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OCLC Research and the National Finding Aid Network project

November 10, 2020November 10, 2020 - by Merrilee Proffitt

We are very pleased to share details about our involvement in the Building a National Finding Aid Network project, which has received funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. OCLC will be working with the University …

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Archives and Special Collections / Linked Data / Research Library Partnership

Advancing linked data for archives and special collections: a new publication from the OCLC RLP

July 28, 2020July 27, 2020 - by Merrilee Proffitt

When we think about work in OCLC Research and in the OCLC Research Library Partnership, we take a number of different things into consideration. We think about how we are …

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Archives and Special Collections / Born-Digital Special Collections / Research Library Partnership

Time Estimation for Processing Born-Digital Collections

April 28, 2020September 9, 2020 - by Chela Scott Weber

Making informed and accurate projections of skills, time and materials needed for projects is key to responsibly managing the resources and collections entrusted to us. In the realm of archives …

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Learning from Each Other: webinar series on A/V work in the RLP

March 4, 2020March 3, 2020 - by Chela Scott Weber

Over the last year, OCLC Research has been building a program of work to support archives and special collections in stewarding, providing access to, and advocating for the rare and unique audiovisual materials in …

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Scale & Risk: Discussing Challenges to Managing A/V Collections in the RLP

October 1, 2019October 1, 2019 - by Chela Scott Weber

I recently wrote about the results of our survey to assess the needs of the Research Library Partnership (RLP) community related to audiovisual materials in special collections. In follow-up to …

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Assessing Needs of AV in Special Collections

July 23, 2019July 26, 2019 - by Chela Scott Weber

As diligent readers of Hanging Together likely already know, in October 2017, OCLC Research released the Research & Learning Agenda for Archives, Special, and Distinctive Collections. We created the agenda …

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Archives and Special Collections / Data Science

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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Archives and Special Collections / Libraries Archives and Museums

(Re-) Articulating Accessioning

November 27, 2018November 27, 2018 - by Chela Scott Weber

Accessioning is a core function in the archival enterprise, but one that is significantly less discussed and examined than other elements of work in archives. Stewardship responsibilities and collection management …

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Archives and Special Collections / Infrastructure and Standards Support / Metadata

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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Archives and Special Collections / Metadata / Web Archiving

Recommended Data Elements for Describing Archived Web Content

March 29, 2018August 21, 2020 - by Jackie Dooley

This is the third and final post reporting on the work of our OCLC Research Library Partnership Web Archiving Working Group. The first post summarizes our work overall and lists some …

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