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New MARC Usage Data Available

February 24, 2015September 3, 2020 - by Roy Tennant - 1 Comment

I just finished updating my “MARC Usage in WorldCat” web site that summarizes and reports on how MARC elements have been used in the 333,518,928 MARC records in WorldCat as of …

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

Working Together to Clarify Approaches to Library Linked Data

December 17, 2014August 25, 2020 - 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 …

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Archives and Special Collections / Infrastructure and Standards Support / Metadata

Are you ready for EAD3? It’s coming soon!

November 5, 2014November 5, 2014 - by Jackie Dooley - 12 Comments.

The third version of Encoded Archival Description (EAD) is on the cusp of being released, which prompts me to offer up a quickie history of EAD’s development and to summarize what’s coming …

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Libraries / Metadata

Synchronizing metadata among different databases

November 4, 2014November 2, 2014 - by Karen Smith-Yoshimura

That was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers, initiated by Naun Chew of Cornell and Joan Swanekamp of Yale. As libraries have increased collecting commercial …

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Infrastructure and Standards Support / Libraries / Metadata / Renovating Descriptive Practice

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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Libraries / Metadata / Renovating Descriptive Practice

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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Infrastructure and Standards Support / Metadata / Renovating Descriptive Practice

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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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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Identifiers / Infrastructure and Standards Support / Libraries Archives and Museums / Metadata / Modeling new services / Renovating Descriptive Practice

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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