{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BlogPosting","@id":"https:\/\/dataliberate.com\/2014\/04\/28\/worldcat-works-197-million-nuggets-of-linked-data\/#BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/dataliberate.com\/2014\/04\/28\/worldcat-works-197-million-nuggets-of-linked-data\/","headline":"WorldCat Works \u2013 197 Million Nuggets of Linked Data","name":"WorldCat Works \u2013 197 Million Nuggets of Linked Data","description":"They\u2019re released! A couple of months back I spoke about the preview release of Works data from WorldCat.org.\u00a0 Today OCLC published a press release announcing the official release of 197 million descriptions of bibliographic Works. A Work is a high-level description of a resource, containing information such as author, name, descriptions, subjects etc., common to all editions of the work.\u00a0 The description format is based upon some of the properties defined by the CreativeWork type from the Schema.org vocabulary.\u00a0 In the case of a WorldCat Work description, it also contains [Linked Data] links to individual, OCLC numbered, editions already shared <span class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dataliberate.com\/2014\/04\/28\/worldcat-works-197-million-nuggets-of-linked-data\/\">...<\/a><\/span>","datePublished":"2014-04-28","dateModified":"2014-04-28","author":{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/dataliberate.com\/author\/richard-wallis\/#Person","name":"Richard Wallis","url":"https:\/\/dataliberate.com\/author\/richard-wallis\/","identifier":1,"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/dfc30377fdeb159bbd38ccbec398d54c?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/dfc30377fdeb159bbd38ccbec398d54c?s=96&d=mm&r=g","height":96,"width":96}},"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Data Liberate","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/dev.dataliberate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Data_Liberate_Logo-200.png","url":"https:\/\/dev.dataliberate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Data_Liberate_Logo-200.png","width":600,"height":60}},"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/dataliberate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/worldcat1.png","url":"https:\/\/dataliberate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/worldcat1.png","height":180,"width":164},"url":"https:\/\/dataliberate.com\/2014\/04\/28\/worldcat-works-197-million-nuggets-of-linked-data\/","commentCount":"43","about":["Data Publishing","Linked Data","OCLC","Open Data","schema.org","Semantic Web","Web","WorldCat"],"wordCount":549,"keywords":["Linked Data","Open Data","Works","WorldCat"]}