Filling our cups at the home office water cooler
A few weeks ago I learned that Crystal, an OCLC colleague I barely knew, loves to play board games, that she and her husband just became empty nesters (like my …
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Exploring Canadiana: A Use Case for Wikidata
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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Shaping an Applied Research Agenda
In late April 2019 a group of librarians, technologists, and OCLC staff gathered in Dublin, Ohio to help shape an applied research agenda that charts a path for engagement with …
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Initiating an Applied Research Agenda
In January I joined OCLC Research as a Practitioner Researcher in Residence. Over the next few months, I will lead the development of an applied research agenda that charts a …
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Upcoming events: OCLC RLP Research Retreat and ResearchWorks
We are very excited about two upcoming paired events – the Research Retreat (April 23-24) and ResearchWorks: Shaping an Applied Research Agenda (April 25-26). The events will be held in …
Read MorePinch Me. I’m Dreaming.
I was a library assistant at a community college in California when the microcomputer Commodore PET was released. At the time I was starting to think about going to college …
Read MoreAdventures in Hadoop, #5: String Searching vs. Record Parsing
In a previous post I described how I could now string search WorldCat using the Research compute cluster and Hadoop. This means I can find any string of characters anywhere in a …
Read MoreAdventures in Hadoop, #3: String Searching WorldCat
OK, I admit it. Ever since I joined OCLC over five years ago I’ve harbored a dream. My dream was to one day string search WorldCat. What that means is …
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