MARC: The Neck Pillow of Bibliographic Data
Now that I have your attention with that bizarre title, let me explain. Recently I gave a keynote talk at the IATUL Annual Conference in Bolzano, IT. Since I had …
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Feedback, please! DRAFT web archiving metadata best practices!
As you may know, the OCLC Research Library Partnership Web Archiving Metadata Working Group (WAM) has been working for the past year to draft best practices for web archiving metadata—and voila, our draft …
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Use cases for local identifiers
That was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers, initiated by Chew Chiat Naun of Harvard and John Riemer of the University of California, Los Angeles. …
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New skill sets for metadata management
That was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers, initiated by Jennifer Baxmeyer of Princeton, Dawn Hale of Johns Hopkins University and MJ Han of University …
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Some of you may recall that back in 2015 we surveyed our OCLC Research Library Partners to determine their top challenges with web archiving, and the need for guidance on …
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Metadata for archival collections
That was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers, initiated by Roxanne Missingham of Australian National University and Stephen Hearn of the University of Minnesota. Archival …
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Five Years of Revealing How MARC is Used
This October it will be 15 years since I wrote the oft-cited “MARC Must Die” column for Library Journal. At the time I took a lot of heat for that sentiment …
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Data Designed for Discovery
I’ve been talking about linked data for so long that I can’t remember when I first began. I was actually a skeptic at first, as I was struggling to see …
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From Records to Things
My colleague Jean Godby and I co-authored for the December/January 2017 issue of the ASIS&T Bulletin (aka Bulletin of the Association for Information Science and Technology) the article, “From Records …
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Sharing digital collections workflows
That was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers, initiated by Roxanne Missingham of Australian National University and Dawn Hale of Johns Hopkins University. Originally entitled …
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