Data Science & Metadata Research
To be discoverable by today’s online users, traditional library data must be transformed. OCLC Research analyzes bibliographic data to derive new meaning, insights, and services for use by library and information seekers. This work includes special projects in metadata enrichment, authorities & identities, linked data, subjects & classification, and data analysis.
Publications
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VIAFbot and the Integration of Library Data on Wikipedia
14 October 2013
Maximillian Klein, Alex Kyrios
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FAST (Faceted Application of Subject Terminology) Users: Summary and Case Studies
26 August 2013
Jeffrey Mixter, Eric R. Childress
This report explores the real-world use and implementation of FAST (Faceted Application of Subject Terminology), a simplified subject metadata schema derived from the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH). The study focuses on understanding who uses FAST, how it's applied, and in what types of systems or workflows.
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The Relationship between BIBFRAME and OCLC’s Linked-Data Model of Bibliographic Description: A Working Paper
15 May 2013
Jean Godby
This report describes a proposed alignment between BIBFRAME and a model being explored by OCLC with extensions proposed by the Schema Bib Extend project, a W3Csponsored community group tasked with enhancing Schema.org to the description of library resources.
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A Crosswalk from ONIX Version 3.0 for Books to MARC 21
30 June 2012
Jean Godby
A Crosswalk from ONIX Version 3.0 for Books to MARC 21 describes the crosswalk developed at OCLC for mapping the bibliographic elements defined in Version 3.0 of ONIX for Books to MARC 21 with AACR2 encoding. It is an update to the previous report, Mapping ONIX to MARC, which was published in 2010 and focused on ONIX 2.1.
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Social Metadata for Libraries, Archives and Museums
3 October 2011
Karen Smith-Yoshimura, Cyndi Shein
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Publisher Names in Bibliographic Data: An Experimental Authority File and a Prototype Application
1 October 2011
Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Timothy J. Dickey
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OhioLINK-OCLC Collection and Circulation Analysis Project 2011
21 September 2011
OhioLINK Collection Building Task Force, Julia Gammon, Edward T. O'Neill