さようなら (Sayōnara)
This is my 116th—and last—blog post. I’m retiring at the end of November, something I’ve deferred as I’ve had such a great time hanging with all of you—staff at our …
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Transitioning to the Next Generation of Metadata
For years I’ve been blogging summaries of the OCLC Research Library Partners Metadata Managers Focus Group discussions. I have now synthesized the last six years (2015-2020) of discussions in the …
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Experimentations with Wikidata/Wikibase
That was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers, initiated by Daniel Lovins of Yale, John Riemer of University of California, Los Angeles, Melanie Wacker of …
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Metadata management in times of uncertainty
That was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers, initiated by Erin Grant of University of Washington, Jennifer Baxmeyer of Princeton, Roxanne Missingham of Australian National …
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Presenting metadata from different sources in discovery layers
That was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers, initiated by Daniel Lovins of Yale, Erin Grant of the University of Washington, and Jennifer Baxmeyer of …
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Knowledge Management and Metadata
That was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers, initiated by Roxanne Missingham of Australian National University and Suzanne Pilsk of the Smithsonian Institution. How can …
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New ways of using and enhancing cataloging and authority records
That was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers, initiated by Stephen Hearn of the University of Minnesota, Melanie Wacker of Columbia University, and John Riemer …
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Cyrillicizing WorldCat Russian records
Russian is the 5th most common language of the resources described in WorldCat, yet up to now the great majority of the records have been accessible only by searching by …
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Strategies for alternate subject headings and maintaining subject headings
That was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers, initiated by Stephen Hearn of the University of Minnesota, Sharon Farnel of the University of Alberta, and …
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Stewardship of professional FTEs in metadata work and turnover
That was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers, initiated by John Riemer of University of California, Los Angeles and Jennifer Baxmeyer of Princeton. Turnover in …
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