OCLC Research Mini-Symposium on Linked Data
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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Wrapping up the 2018 International Linked Data Survey for Implementers
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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The rise of Wikidata as a linked data source
As I analyze the responses to the OCLC Research 2018 International Linked Data Survey for Implementers, I’m looking out for significant differences with the responses to the previous, 2015 survey. …
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Advice from linked data implementers
The 2018 International Linked Data Survey for Implementers (announced in this 17 April 2018 HangingTogether blog post) attracted responses from 81 institutions in 20 countries. Together they described 104 linked …
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Representing works and their translations in Wikibase
The cream of the world’s culture and heritage is shared by being translated—it’s how we learn about other cultures and how other cultures learn about us. I’ve long been interested …
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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
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?
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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MARC: The Neck Pillow of Bibliographic Data
Now that I have your attention with that bizarre title, let me explain. Recently I gave a keynote talk at the IATUL Annual Conference in Bolzano, IT. Since I had …
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Linked data panel at ALIA Information Online 2017 Conference
I had the honor of being invited to participate in a linked data panel at the ALIA (Australian Library and Information Association) Information Online conference held in Sydney last month. …
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