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
Umbra Search African American History
In this recorded webinar, the University of Minnesota Libraries leads 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.
Topics: Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Works in Progress
Research Information Management at Duke University: A Researcher-centered Approach
In this webinar recording, Duke University Libraries shared 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.
Topics: Research Information Management, Works in Progress
Harnessing the Crowds, Transcription and Other Forms of Crowdsourcing
View this webinar recording to find out more about the National Archives and Records Administration’s History Hub and the Smithsonian’s Transcription Center.
Topics: Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Archives and Special Collections, Works in Progress
Linked Open Data for Digitized Special Collections
This webinar recording 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.
Topics: Linked Data, Works in Progress, Archives and Special Collections
Visualizing Library Services – Case Studies from Ohio State and Yale
This webinar recording 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.
Topics: Works in Progress, Assessment
All About OPenn
Watch this recorded 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.
Topics: Open Access, Archives and Special Collections, Works in Progress
"I Am the Content." How and Why Instructors Discover and Share Course Readings
Watch this recorded webinar to learn how the faculty experience of discovery and its roots in self-identity suggest ways libraries may influence the content selections faculty make for their courses.
Topics: Works in Progress
A Close Look at Archival Records in MARC
Standards for archival description have been in place for more than thirty years, but what does actual practice look like? In this webinar, OCLC Research Program Officer Jackie Dooley gave an overview of her deep dive into the four million records for archival materials in WorldCat.
Topics: Archives and Special Collections, Works in Progress
ILL Cost Calculator
View this webinar recording to learn about our plans for a powerful new ILL Cost Calculator tool that we expect to start beta testing within a few weeks.
Topics: Shared Print, Works in Progress