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WorldCat: Experimental WorldCat: Experimental Libraries are incubators of innovation. Students, scholars, inventors, writers and leaders throughout history have turned to libraries for information, assistance and inspiration. In order to help foster that spirit, OCLC explores new and changing technologies that improve information services for libraries and their users. Here you can find some of the experimental projects that we're working on. While some of them may influence OCLC products and services, others are "blue sky" ideas—activities that embrace new and emerging technologies in order to discover ways to better enable data sharing, cooperative services and community growth within the profession. By nature, these experimental projects may or may not evolve into more formal services. They may influence existing products, or may simply provide a fertile ground for learning. Current experiments Fiction Finder Fiction Finder is a works-based prototype that provides access to over 2 million works of fiction described in more than12 million bibliographic records for books, eBooks, audio books, movies and television. You can search by person, place, topic, genre, character, Dewey and more, Try it » Cookbook Finder Cookbook Finder provides access to thousands of cookbooks and other works about food and nutrition described in library records. You can search by person, place, topic (e.g., course, ingredient, method, and more) and browse related works by author and topic ((supplied by the Kindred Works/Recommender API. Try it » Kindred Works Kindred Works is an experimental recommender service that helps you discover books, movies and music similar to a sample work of your choice. The application uses various characteristics of the sample work, such as classification numbers, subject headings, and genre terms, to provide a list of related works found in WorldCat. Try it » Recommendations are also accessible through the WorldCat Recommender application programming interface (API). Try the API » FAST Converter The FAST Converter is a Web interface for the conversion of LCSH headings to FAST headings. Either single headings or small sets of bibliographic records can be converted. Provides a learning tool to help familiarize users with FAST and the differences between FAST and LCSH. Try it » mapFAST A mashup of FAST geographic subjects and Google Maps to allow users to see surrounding locations that are also FAST subjects. The map interface allows for simple selection of the location, with a link to enter this directly as a search into either WorldCat.org or Google Books. Try it » -- mapFINDS Ohio The mapFINDS Ohio iPhone app uses OCLC’s WorldCat Search web service to present digital reproductions of culturally significant photographs, documents, and recordings to you based on their location and search criteria. It also provides you the ability to “like” items of interest, enhancing your later searches and the searches of other users. Learn more » | Download the iPhone app free from iTunes » --- WorldCat Identities Network The ID Network uses the Identities and WorldCat APIs, to allow users to explore the interconnectivity and relationships between WorldCat Identities. Users can easily jump from Identity to Identity selecting the name in the Identity Network Map. An Identity can be a person, a thing (the Titanic ), a fictitious character ( Harry Potter ), or a corporation ( IBM ). Try it » completed experiments Article Exchange - in production A document-sharing site that provides a single, secure location where lending libraries can place requested PDF and TIFF articles and library users can retrieve articles or book chapters obtained for them via interlibrary loan. Article Exchange adds convenience, security and enhanced copyright compliance to online article sharing through interlibrary loan. Try it » -- Other experimental work at OCLC ResearchWorks : OCLC's research laboratory, demonstrating ideas for applying new technologies to organize information, including examples of things you can incorporate into your own systems. OCLC Developer Network : A community of developers collaborating to propose, discuss and test OCLC web services. © 2011-2016 OCLC | Domestic and international trademarks and/or service marks of OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and its affiliates...