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Wikipedia and Libraries
virtual
This presentation and paper highlights how libraries and Wikimedia can collaborate to strengthen shared information access goals and shares success stories from libraires and OCLC working with Wikimedia to connect communities of knowledge.
Topics: Wikimedia
Works in Progress: Research to advance the Building a National Finding Aid Network (NAFAN) project
This webinar will be of interest to library and archive workers, and to those who manage or assess user needs for discovery systems for archival materials.
Topics: Works in Progress, User Research, Archives and Special Collections
Works in Progress Webinar Research Information Management in the United States
In this webinar, lead authors of the forthcoming OCLC Research report series Research Information Management (RIM) in the United States discuss findings from their examination of the RIM practices, goals, stakeholders, and uses prevalent in the decentralized US landscape.
Topics: Research Information Management, Works in Progress
EBLIDA & OCLC Workshop
virtual
As a part of OCLC Research’s work in documenting how libraries as organizations operate, adapt, and evolve, the OCLC Research team met with global library leaders to discuss emerging library models in response to the changes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. They looked at new and evolving practices and policies, possibilities for collaboration, and how these opportunities can benefit their communities into the future.
Topics: New Model Library
On the Way to Library Linked Data
virtual
For more than a decade, OCLC’s Research division has been investigating the tools, standards, workflows, and strategies for making the transition from traditional bibliographic metadata to fully linked data. In this presentation, OCLC Research Software Engineers, Jeff Mixter and Bruce Washburn, will provide a perspective on the promise and potential of library linked data that is framed by OCLC Research’s past work.
Topics: Linked Data
The Future of Library Collaboration
virtual
Join representatives from three regional library membership cooperatives and OCLC, to hear a vibrant discussion about the future of library collaboration in the age of COVID.
Topics: New Model Library
Lighting the Way-- Improving discovery and delivery for archives and special collections
Virtual
This webinar will be of interest to library and archive workers, those who manage and allocate resources to special collections, and those who are considering new modes of meeting facilitation and collaboration.
Topics: Archives and Special Collections, Works in Progress
Wikipedia Shaming: Authority dilemmas across educational stages
Virtual
As Wikipedia reaches maturity, celebrating its 21st birthday this coming year, isn't it time to consider its adulthood? Results from our research of 175 students, which used a simulated set of Google search results to see how students select and judge resources for a research project, suggest we should. Since its birth, students have been generally discouraged from using Wikipedia, but as this collaborative reference tool has evolved, so should our consideration of its value.
Topics: Wikimedia, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion
Bringing IIIF Manifests to life in Wikidata
virtual
In this presentation, research staff discuss and demonstrate a Wikidata user script that, for items that include a IIIF Presentation Manifest URL, will embed the ProjectMirador viewer and load the Manifest JSON so that the images referenced in the Manifest can be viewed in the context of other Wikidata statements about the work.
Topics: IIIF, Wikimedia
Total Cost of Stewardship: Responsible Collection Building in Archives & Special Collections
virtual
Session presented at Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting; Accessioning, Appraisal, and Acquisition Section to introduce the Total Cost of Stewardship publication.