From Records to Things
My colleague Jean Godby and I co-authored for the December/January 2017 issue of the ASIS&T Bulletin (aka Bulletin of the Association for Information Science and Technology) the article, “From Records …
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Looking for an easy way to contribute to Wikipedia? Check out #1Lib1Ref
Wikipedia is one of the most ubiquitously used sources on the planet — I know you’ve used it to check out a quick fact or two, and you know your library patrons …
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Wanted: your suggestions, gifts for librarians and archivists
It’s that time again…. The time when we come to you and ask, “What is the perfect gift to give the librarians and archivists in your life?” What have you …
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Sharing digital collections workflows
That was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers, initiated by Roxanne Missingham of Australian National University and Dawn Hale of Johns Hopkins University. Originally entitled …
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Faceted vocabularies
That was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers, initiated by John Riemer of UCLA. Originally entitled “trend away from pre-coordinated subject headings”, this topic was …
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Case studies in RDM capacity acquisition: A new project
Managing research data is an important aspect of the scholarly process, and for many academic libraries, it’s what comes immediately to mind in regard to new roles and responsibilities they …
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Metadata reconciliation
That was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers, initiated by Myung-Ja (MJ) Han of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She wanted to find out …
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Slam bam WAM: Wrangling best practices for web archiving metadata
The OCLC Research Library Partnership Web Archiving Metadata Working Group (WAM, of course) was launched last January and has been working hard–really hard–ever since. Twenty-five members from Partner libraries and archives have …
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More on international linked data survey for implementers
D-Lib Magazine has just published my analysis of the 2015 International Linked Data Survey for Implementers.* I published the results of the 2014 linked data survey in a series of …
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Managing the Collective Collection: research libraries and legal deposit networks in the UK and Ireland
Brian Lavoie and I have just wrapped up a project examining the collective collection of a number of important research libraries in the UK and Ireland. The key findings from …
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