WorldCat Identities (identifier)
WorldCat katalogi ne na ƙungiya wanda ke ɗaukar tarin ɗakunan karatu na 15,600 a cikin ƙasashe 107  waɗanda ke shiga cikin haɗin gwiwa na OCLC na duniya. OCLC, Inc. ne ke sarrafa shi  The biyan kudin shiga memba dakunan karatu tare tsare WorldCat ta database, a duniya, most bibliographic database .  Bayanai sun hada da sauran hanyoyin samun bayanai baya ga tarin dakin karatu na membobi.  OCLC ta samar da WorldCat kanta kyauta ga ɗakunan karatu, amma kundin shine tushe don sauran ayyukan sabis na OCLC (kamar rarraba albarkatu da kulawar tarawa). WorldCat masu amfani da laburare suna amfani dashi don adanawa da bincike da kuma ga jama'a.

Tarihi 
An kafa OCLC a shekarar 1967 karkashin jagorancin Fred Kilgour .  A waccan shekarar, OCLC ta fara haɓaka fasahar kundin ƙungiya wanda daga baya zata rikide zuwa WorldCat; an kara bayanan kasida na farko a shekarar 1971.

2003 
A shekarar 2003, OCLC ta fara shirin gwaji na "Open WorldCat", ta hanyar yin takaitattun bayanai daga wani rukuni na WorldCat da ake samu don hadin gwiwar shafukan yanar gizo da masu sayar da litattafai, don kara samun damar shiga cikin tarin dakunan karatun mambobin membobinsu.

2005 
A cikin watan Oktoban shekara ta 2005, ma'aikatan fasaha na OCLC sun fara aikin wiki, WikiD, yana ba masu karatu damar ƙara sharhi da kuma tsarin filin da ke da alaƙa da kowane rikodin WorldCat.  Daga baya an dakatar da WikiD, kodayake daga baya WorldCat ta haɗa abubuwan da aka samar da masu amfani ta wasu hanyoyin.

2006 
A cikin 2006, ya zama mai yiwuwa ga kowa ya bincika WorldCat kai tsaye a buɗewar gidan yanar gizon ta,  ba wai kawai ta hanyar yin amfani da tsarin ba da izini na farko ba inda aka samo shi a yanar gizo don yin rajistar ɗakunan karatu sama da shekaru goma da suka gabata.  Zaɓuɓɓuka don ƙarin binciken bincike na WorldCat sun kasance akwai ta hanyar keɓaɓɓiyar hanyar bincike ta farko. 

A shekara ta 2007, WorldCat Identities sun fara samar da shafuka don "ainihi" miliyan 20, waɗanda metadata ne game da sunaye - galibi marubuta da mutanen da suke taken taken da aka buga. 

A cikin 2017, OCLC's WorldCat Search API an haɗa shi cikin kayan aikin ƙira na VisualEditor na Wikipedia, yana bawa editocin Wikipedia damar kawo tushe daga WorldCat cikin sauƙi.   Farawa daga 2017, OCLC da Taskar Intanet sun yi aiki tare don yin adana bayanan Taskar Intanet na littattafan lambobi a cikin WorldCat.Ya zuwa watan Yulin 2020, WorldCat ta ƙunshi kusan bayanan kundin tarihi na miliyan 500 a cikin harsuna 483, wakiltar sama da biliyan 3 na kayan ɗakunan karatu na zahiri da dijital,  da kuma bayanan WorldCat na mutane (wanda aka hako daga WorldCat) sun haɗa da mutane sama da miliyan 100. 

Ana ba da gudummawar ɗakunan karatu ga WorldCat ta hanyar komputa na Connexion, wanda aka gabatar a cikin 2001; wacce ta gabace ta, Fasfo din OCLC, an daina amfani da ita a watan Mayun 2005.

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