OCLC, Inc.

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OCLC, Inc. was founded on July 5, 1967.[1][2][3][4] It is a 501(c)(3) organization.[5][6]

Its headquarters are in Dublin.[7][6] Its industry includes libraries, archives, museums and other cultural activities, library and archives activities, information technology, and library administration.

OCLC, Inc.

Summary

OCLC, Inc. is a cooperative[1]. OCLC, Inc. draws 184 Wikipedia views per month (cooperative category, ranking #3 of 29).[2]

Key Facts

  • OCLC, Inc.'s field of work was library cooperation[3].
  • OCLC, Inc. was a member of ORCID, Inc.[4].
  • OCLC, Inc. was a member of Digital Library Federation[5].
  • OCLC, Inc. was a member of IIIF Consortium[6].
  • OCLC, Inc. was a member of World Wide Web Consortium[7].
  • OCLC, Inc. was a member of Confederation of Open Access Repositories[8].
  • OCLC, Inc. was a member of Association for Rural & Small Libraries[9].
  • OCLC, Inc. is in the country of United States[10].
  • OCLC, Inc.'s image is recorded as Kilgour Building, OCLC, Dublin, OH.jpg[11].
  • OCLC, Inc.'s instance of is recorded as cooperative[12].
  • OCLC, Inc.'s instance of is recorded as library[13].
  • OCLC, Inc.'s instance of is recorded as nonprofit organization[14].
  • OCLC, Inc.'s founder is recorded as Fred Kilgour[15].
  • OCLC, Inc.'s logo image is recorded as OCLC logo.svg[16].
  • OCLC, Inc.'s headquarters location is recorded as Dublin[17].
  • OCLC, Inc.'s ISNI is recorded as 0000000114821326[18].
  • OCLC, Inc.'s ISNI is recorded as 0000000114823954[19].
  • OCLC, Inc.'s VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 145425848[20].
  • OCLC, Inc.'s GND ID is recorded as 1046905-9[21].
  • OCLC, Inc.'s GND ID is recorded as 1090452497[22].
  • OCLC, Inc.'s Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as n78015294[23].
  • OCLC, Inc.'s Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 12081223j[24].
  • OCLC, Inc.'s IdRef ID is recorded as 029119723[25].
  • OCLC, Inc.'s NACSIS-CAT author ID is recorded as DA00183669[26].
  • OCLC, Inc.'s postal code is recorded as S1 4LW[27].

Body

Founding

OCLC, Inc.'s founder is recorded as Fred Kilgour[15]. Recorded inception include +1967-07-05T00:00:00Z[28] and +1967-07-06T00:00:00Z[29].

Operations

OCLC, Inc.'s headquarters location is recorded as Dublin[17].

Industry

Industries include libraries, archives, museums and other cultural activities[30], library and archives activities[31], information technology[32], and library administration[33]. OCLC, Inc.'s field of work was library cooperation[3].

Why It Matters

OCLC, Inc. draws 184 Wikipedia views per month (cooperative category, ranking #3 of 29).[2] OCLC, Inc. has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[34] OCLC, Inc. is known by 49 alternative names across languages and contexts.[35]

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  2. [11] . wikidata.org.
  3. [12] . wikidata.org.
  4. [13] . wikidata.org.
  5. [14] . Nonprofit Explorer. Retrieved . projects.propublica.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [3] . wikidata.org.
  7. [15] . wikidata.org.
  8. [16] . wikidata.org.
  9. [17] . Q12013. Retrieved . charitynavigator.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [18] . wikidata.org.
  11. [19] . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [20] . International Standard Name Identifier. Retrieved . viaf.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [21] . wikidata.org.
  14. [22] . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [23] . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [24] . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [25] . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [26] . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [27] . wikidata.org.
  20. [30] . wikidata.org.
  21. [31] . wikidata.org.
  22. [32] . wikidata.org.
  23. [33] . wikidata.org.
  24. [4] . ORCID iD. Retrieved . orcid.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [5] . clir.org. clir.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  26. [6] . iiif.io. Retrieved . iiif.io. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  27. [7] . w3.org. Retrieved . w3.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  28. [8] . wikidata.org.
  29. [9] . wikidata.org.
  30. [28] . Thomson Reuters Open Perm ID. Retrieved . bloomberg.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  31. [29] . OpenCorporates. Retrieved . bloomberg.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [34] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [35] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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