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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“Ground Truthing” MARC
Although the thought was revolutionary back in 2002, librarians now widely recognize that our metadata requirements have outgrown the MARC standard. After 50 years of service it’s time to make …
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A story about the spirituality of libraries
At the AMICAL 2016 conference, I heard an inspiring story about the cyclical destruction and revival of libraries. Dr. Richard Hodges, President of the AU of Rome, began his welcome …
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Mapping the Role that Technology Plays in Your Life: The Visitors and Residents App
Do you ever wonder about the role that technology plays in your life and what services and apps you use? OCLC began collaborating on the Digital Visitors and Residents (V&R) …
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Addressing the challenges with organizational identifiers and ISNI
OCLC has just published the report from the 14-member OCLC Research task group on Representing Organizations in ISNI: Addressing the Challenges with Organizational Identifiers and ISNI.* This work originated from …
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