Multiple paths to Open library infrastructure
This is the fourth in a series of blog posts exploring the Open landscape and OCLC’s place within it. This post presents some reflections on library management systems and different …
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Author identity management in the book chain
Author identification is a recurring bottleneck across the trade book supply chain. Discussion participants agree about the importance of promoting the use of author identifiers like ISNI.
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La identificación del autor es un cuello de botella recurrente en la cadena de suministro de libros comerciales. Los participantes de la discusión están de acuerdo sobre la importancia de promover el uso de identificadores de autor como ISNI
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Identifiers / Infrastructure and Standards Support / Libraries / Linked Data / Metadata / Research Information Management / Research support
Taking research information to the next level
This post contextualizes the emergence of national persistent identifier (PID) roadmaps and points to the interoperability power of PIDs beyond research information management (RIM).
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Collaboration / Identifiers / Infrastructure and Standards Support / Libraries / Linked Data / Research Information Management
Debates de seguimiento en España: sesión sobre RIM y comunicación científica
Informe de las presentaciones en español del perfil de aplicación RDA de REBIUN para el registro de investigadores, los proyectos CRIS y Métricas de Dialnet y el proyecto Hércules.
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Follow-up discussion series in Spain: RIM and scholarly communications session
Reporting back from the Spanish presentations of REBIUN’s RDA application profile for registering researchers, Dialnet’s CRIS and Metricas projects, and project Hercules.
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Identifiers / Infrastructure and Standards Support / Linked Data / Metadata / Renovating Descriptive Practice
Next-generation metadata and the semantic continuum
Many thanks to Titia van der Werf, OCLC, for writing the majority of this blog post. On 13 April 2021, the Closing Plenary webinar took place to synthesize the OCLC Research Discussion …
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Nederlandse ronde tafel sessie over next generation metadata: Denk groter dan NACO en WorldCat
Met dank aan Ellen Hartman, OCLC, voor het vertalen van de oorspronkelijke Engelstalige blogpost. Op 8 maart 2021 werd een Nederlandse ronde tafel discussie georganiseerd als onderdeel van de OCLC …
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Dutch round table on next generation metadata: think bigger than NACO and WorldCat
As part of the OCLC Research Discussion Series on Next Generation Metadata, this blog post reports back from the Dutch language round table discussion held on March 8, 2021. (A Dutch …
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Third English round table on next generation metadata: investing in the utility of authorities and identifiers
Thanks to George Bingham, UK Account Manager at OCLC, for contributing this post as part of the Metadata Series blog posts. As part of the OCLC Research Discussion Series on Next Generation Metadata, this blog post reports back …
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