WorldCat Identities for "not people"
WorldCat Identities is one of my favorite features of WorldCat, and I've talked about it here before. One of the things I haven't mentioned is that there are lots of Identities in the service for what I think of as "not people." In some cases, that can be a fictional character, like the Identity for Dracula. But the jump to an "identity" for fictional characters isn't that big... they still have proper, personal names, and I think that's how I tend to think about Identity.
So what kind of Identities are there in addition to people (or vampires) with personal names? Lots. Here's some to get you started (some from current events... some just because they seemed like interesting examples):
- The Statue of Liberty
- The New York Yankees
- Apple Computer, Inc.
- British Petroleum
- The United States Supreme Court
- World Cup Soccer
- Afghanistan
- The Edmund Fitzgerald (ship)
At the bottom of the Identities page, there's a tag-cloud of "Associated Subjects." I've included the one for Afghanistan below:
So after you find a neat Identity for a subject, you can take your quest further in WorldCat.org with related subject searches. So if you're looking for a different way to approach a subject, see if it's got an Identity. Some cool stuff in there.
