Presentations
Preliminary Findings from the euroCRIS/OCLC Research Survey of Research Information Practices
Umeå University, Umeå (Sweden)
Bryant reviews findings from an OCLC Research and euroCRIS joint survey that gathered information from libraries around the world on their research information management/CRIS practices.
Topics: Research Information Management
Introduction to Wikidata for Librarians
Watch this webinar to loearn more about Wikidata
Topics: Wikimedia, Works in Progress
University Futures, Library Futures: institutional and library directions in OhioLINK
State Library of Ohio
Malpas presents the keynote address at OhioLINK library directors meeting.
Topics: Library Trends
Sharing Special Collections is an Idea Whose Time Has Come (video)
In this webinar, learn how libraries involved in SHARES, the Big Ten Academic Alliance, and the Ivy Plus Libraries have found some solutions to the tricky issues of loaning legacy formats such as a/v, microformat, or curriculum, created some freely available tools, and implemented programs to facilitate the sharing of these rare, and often deeply needed, items.
Topics: SHARES, Works in Progress
But what about copyright?
Melissa Levine discussed the current efforts to address copyright concerns at scale, including the HathiTrust's Copyright Review Management System, global work in the creation of Rightsstatements.org, and how the Community Standards for 3D Data Preservation's working group on copyright is thinking about more than copyright.
Topics: Distinguished Seminar Series
Overview of Three Areas of Research
This one-hour webinar provides an overview of three areas of ongoing work with the Research Library Partnership (RLP).
Overview of Three Areas of Research by the OCLC Research Library Partnership
OCLC Research Library Partnership (RLP) program officers and researchers provide an overview of three areas of ongoing work of the RLP: a research and learning agenda for archives and special collections; research information management; and the university futures, library futures project.
Topics: Research Agendas, Research Information Management, Library Trends
Outcomes from the OCLC Research Library Partnership Web Archiving Metadata Working Group (video)
In this webinar, members of the OCLC Research Library Partnership Web Archiving Metadata Working Group focus on their recently issued recommendations for descriptive metadata that uniquely meet the needs of web content.
Topics: Metadata, Web Archiving, Works in Progress
Prototyping a Linked Data Platform for Production Cataloging Workflows
Palo Alto, California (USA)
UC-Davis is one of three institutions piloting a new suite of linked data services using out-of-the-box services from Wikibase and entities available from FAST, VIAF, and Wikidata. Washburn and Stahmer describe how the partnership aims to build new tools and best practices for designing linked data environments for production-level library workflows.
Topics: Linked Data
The Changing Nature of Collections in a Network Environment
Toronto (Canada)
Dempsey explores concepts of the changing nature of collections. While collections remain central to research library services and mission, the concept of the collection has in fact changed, to the extent that boundaries between collections and other service areas are blurring.
Topics: Collection Management, Library Trends