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 More Best 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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Five Years of Revealing How MARC is Used
This October it will be 15 years since I wrote the oft-cited “MARC Must Die” column for Library Journal. At the time I took a lot of heat for that sentiment …
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Data Designed for Discovery
I’ve been talking about linked data for so long that I can’t remember when I first began. I was actually a skeptic at first, as I was struggling to see …
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Can we measure and demonstrate the value of sharing collections?
In the spring of 2016, Brandeis University’s interim university librarian Matthew Sheehy and I engaged in some informal back-and-forth about the kinds of questions that can be answered about collection-sharing …
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An increasing role for libraries in research information management
It’s no secret that the research ecosystem has been experiencing rapid change in recent years, driven by complex political, technological, and network influences. One component of this complicated environment is …
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