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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Gestión de la identidad del autor en la cadena del libro
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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Visualizing Digital Humanities Workshop
Last month I and four OCLC colleagues—William Harvey, Rob Koopman, Shenghui Wang, and Jeff Young—participated in a “Visualizing Digital Humanities” workshop held at the Lorentz Center at the University of …
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Combating fake news through “credibility standards”
Unless you’ve been hiding in a remote location with no access to news or social media, you know that the topic of and discussions around “fake news” have been top …
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A story about the spirituality of libraries
At the AMICAL 2016 conference, I heard an inspiring story about the cyclical destruction and revival of libraries. Dr. Richard Hodges, President of the AU of Rome, began his welcome …
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My first library job
My first library “job” was as “volunteen” for the summer reading program at the Garden Grove Chapman Branch of the Orange County Public Library. I did this during the …
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What is your library mission statement or manifesto?
For an upcoming event, I am working with a speaker who is not from the library world. He asked, “is there a commonly held mission statement or manifesto that would …
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