OCLC Integration Information

MarcEdit’s OCLC integration allows users to work directly against OCLC’s WorldCat database to:

  • Set and unset holdings
  • Create and Update Master Bibliographic records
  • Create, Update, and Delete Local Bibliographic records.

To use the integration option, users need to request that their OCLC Key’s support the following API:

  • Registry API — MarcEdit uses the Registry API to handle token creation and resolve the Registry API and OCLC Symbol as appropriate.  This is new as of July 1, 2018 due to OCLC putting this API behind their permission system.
  • Metadata API — MarcEdit uses the Metadata API to handle editing and creation of holdings and bibliographic records
  • Search API — MarcEdit uses the Search API to search for records in WorldCat.

These three API are required in order for MarcEdit’s OCLC Integration to function correctly.  As of Sept. 1, 2018, the OCLC Integration will now check access to all three of these API prior to “validating” the function.