No, It’s the Network, Stupid

Posted On May 29 2008 by

My friend and colleague Chrystie Hill reminded me the other day that I was wrong about something.  This was no revelation, this happens quite frequently.  In a conversation about OCLC’s various assets, I was going on again about leveraging the vast amounts of data in the WorldCat bibliographic database and all the potential of the WorldCat Registry. Chrystie reminded me, as anyone working in the WebJunction group should, that it is the network of people that matters.  They create the data in WorldCat.  They arethe institutions in the Registry. This truism was made all the more poignant by a really …