Wikicite 2018: conference report
On November 27-28 I attended Wikicite in Berkeley, California. This was the third meeting in a series that started in 2016, and the first meeting held in North America. I …
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RLP Research Data Management Interest Group: Identifying and Acting on Incentives When Planning RDM Services
The OCLC Research Library Partnership’s community exploration of research data management (RDM) continued with the second installment of a three-part webinar series based on our Realities of Research Data Management project. …
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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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Is access to open content important to your library? A call for participation in the OCLC survey on open content
Why a survey? Despite the ongoing discussions about the benefits of Open Access, Open Data, Open Government Information, and Open Content more generally, the extent to which such content is …
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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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Happy World Digital Preservation Day! (Research Data Edition)
Today is World Digital Preservation Day (WDPD), a cherished tradition since … 2017. As part of the festivities, a host of individuals with connections to the digital preservation community were …
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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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Creating metadata for equity, diversity, and inclusion
That was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers, initiated by Sharon Farnel of University of Alberta and Jennifer Baxmeyer of Princeton. The impetus for the …
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A few months ago, the OCLC Research Library Partnership launched a community exploration of research data management (RDM) services, featuring a three-part webinar series, an Interest Group, a set of …
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Metadata for audio and videos
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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