Works in Progress Webinars
Exclusively for OCLC Research Library Partners
What are we working on? What are you working on? OCLC Research Library Partnership members are invited to participate in this webinar series to talk about work happening in OCLC Research – we'd like to present our work informally and get feedback from you, our Partners. We'd also like this to be a venue for Partner institutions. What are you working on that everyone should know about? What input would help you move forward? Attend these webinars to let us know!
Past Webinars
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03 October 2017
Works in Progress Webinar: HathiTrust and Shared Print
Shared Print Program Officer Lizanne Payne describes the current status and future plans of HathiTrust.
- Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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19 September 2017
Works in Progress Webinar: Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Justice Work in the MIT Libraries’ Collections Directorate
This webinar will explore how MIT Libraries have implemented the recommendations of its Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Justice Task Force, with a focus on the work of the Scholarly Communication and Collections Strategy department.
- Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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25 July 2017
Works in Progress Webinar: Policy Realities in Research Data Management
This webinar complements the four-part series of reports by OCLC Research titled The Realities of Research Data Management, in which findings are based on case studies of four institutions, including the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Wageningen University & Research.
- Time: 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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06 July 2017
Works in Progress Webinar: More Accurately Measuring Item Downloads from Institutional Repositories
Researchers from Montana State University, OCLC Research, the University of New Mexico and the Association of Research Libraries have developed a new web service that accurately measures item downloads from institutional repositories (IR).
- Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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14 February 2017
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Umbra Search African American History
Join the University of Minnesota Libraries for a discussion of Umbra Search African American History (www.umbrasearch.org), an effort to facilitate access to African American history through a website and search widget; digitization of over 500,000 items; and workshops and public forums locally and around the country about access to culturally diverse collections.
- Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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31 January 2017
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Research Information Management at Duke University: A Researcher-centered Approach
In this webinar presentation, Duke University Libraries will share how they have led campus initiatives to aggregate and manage campus research information to support open access, help researchers build their reputations, archive Duke scholarship, and enable expertise discovery. This webinar will be of interest to scholarly communications librarians, library administrators, and communications specialists. Given the enterprise nature of research information management, it will also be relevant to other institutional stakeholders including deans, research administrators, and IT professionals.
- Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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21 July 2016
Works in Progress Webinar: Harnessing the Crowds, Transcription and Other Forms of Crowdsourcing
This webinar will be of interest to those who are thinking about how to undertake or do more with transcription. View the recording to find out more about the National Archives and Records Administration’s History Hub and the Smithsonian’s Transcription Center.
- Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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08 June 2016
Works in Progress Webinar: Linked Open Data for Digitized Special Collections
This Webinar will be of interest to catalogers, metadata librarians and curators of digitized special collections seeking models for making their digital collections more visible to Linked Open Data services and better connected to related resources on the Semantic Web.
- Venue: Online via WebEx
- Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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18 May 2016
Works in Progress Webinar: Visualizing Library Services – Case Studies from Ohio State and Yale
This webinar will be of interest to those looking to think about new ways to use data, and those interested in thinking about the impact and future of library services.
- Venue: Online via WebEx
- Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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23 March 2016
Works in Progress Webinar: All About OPenn
Join this webinar to learn about the challenges and solutions of presenting cultural heritage materials as open data, and discover OPenn, a website hosting open data from cultural heritage institutions in the Philadelphia area.
- Venue: Online via WebEx
- Time: 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time, North America [UTC -7]
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