From Records to Things
My colleague Jean Godby and I co-authored for the December/January 2017 issue of the ASIS&T Bulletin (aka Bulletin of the Association for Information Science and Technology) the article, “From Records …
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Sharing digital collections workflows
That was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers, initiated by Roxanne Missingham of Australian National University and Dawn Hale of Johns Hopkins University. Originally entitled …
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Metadata reconciliation
That was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers, initiated by Myung-Ja (MJ) Han of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She wanted to find out …
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More on international linked data survey for implementers
D-Lib Magazine has just published my analysis of the 2015 International Linked Data Survey for Implementers.* I published the results of the 2014 linked data survey in a series of …
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“Ground Truthing” MARC
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 …
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Getting identifiers created for legacy names
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 …
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What’s changed in linked data implementations?
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 …
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Library Linked Data in the Cloud
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 …
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Shift to Linked Data for production
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 …
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I Come Neither to Praise Nor Bury MARC
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 …
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