Musical Works on OCLC, or, What if OCLC Were Actually to Become a Catalog?

Web services to link interlibrary software with OCLC WorldShare

Purpose This article describes the use of web services to interconnect the GTBib interlibrary loan program with the OCLC WorldShare platform. Design/methodology/approach We describe the current problem of duplication of procedures in libraries that have added their collections to the OCLC WorldCat catalogue in recent years and are therefore more likely to receive interlibrary loan requests thro...

OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc

This meeting of the Board of Trustees of OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., pursuant to the notice of the Secretary dated May 29, 2007, and in accordance with Article VII, Section I, of the Code of Regulations of OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., convened at 8:30 a.m. local time on June 11, 2007, in the Saxenburgaal Room of the Pulitzer Hotel, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Ms. Wi...

Certification Efforts at Nestor Working Group and cooperation with Certification Efforts at RLG/OCLC to become an international ISO standard

What if Chomsky were right?

The outcome of scientific research depends on how a phenomenon is viewed and how the questions are phrased. This applies also to the nativist view of language acquisition. As a complement to MacWhinney’s discussion of nativism from the viewpoint of cognitive psychology, I would like to devote this commentary to the question of the title from the viewpoint of computational linguistics. Formally,...

What if entropy were dimensionless?

One of entropy’s puzzling aspects is its dimensions of energy/temperature. A review of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics leads to six conclusions: ~1! Entropy’s dimensions are linked to the definition of the Kelvin temperature scale. ~2! Entropy can be defined to be dimensionless when temperature T is defined as an energy ~dubbed tempergy!. ~3! Dimensionless entropy per particle typicall...