Progress on building a National Finding Aid Network
The following post is part of a series highlighting OCLC Research’s efforts for the Building a National Finding Aid Network (NAFAN) project. You can view the rest of the series …
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Encoded Archival Standards: a view from ArchiveGrid and NAFAN research
On August 3, Chela Weber and I had an opportunity to participate in the joint annual (and this year virtual) meeting of the Society of American Archivists Encoded Archival Standards …
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Archives and Special Collections / Collective Collections / Equity, Diversity, Inclusion (EDI) / Metadata / Research Information Management / Research Library Partnership / Social Interoperability
Exploration and consultation: The OCLC Research Library Partnership trajectory
For those institutions that participate, it is time for a “thank you” for another year of support and robust participation in the OCLC Research Library Partnership network! It is evident …
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La próxima generación de metadatos en el patrimonio cultural: continuando la conversación en España
Gracias a Francesc García Grimau, OCLC, que amablemente ha proporcionado la versión en español de esta entrada de blog. La versión en inglés está disponible aquí. Esta publicación es parte de una …
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This post is part of a series reporting back from conversations on transitioning to the next generation of metadata in Spain, this time focusing on cultural heritage. (A Spanish translation …
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NAFAN focus groups: Aligning participant selection with project values
This post is one in a series detailing the research work OCLC is contributing to the Building a National Finding Aid Project (NAFAN). You can see the rest of the …
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Connecting EAD headings to controlled vocabularies
Are EAD content headings associated with controlled vocabularies, or can they be? For names of people, families, organizations, subjects, places, and genre forms, the EAD Tag Analysis conducted by OCLC …
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How users find and visit archival aggregation websites
The following post is part of a series highlighting OCLC Research’s efforts for the Building a National Finding Aid Network (NAFAN) project. This post is the fifth in a series on the NAFAN study conducted by OCLC Research in partnership …
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Getting to know users of archival aggregation sites
The following post is part of series highlighting OCLC Research’s efforts for the Building a National Finding Aid Network (NAFAN) project. One major challenge for the NAFAN project is the lack of information about the users of archival …
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A research roadmap for Building a National Finding Aid Network (NAFAN)
I had the opportunity to develop and lead the OCLC project team in the user research design phase for the IMLS-funded project (grant number LG-246349-OLS-20), Building a National Finding Aid …
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