OpenWorldCat to Get Amazon-style Features?

AshtabulaGuy writes “OCLC just announced a new OpenWorldCat pilot sub-project through FIRSTSEARCH-L. The pilot will involve allowing users to contribute “details” (which would include tables of contents that would otherwise be encoded using “505” formatted content tags in MARC21 by ctalogers) and “reviews” by users in the style of Amazon.com. The press release also noted that these features that are presently in testing may eventually make their way into the subscription-based WorldCat database.

It is uncertain whether or not this will run into quality control issues like Wikipedia has had mentioned recently, though.”

October 12, 2005 by Blake Uncategorized 1