CORC: a system for gateway creation

Abstract

CORC is an OCLC project that is developing tools and systems to enable libraries to provide enhanced access to Internet resources. By adapting and extending library techniques and procedures, we are developing a self‐supporting system capable of describing a large and useful subset of the Web. CORC is more a system for hosting and supporting subject gateways than a gateway itself and relies on large‐scale cooperation among libraries to maintain a centralized database. By supporting emerging metadata standards such as Dublin Core and other standards such as Unicode and RDF, CORC broadens the range of libraries and librarians able to participate. Current plans are for OCLC as a full service in July 2000.

Citation

Hickey, T.B. (2000), "CORC: a system for gateway creation", Online Information Review, Vol. 24 No. 1, pp. 49-56. https://doi.org/10.1108/14684520010371549