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French round table on next generation metadata: the challenge lies in managing multiple, co-existing ‘right scales’

March 24, 2021March 29, 2021 - by Titia van der Werf

As part of the OCLC Research Discussion Series on Next Generation Metadata, this blog post reports back from the French language round table discussion held on March 3, 2021. (A French translation of this …

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OCLC metadata discussion series
Identifiers / Infrastructure and Standards Support / Linked Data / Metadata / Renovating Descriptive Practice

First English round table on next generation metadata: towards a critical mass of interoperable library data

March 17, 2021March 23, 2021 - by Titia van der Werf

As part of the OCLC Research Discussion Series on Next Generation Metadata, this blog post reports back from the first English language round table discussion held on March 2, 2021.    The session was scheduled to facilitate a broad audience from the EMEA time …

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OCLC metadata discussion series
Identifiers / Infrastructure and Standards Support / Linked Data / Metadata / Renovating Descriptive Practice

Next Generation Metadata… it’s getting real!

March 4, 2021March 16, 2021 - by Titia van der Werf - 1 Comment

This spring, OCLC Research are running a discussion series on Next Generation Metadata, where library leaders, metadata experts and practitioners from the EMEA time zone (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) …

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Open Access / Research Data Management / Research Library Partnership / Research support

The way forward to a more open future … together

December 4, 2020December 4, 2020 - by Titia van der Werf

On 5 November 2020, Astrid Verheusen (Executive Director of LIBER), and OCLC Research program officers Rebecca Bryant and Titia van der Werf presented a webinar to summarize the OCLC-LIBER Open Science Discussion Series. This …

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Open Access

OCLC-LIBER Open Science Discussion on Citizen Science

November 11, 2020November 12, 2020 - by Titia van der Werf

Thanks to Sarah Bartlett, technology writer, for contributing this guest blog post. How is Citizen Science—the active contribution of the general public in scientific research activities—developing, and what should research …

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Equity, Diversity, Inclusion (EDI) / Open Access / Research support

OCLC-LIBER Open Science Discussion on Research Integrity

November 6, 2020November 6, 2020 - by Titia van der Werf

What does research integrity mean in an ideal open science ecosystem and how can libraries contribute to heighten professional ethics and standards required by open science? The sixth session of …

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Open Access / Research support

OCLC-LIBER Open Science Discussion on Metrics and Rewards

October 22, 2020February 7, 2022 - by Titia van der Werf

What is the role of metrics and rewards in an ideal open science ecosystem? What are the challenges in getting there? What would collective action look like? The fourth session …

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Identifiers / Research Information Management

OCLC Research mini symposium on Authorities & Identifiers in Barcelona

December 17, 2019December 17, 2019 - by Titia van der Werf

Together with CSUC (Consorci de Serveis Universitaris de Catalunya), OCLC organized a symposium for library professionals in Spain engaged in metadata practices around authorities and identifiers. The goal was to …

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Collective Collections / Digitization / Libraries Archives and Museums / Open Access / Supporting Scholarship

OCLC Research mini-symposium on the discovery and use of open (digitized) collections

July 8, 2019July 8, 2019 - by Titia van der Werf

On June 19th we held the third OCLC Research mini-symposium in Leiden. This time the topic was: “The discovery and use of open (digitized) collections.” The event attracted both library …

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Open Access

Is access to open content important to your library? A call for participation in the OCLC survey on open content

December 6, 2018December 6, 2018 - by Titia van der Werf

Why a survey? Despite the ongoing discussions about the benefits of Open Access, Open Data, Open Government Information, and Open Content more generally, the extent to which such content is …

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