Presentations
User-Centered Assessment: Leveraging What You Know and Filling in the Gaps (video)
Whether you’re trying to decide how to allocate your library’s resources or make the best use of your space, formal assessment tools can guide your decision-making. This webinar covers why formal assessments are more effective than anecdotal data, and will help you learn how to plan effective evaluations.
Topics: User Research, Assessment, WebJunction
Mini-Symposium on Research Data Management
At this mini-symposium in Leiden, guests learned about recent collaborative work done in the area of RDM by OCLC Research and its network partners.
Topics: Research Data Management
The OCLC Mini-Symposium: Research Data Management
At this mini-symposium in Leiden, Rachel Frick shared details of recent collaborative work done in the area of research data management by OCLC Research and its network partners.
Topics: Research Data Management
The Realities of Research Data Management
At this mini-symposium in Leiden, Bryant shared findings from work OCLC Research is doing in the area of research data management with the report series The Realities of Research Data Management.
Topics: Research Data Management
Linked Data Reality Check
Arlington, Virginia (USA)
Get a quick primer on linked data, view ideas for future application, and hear the latest from research libraries and OCLC Research from Andrew Pace.
Topics: Linked Data
Preliminary Findings from the Global Survey on Research Information Management Practices
Brussels (Belgium)
Bryant and fellow researchers provide an introduction of OCLC Research, euroCRIS, and their collaboration on the joint Survey of Research Information Management Practice, including and preliminary survey results and findings.
Topics: Research Information Management
Interoperability
Jasná (Slovakia)
Frick shares trends in collection management, and the role of persistent identifiers in research information management.
Prototyping a Linked Data Platform for Production Cataloging Workflows
San Diego, California (USA)
Cornell University, the University of California, Davis, and Montana State Library have joined OCLC in joint research project prototyping a new suite of linked data services. This unique project uses the out-of-the-box services from Wikibase and a high-quality set of name entities available from FAST, VIAF, and Wikidata to prototype services.
Topics: Linked Data
Applying Research Methods: Investigating the Many Faces of Digital Visitors & Residents
Rome (Italy)
Learn about this project that identified how and why people get information, including the research methods used in the work, and get details about digital literacy findings of the project.
Topics: Digital Visitors and Residents, User Research
IIIF at OCLC
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA)
Mixter provides an overview of standards work at OCLC and the ways OCLC is productionizing IIIF, including its use in CONTENTdm's image and presentation APIs.
Topics: IIIF, Linked Data