[This post is contributed by our Practitioner Researcher-in-Residence, Chela Scott Weber] Some of you may have seen the recent announcement that I’m working with the good folks here at OCLC Research through the end of June, to help shape a research and learning agenda around issues related to archives, special, and distinctive collections in research …
That was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers, initiated by Chew Chiat Naun of Harvard and John Riemer of the University of California, Los Angeles. In the library world we are familiar with highly centralized models for authority control, as exemplified by NACO and national authority files. However, libraries clearly …
OCLC Research is currently conducting a survey on innovation trends and priorities in European research libraries. The survey was sent to library directors at 238 institutions in the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, Spain, France, and Italy.* Our aim is to gain intelligence regarding trends, capacities and priorities within the European research library community. This …
That was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers, initiated by Jennifer Baxmeyer of Princeton, Dawn Hale of Johns Hopkins University and MJ Han of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Educating and training catalogers has been at the forefront of many discussions in the metadata community. Today’s changing landscape calls for …
Some of you may recall that back in 2015 we surveyed our OCLC Research Library Partners to determine their top challenges with web archiving, and the need for guidance on metadata practices emerged as #1. In response, early in 2016 we established a Web Archiving Metadata Working Group (WAM) to develop best practices for metadata. …
Check out the new OCLC Research report A Tour of the Research Data Management (RDM) Service Space, the first in a four-part series exploring the realities of research data management. This report provides background on RDM’s emergence as an important new service area supporting 21st century scholarship, and offers a high-level description of the RDM …
That was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers, initiated by Roxanne Missingham of Australian National University and Stephen Hearn of the University of Minnesota. Archival collections are in many ways the jewels in the crown of collections as they are unique research resources that provide insights into the world across …
Last month representatives from twelve of the fifteen OCLC Research Library Partners in Australia, Hong Kong and New Zealand met together at the University of Sydney. Before the two-hour meeting, participants had submitted their “top three priorities”. Most (25 of 36) fell under the rubric of “research collections and support”, for example: Research processes: Addressing …
I had the honor of being invited to participate in a linked data panel at the ALIA (Australian Library and Information Association) Information Online conference held in Sydney last month. We panelists were pleasantly surprised by the turnout—about 200 people attended our session, more than anticipated (standing room only). The conference organizers were amazingly prompt …
This October it will be 15 years since I wrote the oft-cited “MARC Must Die” column for Library Journal. At the time I took a lot of heat for that sentiment (and speaking engagements to defend it) but over time the profession has pretty much come around to realizing that it is time to do something …