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Transcription vs. Transliteration

February 25, 2015 - by Karen Smith-Yoshimura

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

October 22, 2014October 22, 2014 - by Roy Tennant - 3 Comments.

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

October 21, 2014October 21, 2014 - by Karen Smith-Yoshimura

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

September 2, 2014August 25, 2020 - by Roy Tennant

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 and Standards Support / Libraries Archives and Museums / Modeling new services / Renovating Descriptive Practice / Wikimedia

Code4Lib NorCal Hosted by OCLC Research

July 29, 2014October 12, 2020 - by Roy Tennant

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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Metadata / Renovating Descriptive Practice

Challenges posed by translations

May 20, 2014 - by Karen Smith-Yoshimura

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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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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Metadata / Renovating Descriptive Practice

Authority for Establishing Metadata Practice

April 7, 2014September 18, 2020 - by Karen Smith-Yoshimura

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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Implications of BIBFRAME Authorities

April 3, 2014October 12, 2020 - by Karen Smith-Yoshimura

  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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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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