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That was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers, initiated by Steven Folsom of Cornell University and Stephen Hearn of the University of Minnesota. Metadata practitioners can …
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This is the third and final post reporting on the work of our OCLC Research Library Partnership Web Archiving Working Group. The first post summarizes our work overall and lists some …
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In yesterday’s post I briefly summarized the three reports issued last month by the OCLC Research Library Partnership Web Archiving Metadata Working Group. This post goes into more depth about …
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What’s the most widely-shared, top- priority web archiving issue across the OCLC Research Library Partnership? We conducted a survey two years ago to explore web archiving needs across the Partnership, …
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That was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers, initiated by Jennifer Baxmeyer of Princeton University and Sharon Farnel of the University of Alberta. Many OCLC …
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Our Institutional Directions Model of US Universities and Colleges, which we have developed as part of The University Futures, Library Futures project, offers a novel system of accounting for the …
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In our development of the University Futures, Library Futures working model, we entertained the thought of incorporating a dimension that would distinguish between religious and secular US colleges and universities, and …
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We have been tracking the use of the MARC standard, as evidenced in WorldCat records (now well over 400 million!) for six years. Not only have we reported on how …
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On 19 February, European librarians from eight OCLC Research Library Partnership institutions came together at the University of Edinburgh to discuss scholarly communications challenges, including research data management (RDM), research information …
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Colleges and universities have a long tradition of competing and collaborating with one another. Institutions compete for resources (enrollment, faculty and student talent, grant revenues, etc.) as well as reputation. …
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