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Persistent identifiers for local collections

October 27, 2015October 12, 2020 - by Karen Smith-Yoshimura

That was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers, initiated by Jackie Shieh of George Washington University, Naun Chew of Cornell and Dawn Hale of Johns …

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To Buy or Not to Buy and the Importance of Identifiers

July 17, 2015October 12, 2020 - by Roy Tennant

To buy, or not to buy–that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the end to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous vendors Or to take up coding against …

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Working Together to Clarify Approaches to Library Linked Data

December 17, 2014August 25, 2020 - by Roy Tennant

As we announced earlier in the month, we have been communicating and collaborating with the Library of Congress over our different approaches to library linked data. The Library of Congress …

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Identifiers / Modeling new services / Research Information Management / Research Library Partnership / Supporting Scholarship

Libraries & Research: Supporting change in the university

November 19, 2014November 18, 2014 - by Merrilee Proffitt

[This is the third in a short series on our 2014 OCLC Research Library Partnership meeting, Libraries and Research: Supporting Change/Changing Support. You can read the first and second posts and also …

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Registering Researchers in Authority Files
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Lots more on researcher identifiers

October 28, 2014November 2, 2014 - by Karen Smith-Yoshimura

I blogged earlier this year inviting feedback on the OCLC Research Registering Researchers in Authority Files Task Group‘s draft report-and we did receive some, much appreciated. Now the report is …

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Identifiers / Infrastructure and Standards Support

Preparing for the future: supporting the transition to Linked Data in Libraries

August 11, 2014August 13, 2014 - by Jeff Mixter

For the past few years, Linked Data has been a buzzword at many of the major library conferences around the world. Linked Data has been the subject of paper presentations, …

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Identifiers / Infrastructure and Standards Support / Libraries Archives and Museums / Metadata / Modeling new services / Renovating Descriptive Practice

The Most Important Thing You Haven’t Heard Of

April 29, 2014April 29, 2014 - by Roy Tennant

Many really important things are not recognized as such when they occur. Recognition only dawns slowly, as the implications of what has happened sinks in. I think this is one …

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Identifiers

Researcher Identifiers

April 14, 2014April 28, 2014 - by Karen Smith-Yoshimura

Researcher identifiers have been the focus of OCLC Research “Registering Researchers in Authority Files” Task Group since October 2012 (see my blog post soon after we started). We recently issued …

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Identifiers / Metadata / Renovating Descriptive Practice

New Scholars’ Contributions to VIAF: Syriac!

March 11, 2014April 28, 2014 - by Karen Smith-Yoshimura

We have just loaded into the Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) the second set of personal names from a scholarly resource, the Syriac Reference Portal hosted by Vanderbilt University. Syriac …

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OCLC Exposes Bibliographic Works Data as Linked Open Data

February 25, 2014September 4, 2020 - by Roy Tennant

Today in Cape Town, South Africa, at the OCLC Europe, Middle East and Africa Regional Council (EMEARC) Meeting, my colleagues Richard Wallis and Ted Fons made an announcement that should make …

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