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In April-May this year we conducted the third “International Linked Data Survey or Implementers” as we were curious what might have changed in the three years since the last survey. …
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That was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers, initiated by John Riemer of University of California, Los Angeles, Stephen Hearn of University of Minnesota, and …
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As I analyze the responses to the OCLC Research 2018 International Linked Data Survey for Implementers, I’m looking out for significant differences with the responses to the previous, 2015 survey. …
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The cream of the world’s culture and heritage is shared by being translated—it’s how we learn about other cultures and how other cultures learn about us. I’ve long been interested …
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Wikipedia is one of the most ubiquitously used sources on the planet — I know you’ve used it to check out a quick fact or two, and you know your library patrons …
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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 …
Read MoreLast year, at the RBMS preconference in Minneapolis, I was joined by Bob Kosovsky (New York Public Library) Ryan Cartwright (MNopedia Associate Project Editor, Minnesota Historical Society) and János McGhie (St. …
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For some time now I’ve been involved with the Wikipedia Library Project — you can find about more about the project on Wikipedia, naturally, but I’ll also break it down …
Read MoreIntroduction Since entering the library world, I’ve been fascinated by the substream of uber-geeks which are the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) nerds. It was the enthusiastic and technical-leaning banter of …
Read MoreInfoboxes for a long time were Wikipedias’ way of storing data, and Wikidata is set to replace that techonlogy, with added bonuses like inter-language sharing. To get to that promise …
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