Combating fake news through “credibility standards”
Unless you’ve been hiding in a remote location with no access to news or social media, you know that the topic of and discussions around “fake news” have been top …
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A Research and Learning Agenda for Archives, Special, and Distinctive Collections
[This post is contributed by our Practitioner Researcher-in-Residence, Chela Scott Weber] Some of you may have seen the recent announcement that I’m working with the good folks here at OCLC …
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Use cases for local identifiers
That was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers, initiated by Chew Chiat Naun of Harvard and John Riemer of the University of California, Los Angeles. …
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Survey on innovation trends and priorities in European research libraries
OCLC Research is currently conducting a survey on innovation trends and priorities in European research libraries. The survey was sent to library directors at 238 institutions in the UK, the Netherlands, …
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New skill sets for metadata management
That was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers, initiated by Jennifer Baxmeyer of Princeton, Dawn Hale of Johns Hopkins University and MJ Han of University …
Read MoreBest Practices for Web Archiving Metadata: Watch This Space!
Some of you may recall that back in 2015 we surveyed our OCLC Research Library Partners to determine their top challenges with web archiving, and the need for guidance on …
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The Realities of Research Data Management: Part One Now Available!
Check out the new OCLC Research report A Tour of the Research Data Management (RDM) Service Space, the first in a four-part series exploring the realities of research data management. …
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Metadata for archival collections
That was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers, initiated by Roxanne Missingham of Australian National University and Stephen Hearn of the University of Minnesota. Archival …
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OCLC Research Library Partners meet in Sydney
Last month representatives from twelve of the fifteen OCLC Research Library Partners in Australia, Hong Kong and New Zealand met together at the University of Sydney. Before the two-hour meeting, …
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Linked data panel at ALIA Information Online 2017 Conference
I had the honor of being invited to participate in a linked data panel at the ALIA (Australian Library and Information Association) Information Online conference held in Sydney last month. …
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