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“Ground Truthing” MARC

June 6, 2016June 2, 2016 - by Roy Tennant - 2 Comments.

Although the thought was revolutionary back in 2002, librarians now widely recognize that our metadata requirements have outgrown the MARC standard. After 50 years of service it’s time to make …

Identifiers / Libraries / Linked Data

Getting identifiers created for legacy names

October 30, 2015May 11, 2017 - by Karen Smith-Yoshimura - 1 Comment

That was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers, initiated by John Riemer of UCLA and Jennifer Baxmeyer of Princeton. A sizable quantity of legacy names …

Libraries, Archives, Museums (LAM) / Linked Data

What’s changed in linked data implementations?

June 1, 2015 - by Karen Smith-Yoshimura

Last year we received 96 responses to the OCLC Research “International Linked Data Survey for Implementers” reporting 172 linked data projects or services in 15 countries, of which 76 were …

Linked Data

Library Linked Data in the Cloud

May 22, 2015April 29, 2019 - by Roy Tennant

A book that a few of our colleagues have been working on for quite some time has now been released: Library Linked Data in the Cloud: OCLC’s Experiments with New Models …

Libraries / Linked Data

Shift to Linked Data for production

May 13, 2015May 11, 2017 - by Karen Smith-Yoshimura

That was the topic discussed several times recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers, initiated by Philip Schreur of Stanford, who is also involved in the Linked Data …

Architecture and Standards / Infrastructure / Libraries / Linked Data / Metadata

I Come Neither to Praise Nor Bury MARC

May 12, 2015May 12, 2015 - by Roy Tennant

I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. – Antony, in The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare My esteemed colleague Thom Hickey, who knows the MARC format more intimately …

Architecture and Standards / Identifiers / Infrastructure / Libraries / Linked Data / Metadata

Working Together to Clarify Approaches to Library Linked Data

December 17, 2014 - by Roy Tennant

As we announced earlier in the month, we have been communicating and collaborating with the Library of Congress over our different approaches to library linked data. The Library of Congress …

Infrastructure / Libraries, Archives, Museums (LAM) / Linked Data

Linked Data Survey results 6 – Advice from the implementers

September 8, 2014April 29, 2019 - by Karen Smith-Yoshimura

OCLC Research conducted an international linked data survey for implementers between 7 July and 15 August 2014. This is the sixth-–and last-–post in the series reporting the results. …