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What’s changed in linked data implementations in the last three years?

April 17, 2018 - by Karen Smith-Yoshimura - Leave a Comment

OCLC Research conducted an “International Linked Data Survey for Implementers” in 2014 and 2015, attracting responses from a total of 90 institutions in 20 countries.  In the 2015 survey, 168 …

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What metadata managers expect from and value about the Research Library Partnership

April 16, 2018April 17, 2018 - by Karen Smith-Yoshimura - Leave a Comment

That was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers, initiated by Roxanne Missingham of Australian National University, John Riemer of University of California, Los Angeles, and …

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Are distributed models for vocabulary maintenance viable?

April 12, 2018April 10, 2018 - by Karen Smith-Yoshimura - 1 Comment

That was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers, initiated by Steven Folsom of Cornell University and Stephen Hearn of the University of Minnesota. Metadata practitioners can …

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Archives and Special Collections / Digital Preservation / Metadata

Recommended Data Elements for Describing Archived Web Content

March 29, 2018March 28, 2018 - by Jackie Dooley - Leave a Comment

This is the third and final post reporting on the work of our OCLC Research Library Partnership Web Archiving Working Group. The first post summarizes our work overall and lists some …

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Two Reports on Web Archiving: Literature Review and Tools Analysis

March 28, 2018March 27, 2018 - by Jackie Dooley - Leave a Comment

In yesterday’s post I briefly summarized the three reports issued last month by the OCLC Research Library Partnership Web Archiving Metadata Working Group. This post goes into more depth about …

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Archives and Special Collections / Digital Preservation / Metadata

Descriptive Metadata for Web Archiving: Read the reports!

March 27, 2018March 27, 2018 - by Jackie Dooley - Leave a Comment

What’s the most widely-shared, top- priority web archiving issue across the OCLC Research Library Partnership? We conducted a survey two years ago to explore web archiving needs across the Partnership, …

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Metadata

MarcEdit and other tools for batch processing and metadata reconciliation

March 26, 2018March 23, 2018 - by Karen Smith-Yoshimura - Leave a Comment

That was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers, initiated by Jennifer Baxmeyer of Princeton University and Sharon Farnel of the University of Alberta.  Many OCLC …

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Higher Education Future / Libraries / Research Note

The Curious Case of Balanced/Equilateral Higher Education Institutions and Potential Implications for Academic Libraries

March 22, 2018March 22, 2018 - by Rona Stein - Leave a Comment

Our Institutional Directions Model of US Universities and Colleges, which we have developed as part of The University Futures, Library Futures project, offers a novel system of accounting for the …

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Higher Education Future / Libraries / Research Note

What’s in a Name? More Than Meets the Eye, or IPEDS: On the Religious Identity of US Colleges and Universities

March 21, 2018March 22, 2018 - by Rona Stein - Leave a Comment

In our development of the University Futures, Library Futures working model, we entertained the thought of incorporating a dimension that would distinguish between religious and secular US colleges and universities, and …

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Architecture and Standards / Metadata

Six Years of Tracking MARC Usage

March 19, 2018March 16, 2018 - by Roy Tennant - Leave a Comment

We have been tracking the use of the MARC standard, as evidenced in WorldCat records (now well over 400 million!) for six years. Not only have we reported on how …

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