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Machine Learning and WorldCat: improving records for cataloging and discovery

August 14, 2023August 14, 2023 - by Merrilee Proffitt - 2 Comments.

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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Data Science / Linked Data / Metadata

How MARC can SPARQL!

February 23, 2022February 22, 2022 - by Jeff Mixter

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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Archives and Special Collections / Data Science

Connecting EAD headings to controlled vocabularies

January 6, 2022January 5, 2022 - by Bruce Washburn

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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Archives and Special Collections / Data Science

How well does EAD tag usage support finding aid discovery?

July 28, 2021August 9, 2021 - by Bruce Washburn - 7 Comments.

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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Filling our cups at the home office water cooler

June 15, 2021June 21, 2021 - by Andrew K. Pace - 6 Comments.

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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Collective Collections / Data Science / Linked Data / Wikimedia

Exploring Canadiana: A Use Case for Wikidata

August 15, 2019September 3, 2020 - by Brian Lavoie

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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Archives and Special Collections / Data Science

Shaping an Applied Research Agenda

May 17, 2019October 12, 2020 - by Thomas Padilla

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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Data Science / Research Library Partnership

Initiating an Applied Research Agenda

March 6, 2019September 18, 2020 - by Thomas Padilla

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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Data Science / Research Library Partnership

Upcoming events: OCLC RLP Research Retreat and ResearchWorks

February 26, 2019March 6, 2019 - by Merrilee Proffitt

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 …

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Data Science

Pinch Me. I’m Dreaming.

May 30, 2013September 4, 2020 - by Roy Tennant - 2 Comments.

I 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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