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Exploring Canadiana: A Use Case for Wikidata

August 15, 2019September 3, 2020 - by Brian Lavoie

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

May 17, 2019October 12, 2020 - by Thomas Padilla

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

March 6, 2019September 18, 2020 - by Thomas Padilla

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

February 26, 2019March 6, 2019 - by Merrilee Proffitt

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 …

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Pinch Me. I’m Dreaming.

May 30, 2013September 4, 2020 - by Roy Tennant - 2 Comments.

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 …

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Data Science / Infrastructure and Standards Support / Renovating Descriptive Practice

Adventures in Hadoop, #5: String Searching vs. Record Parsing

January 25, 2013September 4, 2020 - by Roy Tennant - 1 Comment

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 …

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Adventures in Hadoop, #3: String Searching WorldCat

September 25, 2012September 4, 2020 - by Roy Tennant - 1 Comment

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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