The MARC Field That Refused to Die
Here at OCLC Research we look at a lot of bibliographic data. Usually in the aggregate, after having processed the 350+ million WorldCat records using our Hadoop cluster. One such …
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Services built on usage metrics
That was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers, initiated by Corey Harper of New York University and Stephen Hearn of University of Minnesota. They had …
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To Buy or Not to Buy and the Importance of Identifiers
To buy, or not to buy–that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the end to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous vendors Or to take up coding against …
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I Come Neither to Praise Nor Bury MARC
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. – Antony, in The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare My esteemed colleague Thom Hickey, who knows the MARC format more intimately …
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The Life of a Lowly MARC Subfield
Science uses the art of observation to unearth truth. Sometimes the observation is minutely focused on a small constituent of a much larger ecosystem. By doing this, it can be …
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Working Together to Clarify Approaches to Library Linked Data
As we announced earlier in the month, we have been communicating and collaborating with the Library of Congress over our different approaches to library linked data. The Library of Congress …
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RIM: notes and thoughts about the euroCRIS meeting in Amsterdam
Lorcan’s recent blog post on “Research information management systems – a new service category?” has drawn the attention of some of the euroCRIS board members and so I was invited …
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Are you ready for EAD3? It’s coming soon!
The third version of Encoded Archival Description (EAD) is on the cusp of being released, which prompts me to offer up a quickie history of EAD’s development and to summarize what’s coming …
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The Variation and the Damage Done
Some of you may already know about my “MARC Usage in WorldCat” project, where I simply expose the contents of a number of MARC subfields in ordered lists of strings. The …
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Linked Data Survey results 6 – Advice from the implementers
OCLC Research conducted an international linked data survey for implementers between 7 July and 15 August 2014. This is the sixth-–and last-–post in the series reporting the results. …
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