RLUK Conference: OCLC RLP workshop on “open”
This is the first in a series of three blog posts about the 2019 RLUK Conference in London. In March, OCLC staff attended the RLUK Conference in London. As in …
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Knowledge Organization Systems
That was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers, initiated by Daniel Lovins of Yale and Stephen Hearn of the University of Minnesota. As controlled vocabularies …
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Alternatives to Statistics for Measuring Success and Value of Cataloging
That was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers, initiated by Jennifer Baxmeyer of Princeton, Erin Grant of the University of Washington, and John Riemer of …
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Systematic Reviews of Our Metadata
That was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers, initiated by Melanie Wacker of Columbia University, Roxanne Missingham of Australian National University, and Sharon Farnel of …
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OCLC Research Mini-Symposium on Linked Data (Marseille edition)
My colleague Titia van der Werf and I organized a “mini-symposium on Linked Data” as part of the OCLC EMEA (Europe-Middle East-Africa) Regional Council conference held in Marseille on 26 …
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What does successful collaboration look like?
The OCLC Research Library Partnership recently hosted an event on 25 February 2019 focusing on the challenges of leading the 21st century research library. This half-day workshop was held in …
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Initiating an Applied Research Agenda
In January I joined OCLC Research as a Practitioner Researcher in Residence. Over the next few months, I will lead the development of an applied research agenda that charts a …
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Upcoming events: OCLC RLP Research Retreat and ResearchWorks
We are very excited about two upcoming paired events – the Research Retreat (April 23-24) and ResearchWorks: Shaping an Applied Research Agenda (April 25-26). The events will be held in …
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RLP Research Data Management Interest Group: Acquiring RDM Services for Your Institution
The OCLC Research Library Partnership’s community exploration of research data management (RDM) concluded in December with the third and final installment of a three-part webinar series based on our Realities …
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Conference report: A Grand Re-Opening of the Public Domain
On January 25 I attended an event celebrating the “re-opening” of the public domain in the United States. January 1, 2019 marked the end of the 1998 Copyright Term Extension …
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