[LM_NET] Worldcat

["B. Waters" <billlibrary@YAHOO.COM>]

"How many out there have been using Worldcat?"  Using it how and for what?
I LOVE worldcat...I am a school librarian for 650 students, prk-12, 4 libraries.
I use worldcat (www.worldcat.org) to look up books/dvds/TEXTBOOKS when I can't
find them anywhere else and I need subjects or synopsis.  I cut and past MARC lines 
as needed, especially Summary/Abstract under "details" into my FOllett cataloging.  
As a register user (no fees) I can also submit summary/abstracts for items which 
are 
missing them.
  By cutting and pasting, I am creating an "original" marc in my local Follett 
database.  My 
mistakes will stay my own.
  I have also shown the site to school research classes.  They
can look up any topic, put in their zip code, and see if a local library has the
item.  They can cut & paste the info in an email to me & I can request through 
Illinois Firstsearch.  http://www.firstsearch.org/  This is a fee based service 
our regional library system has connected us up to.  (Alliance Library system, IL)
  As for "various schemes MARC - Dublin Core, etc" I had to look that one up!
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin_Core  YES WIKIPEDIA...so shoot me, it's fast 
! 
  The "Dublin" in the name refers to Dublin, Ohio, U.S., where the work originated 
from an invitational workshop hosted in 1995 by OCLC, a library consortium that is 
based there. The "Core" refers to the fact that the metadata element set is a basic 
but expandable "core" list.
  The semantics of Dublin Core were established and are maintained by an 
international, cross-disciplinary group of professionals from librarianship, 
computer science, text encoding, the museum community, and other related fields of 
scholarship and practice.
The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) is an organization providing an open 
forum for the development of interoperable online metadata standards that support a 
broad range of purposes and business models. DCMI's activities include 
consensus-driven working groups, global conferences and workshops, standards 
liaison, and educational efforts to promote widespread acceptance of metadata 
standards and practices.
Levels of the standard
The Dublin Core standard includes two levels: Simple and Qualified. Simple Dublin 
Core comprises fifteen elements; Qualified Dublin Core includes three additional 
elements (Audience, Provenance and RightsHolder), as well as a group of element 
refinements (also called qualifiers) that refine the semantics of the elements in 
ways that may be useful in resource discovery.
  Simple Dublin Core
The Simple Dublin Core Metadata Element Set (DCMES) consists of 15 metadata 
elements:
  Title 
Creator 
Subject 
Description 
Publisher 
Contributor 
Date 
Type 
Format 
Identifier 
Source 
Language 
Relation 
Coverage 
Rights 
Each Dublin Core element is optional and may be repeated. The DCMI has established 
standard ways to refine elements and encourage the use of encoding and vocabulary 
schemes. There is no prescribed order in Dublin Core for presenting or using the 
elements.
  Full information on element definitions and term relationships can be found in 
the Dublin Core Metadata Registry [1].
  I was REALLY surprised there were not more "hits" on this subject.
  B. Waters
Western CUSD12 
Barry, IL
billlibrary@yahoo.com

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