Two Huge Linked Data Announcements
This week we have announced two major initiatives that are now providing significant library linked data resources to the world. First was the announcement yesterday that all of the 23rd …
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Harvard bibliographic data released with prominent nod to OCLC
Back in October we were excited to announce the final step in a project on which OCLC Research worked with the University of Cambridge – the release of their library …
Read MoreFive Easy Pieces
I seem to have acquired an obsession. This obsession manifests itself in various ways, but one clear way is that I can’t seem to stop thinking about some of the …
Read MoreOCLC Research 2011: it’s starting to look like a lot of Linked Data
This is the sixth post in a mini series, where we look back at accomplishments in 2011. While OCLC has gotten some (deserved and undeserved) bashing in the blogosphere during …
Read MoreOCLC Research 2011: “Well Intentioned Practices” adopted as a standard
We are closing out 2011 with a mini blog series, looking back on some highlights. This is the fifth post in the series Although we’ve blogged about WIP, or “Well-intentioned …
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FAST on the street
I’m pleased to say that today OCLC Research released FAST (Faceted Application of Subject Terminology) as linked data under an Open Data Commons Attribution license. FAST has been a multi-year …
Read MoreThe tail of the COMET (Project)
Today the University of Cambridge released the final dataset from its COMET (Cambridge Open METadata) project. The final dataset contains more than 600,000 records derived from OCLC’s WorldCat available as …
Read MoreMore From the “Murky Bucket”
The inspiration for my title comes from Lorcan Dempsey, who some years ago, before I joined him at OCLC, put a name to the unease I had been feeling about …
Read MoreMonster Mash
Tomorrow Bruce Washburn and I leave from the San Mateo office of OCLC Research to help run the WorldCat Mashathon in Boston (well, Cambridge, really, but you could toss a …
Read MoreEconomics of Scholarly Production: Supplemental Materials
At the Spring CNI Taskforce meeting last April, Karen Wetzel (Standards Program Manager at NISO) announced a new piece of work related to “supplemental materials” in journal articles. In the …
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