さようなら (Sayōnara)
This is my 116th—and last—blog post. I’m retiring at the end of November, something I’ve deferred as I’ve had such a great time hanging with all of you—staff at our …
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OCLC-LIBER Open Science Discussion on Skills
I had the pleasure of attending the OCLC-LIBER Open Science Skills discussion. Before sketching the landscape of the ideal future state, one of the participants suggested we start with a …
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OCLC-LIBER Open Science Discussion on the FAIR Principles
What is the ideal future vision of an open science ecosystem supporting FAIR data? What are the challenges in getting there? These were the topics of the second installment of …
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OCLC-LIBER Open Science Discussion on Scholarly Publishing
Recently OCLC Research and LIBER (the Association of European Research Libraries) hosted the first of seven small group discussions comprising the OCLC-LIBER Open Science Discussion Series. This discussion series, which …
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Transitioning to the Next Generation of Metadata
For years I’ve been blogging summaries of the OCLC Research Library Partners Metadata Managers Focus Group discussions. I have now synthesized the last six years (2015-2020) of discussions in the …
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Wikidata, Wikibase and the library linked data ecosystem: an OCLC Research Library Partnership discussion
In late July the OCLC Research Library Partnership convened a discussion that reflected on the current state of linked data. The discussion format was (for us) experimental — we invited …
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Managing interlibrary loan returns and overdues during the pandemic: emerging consensus from the SHARES resource sharing consortium
Since March 2020, when COVID-19 forced most libraries to shut down, send staff home to work remotely, and focus on providing all services digitally, I’ve been bringing together members of …
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Upcoming RLP webinar series on cross-campus collaboration in research support
The OCLC Research Library Partnership is offering an upcoming series of webinars focusing on cross-campus collaboration in research support, in conjunction with the forthcoming OCLC Research report, Social Interoperability in …
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Advancing linked data for archives and special collections: a new publication from the OCLC RLP
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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“We can’t just stand on our own anymore”: Collaboration and connection for research (and personal) support
Collaboration and connection were key themes of our third set of online “COVID check-in” sessions convened by the OCLC Research Library Partnership (RLP) Research Support Interest Group, where we discuss …
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