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The MARC Field That Refused to Die

February 25, 2016February 25, 2016 - by Roy Tennant

Here at OCLC Research we look at a lot of bibliographic data. Usually in the aggregate, after having processed the 350+ million WorldCat records using our Hadoop cluster. One such …

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A Sister Blog is Born

February 8, 2016February 8, 2016 - by Roy Tennant

OCLC has launched a new blog: Next. Focused on what comes next for libraries, librarians, and the communities they serve, it will draw upon OCLC staff with a variety of experiences and perspectives. First …

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David Bowie’s Top 100 Books

January 13, 2016 - by Roy Tennant

If you grew up on David Bowie’s music as I did, this has not been a good week. We lost his creative genius way too early. Social media has been awash …

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Identifiers / Infrastructure / Libraries / Software

To Buy or Not to Buy and the Importance of Identifiers

July 17, 2015July 16, 2015 - by Roy Tennant

To buy, or not to buy–that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the end to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous vendors Or to take up coding against …

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Library Linked Data in the Cloud

May 22, 2015May 27, 2015 - by Roy Tennant

A book that a few of our colleagues have been working on for quite some time has now been released: Library Linked Data in the Cloud: OCLC’s Experiments with New Models …

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Architecture and Standards / Infrastructure / Libraries / Linked Data / Metadata

I Come Neither to Praise Nor Bury MARC

May 12, 2015May 12, 2015 - by Roy Tennant

I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. – Antony, in The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare My esteemed colleague Thom Hickey, who knows the MARC format more intimately …

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The Life of a Lowly MARC Subfield

April 15, 2015 - by Roy Tennant - 2 Comments.

Science uses the art of observation to unearth truth. Sometimes the observation is minutely focused on a small constituent of a much larger ecosystem. By doing this, it can be …

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Miscellaneous

New MARC Usage Data Available

February 24, 2015February 24, 2015 - by Roy Tennant - 1 Comment

I just finished updating my “MARC Usage in WorldCat” web site that summarizes and reports on how MARC elements have been used in the 333,518,928 MARC records in WorldCat as of …

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LC and OCLC Collaborate on Linked Data

January 27, 2015January 27, 2015 - by Roy Tennant

As we have said before, the Library of Congress and OCLC have been sharing information and approaches regarding library linked data. In a nutshell, we have two different use cases …

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Architecture and Standards / Identifiers / Infrastructure / Libraries / Linked Data / Metadata

Working Together to Clarify Approaches to Library Linked Data

December 17, 2014 - by Roy Tennant

As we announced earlier in the month, we have been communicating and collaborating with the Library of Congress over our different approaches to library linked data. The Library of Congress …

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