Presentations
More Accurately Measuring Item Downloads from Institutional Repositories (video)
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. In this webinar, presenters provide a look at the web service called RAMP (Repository Analytics and Metrics Portal), which represents a dramatic improvement in web analytics.
Topics: Research Data Management, Works in Progress
BIBFRAME and OCLC Works: Defining Models and Discovering Evidence
Chicago, Illinois (USA)
Find out how OCLC researchers are acting on a request from the Library of Congress to align OCLC Works with BIBFRAME works within the larger context of two Program for Cooperative Cataloging Task Groups.
Topics: Linked Data
Academic Library Impact: Improving Practice and Essential Areas to Research
Chicago, Illinois (USA)
An OCLC Research team shares their work on exploring how academic libraries demonstrate alignment with and impact on institutional outcomes.
Topics: Student Support, Research Agendas
Communicating Library Impact Beyond Library Walls: Findings from an Action-oriented Research Agenda
Chicago, Illinois (USA)
Learn about a project initiated by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) and led by OCLC Research to identify specific themes and trends related to the current state of library value studies and connect them to student learning and success, create a research agenda, and more.
Topics: Student Support, Research Agendas
FAST Update
Chicago, Illinois (USA)
In this presentation, Childress provides an update on FAST and WorldCat.
Topics: FAST
"Is it a journal title, or what?" Mitigating Microaggressions in Virtual Reference
Chicago, Illinois (USA)
Learn how researchers explored how microaggressions can occur in virtual reference and how librarians can mitigate microaggressions in their practice.
Topics: Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Information Literacy
Challenges of Multilingualism
Lorentz Center, Leiden, (The Netherlands)
Learn from Smith-Yoshimura about challenges of translations in WorldCat, including different writing systems, different transliterations, the pitfalls of metadata, as well as opportunities of linked data.
Topics: Linked Data
Data Designed for Discovery
Bolzano, (Italy)
Tennant provides a research perspective on data designed for discovery and how linked data can solve current issues.
Topics: Linked Data
Best Practices for Descriptive Metadata
London (UK)
Learn about how web archives are being used, the issues with discoverability, and best practices for web archiving descriptive metadata that are community-neutral and standards-neutral.
Topics: Metadata, Web Archiving
The Irish Presence in the Published Record
Athlone, (Ireland)
Dempsey shares OCLC Research's exploration of the national presence of countries in the published record - and in particular the cultural patterns and trends that can be discerned by exploring Ireland in the published record.
Topics: National Presence