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さようなら (Sayōnara)

November 16, 2020November 12, 2020 - by Karen Smith-Yoshimura - 4 Comments.

This is my 116th—and last—blog post. I’m retiring at the end of November, something I’ve deferred as I’ve had such a great time hanging with all of you—staff at our …

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Linked Data / Metadata / Research Library Partnership

Transitioning to the Next Generation of Metadata

October 1, 2020September 30, 2020 - by Karen Smith-Yoshimura

For years I’ve been blogging summaries of the OCLC Research Library Partners Metadata Managers Focus Group discussions. I have now synthesized the last six years (2015-2020) of discussions in the …

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Wikimedia

Experimentations with Wikidata/Wikibase

June 18, 2020September 3, 2020 - by Karen Smith-Yoshimura

That was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers, initiated by Daniel Lovins of Yale, John Riemer of University of California, Los Angeles, Melanie Wacker of …

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Metadata

Metadata management in times of uncertainty

June 15, 2020June 12, 2020 - by Karen Smith-Yoshimura

That was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers, initiated by Erin Grant of University of Washington, Jennifer Baxmeyer of Princeton, Roxanne Missingham of Australian National …

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Metadata

Presenting metadata from different sources in discovery layers

April 16, 2020April 16, 2020 - by Karen Smith-Yoshimura - 3 Comments.

That was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers, initiated by Daniel Lovins of Yale, Erin Grant of the University of Washington, and Jennifer Baxmeyer of …

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Metadata / Research support

Knowledge Management and Metadata

April 9, 2020April 8, 2020 - by Karen Smith-Yoshimura

That was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers, initiated by Roxanne Missingham of Australian National University and Suzanne Pilsk of the Smithsonian Institution. How can …

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Metadata

New ways of using and enhancing cataloging and authority records

April 2, 2020April 8, 2020 - by Karen Smith-Yoshimura - 3 Comments.

That was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers, initiated by Stephen Hearn of the University of Minnesota, Melanie Wacker of Columbia University, and John Riemer …

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Metadata

Cyrillicizing WorldCat Russian records

March 3, 2020March 2, 2020 - by Karen Smith-Yoshimura - 2 Comments.

Russian is the 5th most common language of the resources described in WorldCat, yet up to now the great majority of the records have been accessible only by searching by …

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Equity, Diversity, Inclusion (EDI) / Metadata

Strategies for alternate subject headings and maintaining subject headings

October 29, 2019October 29, 2019 - by Karen Smith-Yoshimura - 1 Comment

That was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers, initiated by Stephen Hearn of the University of Minnesota, Sharon Farnel of the University of Alberta, and …

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Metadata

Stewardship of professional FTEs in metadata work and turnover

October 18, 2019October 12, 2020 - by Karen Smith-Yoshimura

That was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers, initiated by John Riemer of University of California, Los Angeles and Jennifer Baxmeyer of Princeton. Turnover in …

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