Orion Cinema Network [WorldCat Identities]

The OCLC Research WorldCat Identities project is ending. The work provided valuable insight into how to mine bibliographic
data for insight into the People and Organizations that create and serve as subjects
library materials. The findings demonstrated the power of data mining over the world’s largest set of bibliographic metadata
and highlighted the value of collaborative collective cataloging. The WorldCat Identities data
has positively impacted OCLC’s work to build the WorldCat Entities application and the 150 million Person and Work descriptions
accessible through it. This work will continue to build our entity ecosystem to support the
future knowledge work of librarians.

The WorldCat Identities web application will be retired and shut down in the coming months and the data is no longer being
updated. The most recent version of the data is from
July of 2022. As OCLC continues to build out the WorldCat Entities ecosystem, please use it as a source for persistent Person
identifiers. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity