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Terms of use for finding aids: the time to open up has come!

July 25, 2018 - by Merrilee Proffitt

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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Infrastructure and Standards Support / Metadata

Six Years of Tracking MARC Usage

March 19, 2018March 16, 2018 - by Roy Tennant

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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Infrastructure and Standards Support / Research Information Management / Research Library Partnership

Who should take the Survey of Research Information Management Practices?

November 15, 2017August 21, 2020 - by Rebecca Bryant

Is it someone in the library? Or maybe in the office of institutional research? What about the office of the vice president for research? Or maybe the provost’s or rector’s …

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Infrastructure and Standards Support / Research Information Management / Research Library Partnership

Take the OCLC-euroCRIS survey of research information management practices

October 25, 2017October 12, 2020 - by Rebecca Bryant

Research information management (RIM), also often called Current Research Information Systems (CRISs), is the aggregation, curation, and utilization of metadata about research activities. Institutional RIM adoption, in tandem with activities …

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“MARC Must Die” 15 Years On

October 15, 2017October 15, 2017 - by Roy Tennant - 6 Comments.

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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Infrastructure and Standards Support / Linked Data / Metadata

MARC: The Neck Pillow of Bibliographic Data

July 5, 2017July 5, 2017 - by Roy Tennant

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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Collective Collections / Infrastructure and Standards Support / Systemwide Organization

Securing the Collective Print Books Collection: Progress to Date

June 19, 2017August 21, 2020 - by Rick Lugg

In 2012, Sustainable Collection Services (SCS) and the Michigan Shared Print Initiative (MI-SPI) undertook one of the first shared print monographs projects in the US. Seven libraries came together under …

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Infrastructure and Standards Support / Linked Data / Metadata

Five Years of Revealing How MARC is Used

March 1, 2017August 25, 2020 - by Roy Tennant - 3 Comments.

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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Infrastructure and Standards Support / Linked Data / Metadata

“Ground Truthing” MARC

June 6, 2016August 25, 2020 - by Roy Tennant - 2 Comments.

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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Infrastructure and Standards Support / Metadata

The MARC Field That Refused to Die

February 25, 2016August 25, 2020 - by Roy Tennant

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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