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Two people talking, Selena Wilke, Wikimedia Commons, public domain

The OCLC Research Library Partnership recently held the third virtual meeting of its Library Assessment Interest Group, engaging RLP institutions from the US, UK, Australia, and Hong Kong. This interest group accompanies and …

Research Library Partnership / User Behavior Studies and Synthesis / WebJunction

Advice from the Trenches: You’re Not Alone

August 10, 2018September 18, 2020 - by Lynn Silipigni Connaway

Assessment projects can be intimidating and overwhelming. I have these same thoughts each time I begin a new project. I wonder if my data collection tools will be effective in …

Linked Data / Wikimedia

The rise of Wikidata as a linked data source

August 6, 2018February 15, 2024 - by Karen Smith-Yoshimura

As I analyze the responses to the OCLC Research 2018 International Linked Data Survey for Implementers, I’m looking out for significant differences with the responses to the previous, 2015 survey. …

Linked Data

Advice from linked data implementers

July 31, 2018February 15, 2024 - by Karen Smith-Yoshimura

The 2018 International Linked Data Survey for Implementers (announced in this 17 April 2018 HangingTogether blog post) attracted responses from 81 institutions in 20 countries. Together they described 104 linked …

Archives and Special Collections / Infrastructure and Standards Support / Metadata

Terms of use for finding aids: the time to open up has come!

July 25, 2018 - by Merrilee Proffitt

Sometimes projects take a long time to come to fruition. An excellent (and recent) example of this is the Terms of Use and Re-Use for Finding Aid Metadata project which was launched …

Measurement and Behaviors / Research Library Partnership / WebJunction

Evaluating and Sharing Library Impact–with the OCLC Research Library Partnership

May 31, 2018October 12, 2020 - by Rebecca Bryant

The OCLC Research Library Partnership recently held the first virtual meetings of its newly-launched Library Assessment Interest Group, and engaged RLP members from locales worldwide, including the US, Canada, the …

Research Data Management

Mini-symposium on RDM in Leiden

May 9, 2018 - by Titia van der Werf

Last month, OCLC Research organized a mini-symposium on Research Data Management (RDM) at OCLC’s European Headquarters in Leiden. Around twenty RDM experts from SURFsara, DANS, TU-Delft, Leiden University, Wageningen University …

Linked Data / Wikimedia

Representing works and their translations in Wikibase

May 8, 2018February 15, 2024 - by Karen Smith-Yoshimura - 3 Comments.

The cream of the world’s culture and heritage is shared by being translated—it’s how we learn about other cultures and how other cultures learn about us. I’ve long been interested …

Linked Data

What’s changed in linked data implementations in the last three years?

April 17, 2018February 15, 2024 - by Karen Smith-Yoshimura

OCLC Research conducted an “International Linked Data Survey for Implementers” in 2014 and 2015, attracting responses from a total of 90 institutions in 20 countries. In the 2015 survey, 168 …

Linked Data / Metadata / Research Library Partnership

What metadata managers expect from and value about the Research Library Partnership

April 16, 2018February 15, 2024 - by Karen Smith-Yoshimura

That was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers, initiated by Roxanne Missingham of Australian National University, John Riemer of University of California, Los Angeles, and …