Skip to content

Hanging Together

the OCLC Research blog

  • Home
  • About
Main Menu

Digitization

Archives and Special Collections / Digitization / Wikimedia

Scan and Deliver… on Wikipedia!

July 24, 2012September 9, 2020 - by Jennifer Schaffner

I just learned from Max – our Wikipedian in Residence – that NARA (the US National Archives) is postings scans of archives on request and putting them up on Wikipedia. …

Read More
Digitization / Libraries

Public libraries in the digital age

July 19, 2012September 4, 2020 - by Ricky Erway - 3 Comments.

There is not often much in these posts about public libraries, but there are frequently posts about digital libraries. I admit to thinking there’s not all that much overlap between …

Read More
Archives and Special Collections / Digitization / Libraries Archives and Museums / Renovating Descriptive Practice / Visual Resources

Thick Description: Fingerprints, Sonnets, and Aboutness in Special Collections

May 17, 2012 - by Jennifer Schaffner

Discoverability of special collections has long been a top concern of the OCLC Research Library Partnership.  What works? Break out of the OPAC? Beyond MARC? End run around EAD? Constance …

Read More
Archives and Special Collections / Digitization

Digitizing special collections and leveraging fair use

March 5, 2012March 2, 2012 - by Merrilee Proffitt

After several years of work, the ARL Code of Best Practices for Fair Use in Academic and Research Libraries is out. I was particularly eager to read the Code for …

Read More
Archives and Special Collections / Digitization

Copyright and risk: upping the ante?

November 4, 2011September 9, 2020 - by Merrilee Proffitt

The US Copyright office has recently issued a paper, Priorities and Special Projects of the United States Copyright Office. The paper outlines some areas that the office will be working …

Read More
Archives and Special Collections / Digitization / Libraries Archives and Museums / Research Library Partnership / Visual Resources

Special delivery

May 18, 2011 - by Jennifer Schaffner

Deliver a lot. Deliver a little. It’s all about delivery. We’ve been doing a lot of work around here on strategies to make it easy for users to get their …

Read More
Archives and Special Collections / Digitization / Modeling new services / Research Information Management

See us at CNI next week!

March 30, 2011 - by Merrilee Proffitt

A few of us will be attending the Coalition for Networked Information Membership Meeting in San Diego next Monday and Tuesday. Jennifer will be giving a briefing on Managing Research …

Read More
Digitization / Renovating Descriptive Practice

A crowdsourcing success story

March 21, 2011October 12, 2020 - by Karen Smith-Yoshimura

I’m a great fan of the National Library of Australia’s Trove, a single search interface to 122 million resources—books, journals, photos, digitized newspapers, archives, maps, music, videos, Web sites—focused on …

Read More
Archives and Special Collections / Digitization

On building community

February 3, 2011 - by Merrilee Proffitt

Almost a year ago, we hosted Undue Diligence and released the “Well-intentioned practice for putting digitized collections of unpublished materials online” document (we just call it WIP). The point behind …

Read More
Collective Collections / Digitization / Modeling new services / Systemwide Organization

Cloud-sourcing Research Collections: Managing Print in the Mass-digitized Library Environment

January 6, 2011September 12, 2014 - by Jim Michalko - 1 Comment

The report of this project is now available. We blogged about it recently in the series of posts summarizing our major activities at year end. The importance of shared print …

Read More

Posts navigation

Previous 1 2 3 Next

OCLC Research

Hanging Together is the blog of OCLC Research. Learn more about OCLC Research on our website.

Links

  • Lorcan Dempsey's Weblog
  • Next – OCLC Blog
  • OCLC Research
  • OCLC Research Library Partnership
  • WebJunction

Categories

  • Archives and Special Collections (195)
  • Born-Digital Special Collections (14)
  • Collective Collections (118)
  • Data Science (7)
  • Digital Preservation (69)
  • Digitization (24)
  • Equity, Diversity, Inclusion (EDI) (7)
  • Evolving Scholarly Record (10)
  • Higher Education Future (8)
  • Identifiers (26)
  • Infrastructure and Standards Support (88)
  • Libraries (93)
  • Libraries Archives and Museums (125)
  • Libraries in the Enterprise (1)
  • Library Management (5)
  • Linked Data (33)
  • Measurement and Behaviors (44)
  • Metadata (75)
  • Miscellaneous (176)
  • Modeling new services (112)
  • MOOCs (7)
  • Museums (57)
  • Open Access (14)
  • Renovating Descriptive Practice (114)
  • Research Data Management (19)
  • Research Information Management (35)
  • Research Library Partnership (161)
  • Research support (22)
  • Resource Sharing (8)
  • Searching (38)
  • SHARES (6)
  • Supporting Scholarship (65)
  • Systemwide Organization (42)
  • User Behavior Studies and Synthesis (6)
  • Visual Resources (17)
  • Web Archiving (14)
  • WebJunction (6)
  • Wikimedia (43)

Share Buttons

Share on Facebook
Facebook
Tweet about this on Twitter
Twitter
Email this to someone
email

Email Notifications


 

Recent Comments

  • Gail Thornburg on さようなら (Sayōnara)
  • Ivy Anderson on さようなら (Sayōnara)
  • Günter on さようなら (Sayōnara)
  • Shuwen Cao on さようなら (Sayōnara)
  • Andrew Padilla on Presenting metadata from different sources in discovery layers

Recent Posts

  • Frequently asked questions: resource sharing practice in the time of COVID-19, Phase I
  • Towards respectful and inclusive description
  • The way forward to a more open future … together
  • さようなら (Sayōnara)
  • OCLC-LIBER Open Science Discussion on Citizen Science

Admin.

  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org
  • [Un]Subscribe to Posts
© 2020 OCLC