O'Reilly Radar notes WorldCat Identities

Tim O'Reilly, in his Radar blog, has written about OCLC's WorldCat Identities.

A lot of people think that there's a single big identity play out there, and focus on technology solutions, but it seems to me that in true bottom-up internet style, we may eventually build our online identities out of a mashup of all the tracks we already leave in cyberspace. ... One more small step in this direction was released by the OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) last week. It's a prototype of an author identity system that shows holdings of books by any author in all of the libraries tracked by OCLC in its worldcat system.

Nice to see that the library world occasionally catches some attention outside our own community.

Posted by Tom on February 20, 2007