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Slam bam WAM: Wrangling best practices for web archiving metadata

August 23, 2016September 4, 2020 - by Jackie Dooley

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 …

Linked Data

Managing the Collective Collection: research libraries and legal deposit networks in the UK and Ireland

June 16, 2016September 9, 2020 - by Constance Malpas

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 …

Infrastructure and Standards Support / Linked Data / Metadata

“Ground Truthing” MARC

June 6, 2016August 25, 2020 - by Roy Tennant - 2 Comments.

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 …

Libraries

A story about the spirituality of libraries

May 31, 2016May 31, 2016 - by Titia van der Werf

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 …

User Behavior Studies and Synthesis

Mapping the Role that Technology Plays in Your Life: The Visitors and Residents App

May 10, 2016 - by Lynn Silipigni Connaway - 1 Comment

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) …

Identifiers

Addressing the challenges with organizational identifiers and ISNI

May 3, 2016May 3, 2016 - by Karen Smith-Yoshimura

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 …

Identifiers / Metadata / Research Information Management

Metadata for research data management

April 18, 2016February 15, 2024 - by Karen Smith-Yoshimura - 2 Comments.

That was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers, initiated by John Riemer of UCLA. With increasing expectations that research data creation made possible through grant …

Libraries

My first library job

April 15, 2016 - by Merrilee Proffitt

My first library “job” was as “volunteen” for the summer reading program at the Garden Grove Chapman Branch of the Orange County Public Library. I did this during the …

Identifiers / Metadata

Impact of identifiers on authority workflows

March 22, 2016February 15, 2024 - by Karen Smith-Yoshimura - 2 Comments.

That was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers, initiated by Chew Chiat Naun of Cornell University. Using identifiers now to point to “things” rather than …