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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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Libraries / Metadata

Stewardship of professional FTEs in metadata work and turnover

October 18, 2019October 17, 2019 - by Karen Smith-Yoshimura - Leave a Comment

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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Identifiers / Metadata

“Future Proofing” of Cataloging

October 11, 2019October 11, 2019 - by Karen Smith-Yoshimura - Leave a Comment

That was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers, initiated by Melanie Wacker of Columbia, Daniel Lovins of Yale and Roxanne Missingham of Australian National University. …

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Linked Data / Wikidata

Now Available! OCLC Research Report on Lessons from Project Passage

August 5, 2019August 5, 2019 - by Karen Smith-Yoshimura

Did my earlier posts summarizing the goals, content, and use cases and some of the lessons learned and reflections from our Project Passage experiences whet your appetite to read the …

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Linked Data / Wikidata

Summarizing Project Passage experiences in creating library linked data in Wikibase (2 of 2)

July 17, 2019July 16, 2019 - by Karen Smith-Yoshimura

Last week’s blog post summarized the goals and content of the OCLC Research linked data Wikibase prototype called “Project Passage” and the use cases described by the project participants. After …

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Linked Data / Wikidata

Summarizing Project Passage experiences in creating library linked data in Wikibase (1 of 2)

July 11, 2019July 19, 2019 - by Karen Smith-Yoshimura

Last year we concluded a ten-month pilot, called “Project Passage”, using a Wikibase instance to create and edit library metadata in collaboration with 16 U.S. libraries. Our upcoming report documenting …

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Metadata

Knowledge Organization Systems

April 17, 2019April 16, 2019 - by Karen Smith-Yoshimura

That was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers, initiated by Daniel Lovins of Yale and Stephen Hearn of the University of Minnesota. As controlled vocabularies …

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Metadata

Alternatives to Statistics for Measuring Success and Value of Cataloging

April 15, 2019April 11, 2019 - by Karen Smith-Yoshimura

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

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Metadata

Systematic Reviews of Our Metadata

April 10, 2019April 10, 2019 - by Karen Smith-Yoshimura

That was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers, initiated by Melanie Wacker of Columbia University, Roxanne Missingham of Australian National University, and Sharon Farnel of …

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Linked Data / Wikidata

OCLC Research Mini-Symposium on Linked Data (Marseille edition)

April 4, 2019April 12, 2019 - by Karen Smith-Yoshimura

My colleague Titia van der Werf and I organized a “mini-symposium on Linked Data” as part of the OCLC EMEA (Europe-Middle East-Africa) Regional Council conference held in Marseille on 26 …

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