
Transcription vs. Transliteration
This post is co-authored by Karen Coombs, OCLC Senior Product Analyst Our virtual dialog began with Karen C’s tweet: But Karen S-Y couldn’t respond in just the …
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This post is co-authored by Karen Coombs, OCLC Senior Product Analyst Our virtual dialog began with Karen C’s tweet: But Karen S-Y couldn’t respond in just the …
Read MoreSome of you may already know about my “MARC Usage in WorldCat” project, where I simply expose the contents of a number of MARC subfields in ordered lists of strings. The …
Read MoreThat was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers, initiated by Philip Schreur of Stanford. We were fortunate that staff from several BIBFRAME testers participated: Columbia, …
Read MoreIt has been no secret that we are using a vocabulary developed by Google, Microsoft, and others for exposing structured metadata on the web. Documented at Schema.org, this vocabulary is …
Read MoreYesterday the San Mateo, CA office of OCLC Research hosted the first Code4Lib NorCal regional meetup and mini-conference. About 35 people attended from Stanford, UC Berkeley, CSU Chancellor’s Office, UCSF, CSU San …
Read MoreI have been doing a lot of editing of worksets datamined from WorldCat to identify the titles of original works (in the original language and script) and all their associated …
Read MoreMany 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 …
Read MoreThat was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers. Carlen Ruschoff (U. Maryland), Philip Schreur (Stanford) and Joan Swanekamp (Yale) had initiated the topic, observing that libraries …
Read MoreThat was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers, initiated by Philip Schreur of Stanford. We were fortunate that several staff from the Library of …
Read MoreWe 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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