the OCLC Research blog
Sometimes projects take a long time to come to fruition. An excellent (and recent) example of this is the Terms of Use and Re-Use for Finding Aid Metadata project which was launched …
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We have been tracking the use of the MARC standard, as evidenced in WorldCat records (now well over 400 million!) for six years. Not only have we reported on how …
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Fifteen years ago to the day I declared that “MARC Must Die” in Library Journal. It sparked a firestorm of criticism, mostly from the cataloging community, and several invitations to …
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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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This October it will be 15 years since I wrote the oft-cited “MARC Must Die” column for Library Journal. At the time I took a lot of heat for that sentiment …
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Although the thought was revolutionary back in 2002, librarians now widely recognize that our metadata requirements have outgrown the MARC standard. After 50 years of service it’s time to make …
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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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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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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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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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