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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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In late July the OCLC Research Library Partnership convened a discussion that reflected on the current state of linked data. The discussion format was (for us) experimental — we invited …
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When we think about work in OCLC Research and in the OCLC Research Library Partnership, we take a number of different things into consideration. We think about how we are …
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My colleagues Jean Godby, Karen Smith-Yoshimura, and Bruce Washburn, along with a host of partners, have just released Creating Library Linked Data with Wikibase: Lessons Learned from Project Passage, a …
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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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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 …
Read More 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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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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Titia van der Werf and I, with our colleague Shenghui Wang, organized a “mini-symposium on Linked Data” held in the OCLC Leiden office on 19 November, 2018. We brought together …
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In April-May this year we conducted the third “International Linked Data Survey or Implementers” as we were curious what might have changed in the three years since the last survey. …
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