiry to our Legal Team for review.

Ticket is #640419.

#oclc #worldcat #SurveillanceCapitalism #Surveillance #libraries

Vol de #métadonnées : #OCLC fait plier #Clarivate et #ProQuest

La coopérative mondiale de #bibliothèques sans but lucratif OCLC se réjouit d'une résolution du litige qui l'opposait à Clarivate et à plusieurs filiales de l'acteur privé, dont ProQuest. La première accusait le second d'un siphonnage des métadonnées de #WorldCat , base de données bibliographiques mondiale en accès libre, pour les revendre ensuite dans un service payant et à but lucratif.

https://actualitte.com/article/108611/international/vol-de-metadonnees-oclc-fait-plier-clarivate-et-proquest

https://librarytechnology.org/pr/27934/-oclc-and-clarivate-settle-lawsuit
#OCLC
#Clarivate
#OCLCvsClarivate

For others reporting this issue to OCLC, the issue number is #640419.

#Worldcat #OCLC #privacy #SurveillanceCapitalism

I make reasonably frequent use (several times/week) of Worldcat. Usually invoked via DuckDuckGo's "!worldcat" bang search, most often on an Android tablet.

Since Worldcat's recent site revision, that's resulted in frequent issues with pages failing to load and/or bot-detection messages which fail to clear or resolve, such that I abandon my search attempt.

The net effect is that Worldcat is far less useful to me than prior to the site revision.

Please tune any anti-bot features such that human users are not affected.

I'll often browse with both Javascript and cookies disabled and much prefer being able to do so for privacy and security reasons. As best as I can tell, Worldcat fails to function with either of these disabled. This also means that convenient tools I've created such as a command-line based Worldcat search using a console-mode Web browser utterly fail to function. This is a grave concern.

Please ensure basic search functionality of Worldcat without reliance on javascript or cookies.

I use a fairly atypical browser. Whether or not this tends to trigger bot detection I'm not sure, but I'll mention it. I'm not mentioning which browser, on the principle that Worldcat should be browser-agnostic. Please don't discriminate based on reasonably plausible user-agents.

Please use criteria other than user-agent in anti-abuse / anti-DOS features.

I'm utterly frustrated by the site changes, and am actively seeking out alternative library / book search options.

(A copy of an email support request sent to Worldcat.)

#oclc #worldcat #catalogs #libraries

So far, the biggest change I've noticed with Worldcat's site "upgade" is ... that every last fucking query I try gets Cloudflared --- apparently I'm too botlike.

@bencomp

#OCLC #WorldCat

@bencomp The comment is a reply within a thread on a bug I'd opened in 2020 about broken linked-data responses from Worldcat.

Otherwise, I'm as much in the dark as you are.

For some more information, Worldcat / OCLC are apparently now focused on "Worldcat Entities":

Use the search box on entities.oclc.org to find and view WorldCat Entities for persons and works. Browse through different languages and explore the way each entity links to other external vocabularies and authority files for further context.

https://www.oclc.org/en/worldcat/oclc-and-linked-data/worldcat-entities.html

This sounds to me like an attempt to reject an open and common standard and substitute a closed, proprietary, and limited-function one.

#Worldcat #LinkedData #Libraries #Librarians #Catalogues #OCLC #WorldcatEntities