Who's your favorite WorldCat Identity?
We've just incorporated WorldCat Identities into WorldCat.org navigation proper, rather than having to satellite out to a listing and then find your own way back. You can get to a WorldCat Identities page from the "Find more information about" drop-down in the Details section of a detailed record:
WorldCat Identities is one of those fun things we like to play around with, here at OCLC. It showcases things you don't find many other places--like you can see the most widely held works by a writer, or how one fictional character is related to another one, or get a visual for publication timelines, or audience recommendation levels, or, or, or...there's a lot of good stuff there.
In fact, here's our own Andy Havens talking about WorldCat Identities:
So who's your favorite WorldCat Identity? Tell the world, in your comments. Or tweet it with the tag #wcid
Updated note:The Barack Obama Identities page linked to above does not list the subject headings with him as President. It turns out, WorldCat Identities reflects a writer or a character's bibliographic footprint. Everything on an Identities page is actually pulled from a bibliographic record in WorldCat. So WorldCat needs people to write more items (and have libraries acquire them) about Obama now that he is the POTUS, and the Identities page will update accordingly.
On June 21, 2009 at 12:23 AM paul sutherland said:
I can't find a WorldCat identities search box anywhere
On June 21, 2009 at 3:43 PM Alice Sneary
said:
Hi Paul. Thanks for pointing this out. You can't find a search box because there isn't one. But I can pass along the idea to our development team.
The way to search for an Identity is to use the regular WorldCat.org search box, and select an item by the person you're interested in. In the case of a character, select the person who created the character. I find the author facet to be the quickest way to get me to the right titles. Then once on a specific record, you can scroll down to the "Find more out about this person" section, and click to the Identity you're looking for.