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This blog post was written by Jenny Toves, Senior Technical Manager, OCLC Data Science and Analytics. Any system aggregating data from thousands of sources needs sophisticated processes that mitigate duplication* …
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The following post was written by Jeff Young with contributions from Jeff Mixter. Analyzing MARC data for quality assurance can be a challenging task. This problem becomes exponentially more difficult when …
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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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In November, we shared information with you about the Building a National Finding Aid Network project (NAFAN). This is a two-year research and demonstration project to build the foundation for a (US) national …
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A few weeks ago I learned that Crystal, an OCLC colleague I barely knew, loves to play board games, that she and her husband just became empty nesters (like my …
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My colleagues Jean Godby, Karen Smith-Yoshimura, and Bruce Washburn, along with a host of partners, have just released Creating Library Linked Data with Wikibase: Lessons Learned from Project Passage, a …
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In late April 2019 a group of librarians, technologists, and OCLC staff gathered in Dublin, Ohio to help shape an applied research agenda that charts a path for engagement with …
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In January I joined OCLC Research as a Practitioner Researcher in Residence. Over the next few months, I will lead the development of an applied research agenda that charts a …
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We are very excited about two upcoming paired events – the Research Retreat (April 23-24) and ResearchWorks: Shaping an Applied Research Agenda (April 25-26). The events will be held in …
Read MoreI was a library assistant at a community college in California when the microcomputer Commodore PET was released. At the time I was starting to think about going to college …
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