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Introducing ArchiveGrid – the sandbox where archivists build something better

September 12, 2011September 3, 2020 - by Jim Michalko - 2 Comments.

Those of you in the archive or research library world may be familiar with ArchiveGrid®, a database and discovery service that grew out of RLG’s Archival Resources service which leveraged …

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Modeling new services / Searching

OCLC Research 2010: Classify and WorldCat Genres

December 24, 2010December 23, 2010 - by Merrilee Proffitt

As 2010 winds down, we’d like to call attention to some of the things we’ve worked on or created this year. You can see a rundown of highlights here. I …

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Infrastructure and Standards Support / Modeling new services / Searching

Breaking Open the ILS Silos

August 20, 2010August 24, 2010 - by Roy Tennant - 1 Comment

In 2007-2008, the Digital Library Federation (DLF) convened a Task Group to recommend standard interfaces for integrating the data and services of the Integrated Library System (ILS) with new applications …

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Infrastructure and Standards Support / Modeling new services / Searching

Next-Gen Harvesting

February 4, 2010February 4, 2010 - by Roy Tennant - 4 Comments.

Metadata harvesting (collecting metadata from others and aggregating it in a collection) is not new. Although there are any number of ways to do this, the OAI-PMH protocol for metadata …

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Infrastructure and Standards Support / Libraries / Libraries Archives and Museums / Modeling new services / Searching / Supporting Scholarship

The Straight Dope on OAIster

September 21, 2009September 21, 2009 - by Roy Tennant - 12 Comments.

As many of you are probably aware, OCLC and the University of Michigan announced last January that OCLC was taking over the OAIster aggregation of metadata harvested from OAI-compliant repositories. …

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Collective Collections / Museums / Searching

Smithsonian Web Strategy, CultureLabel: The Impact of Network Effects

July 31, 2009 - by Günter Waibel

The Smithonian just announced the release of its Web and New Media Strategy v 1.0 [pdf], which has come together swiftly in a process of marvelous openness and inclusion. As …

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Infrastructure and Standards Support / Modeling new services / Renovating Descriptive Practice / Searching / Supporting Scholarship

Repositories and library cultures

March 10, 2009September 18, 2020 - by John MacColl

When is a repository not a repository? When it’s an OPAC? Are OPACs in reality a species of repository, however reluctantly, given that the genus is usually used with a …

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Modeling new services / Searching

Easy Access to Digitized Books

December 11, 2008 - by Roy Tennant

Over on the Developer’s Network blog, where I sometimes blog as well as other colleagues involved with OCLC Grid Services, Xiaoming Liu posted something that I think deserves much wider …

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Digital Preservation / Libraries Archives and Museums / Modeling new services / Searching / Visual Resources

Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa Rocks My World

December 3, 2008October 12, 2020 - by Roy Tennant - 2 Comments.

The National Library of New Zealand (Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa in Maori and an RLG Partner) has obviously been busy. Last week they joined the Flickr Commons, and they …

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Libraries / Searching / Visual Resources

LC-Flickr: updating the catalog

October 22, 2008 - by Günter Waibel - 2 Comments.

In the context of John MacColl’s guest blog on Karen Calhoun’s Metalogue, I was reminded of the stats from the LC-Flickr project pertaining to changes LC made in their own …

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