COVID-19 Research and REALM
The REopening Archives, Libraries, and Museums (REALM) project has been in full motion since spring 2020. As the project charts the path forward into the new year and next phase …
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Collective Collections / Digitization / Libraries Archives and Museums / Open Access / Supporting Scholarship
OCLC Research mini-symposium on the discovery and use of open (digitized) collections
On June 19th we held the third OCLC Research mini-symposium in Leiden. This time the topic was: “The discovery and use of open (digitized) collections.” The event attracted both library …
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OCLC Research Mini-Symposium on Linked Data
Titia van der Werf and I, with our colleague Shenghui Wang, organized a “mini-symposium on Linked Data” held in the OCLC Leiden office on 19 November, 2018. We brought together …
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Wrapping up the 2018 International Linked Data Survey for Implementers
In April-May this year we conducted the third “International Linked Data Survey or Implementers” as we were curious what might have changed in the three years since the last survey. …
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(Re-) Articulating Accessioning
Accessioning is a core function in the archival enterprise, but one that is significantly less discussed and examined than other elements of work in archives. Stewardship responsibilities and collection management …
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Data Management and Curation in 21st Century Archives – Part 2
I attended the 79th Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archivists (SAA) last month in Cleveland, Ohio and was invited to participate on the Research Libraries Roundtable panel on …
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Archives and Special Collections / Libraries Archives and Museums / Research Data Management / User Behavior Studies and Synthesis
Data Management and Curation in 21st Century Archives – Part 1
I attended the 79th Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archivists (SAA) last month in Cleveland, Ohio and was invited to participate on the Research Libraries Roundtable panel on …
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What’s changed in linked data implementations?
Last year we received 96 responses to the OCLC Research “International Linked Data Survey for Implementers” reporting 172 linked data projects or services in 15 countries, of which 76 were …
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Managing Metadata for Image Collections
That was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers, initiated by Naun Chew of Cornell and Stephen Hearn of the University of Minnesota. Focus group members …
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Hallmarks of library cooperation
The OCLC Research Library Partnership offers opportunities for staff to learn from peers in other countries. Hideyuki Seki of Keio University took advantage of this opportunity to ask the OCLC Research …
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