Representing works and their translations in Wikibase
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 …
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What’s changed in linked data implementations in the last three years?
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 …
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What metadata managers expect from and value about the Research Library Partnership
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 …
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Are distributed models for vocabulary maintenance viable?
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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Recommended Data Elements for Describing Archived Web Content
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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Two Reports on Web Archiving: Literature Review and Tools Analysis
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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Descriptive Metadata for Web Archiving: Read the reports!
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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MarcEdit and other tools for batch processing and metadata reconciliation
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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The Curious Case of Balanced/Equilateral Higher Education Institutions and Potential Implications for Academic Libraries
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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What’s in a Name? More Than Meets the Eye, or IPEDS: On the Religious Identity of US Colleges and Universities
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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