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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The Variation and the Damage Done
Some 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 …
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BIBFRAME Testing and Implementation
That 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, …
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Libraries Making an Impact on the Web of Data
It 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 …
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Digitization / Infrastructure / Libraries / Libraries, Archives, Museums (LAM) / Modeling new services / Renovating Descriptive Practice / Wikipedia
Code4Lib NorCal Hosted by OCLC Research
Yesterday 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 …
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Challenges posed by translations
I 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 …
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Architecture and Standards / Identifiers / Libraries, Archives, Museums (LAM) / Metadata / Modeling new services / Renovating Descriptive Practice
The Most Important Thing You Haven’t Heard Of
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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Authority for Establishing Metadata Practice
That 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 …
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That 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 …
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New Scholars’ Contributions to VIAF: Syriac!
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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