OCLC Co-operative Online Resource Catalog (CORC)

Citation

(2000), "OCLC Co-operative Online Resource Catalog (CORC)", Interlending & Document Supply, Vol. 28 No. 4. https://doi.org/10.1108/ilds.2000.12228dab.014

OCLC Co-operative Online Resource Catalog (CORC)

OCLC Co-operative Online Resource Catalog (CORC)

Keywords OCLC, Library services, Online retrieval, Research

The OCLC Co-operative Online Resource Catalog (CORC) brings together librarianship, technology, and co-operation by managing Web information more efficiently. CORC offers access to a large, growing database of high-quality, library-selected local and Web-based electronic resources. Using CORC, library managers can select electronic resources and collect only the information that is valuable to their users. With CORC, one can:

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  harvest and format basic information about Web resources (automating the creation of metadata), thus reducing typing and cut-and-paste operations;

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  apply authority control to electronic resources by easily accessing and linking records to Library of Congress authority files;

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  streamline the creation of your pathfinder pages and automate the maintenance of single- or multi-library pathfinders. (pathfinders are organised lists of Web sites also referred to as portal pages);

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  use advancing new standards (e.g. Dublin Core, XML, RDF), add value to established standards (e.g. MARC, DDC), and co-operatively develop best practices for managing library access to Web resources.

More than 450 libraries worldwide have contributed to CORC's development throughout the past year and have catalogued their electronic resources using CORC. A complete participant list is at the CORC Web site http://purl.oclc.org/corc At Cornell University, librarians in collection development, cataloguing, and public services, use CORC to streamline workflows for building Web holdings. Selectors identify and draft Dublin Core records, reference librarians create pathfinders, and cataloguers convert Dublin Core records to MARC format for loading into the Cornell catalogue.

CORC is a fee-based service with the same transaction-based pricing as the OCLC Cataloguing service. Fixed-fee subscribers to the OCLC cataloguing system can use CORC at no additional cost for the coming year (this activity will then be used to calculate future fixed-fee prices).

CORC can be seen by visiting the CORC Practice Area at http://purl.oclc.org/corc/Practice

Source: Russ Hunt, OCLC Europe, The Middle East and Africa