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OCLC RLP Collection Building and Operational Impacts Working Group Update (video)
In this webinar, the Collection Building and Operational Impacts Working Group shares its work to explore the intersections between current collecting and collection management practices; seek ways to better integrate collection management considerations into the collection development process; and bring together colleagues across these important, interdependent functions.
Topics: Collection Management, Works in Progress
OCLC Research Library Partnership: Overview & Opportunities
Richmond, VA (USA)
Weber provides an overview of the OCLC Research Library Partnership, current areas of focus and investigation, and opportunities for involvement.
Why so Few? The Underrepresentation of Women in Technology and Software Development
Sandy Payette, founding CEO of DuraSpace, discusses the alarming gender disparity in computing as a cultural issue in the areas of technology and software development.
Topics: Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Distinguished Seminar Series
An Innovative Approach to Scalable Semantic Embedding
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Semantic search, in addition to keyword based search, is a desirable feature for many digital library systems. Even in the largely structured library data world, there is still a lot of tacit information locked in the free-text fields. Embedding words and texts in compact, semantically meaningful vector spaces allows for computable semantic similarity/relatedness which would make search more intelligent.
Topics: Semantic Embedding
Ideation to Prototype: Turning new ideas into useful services
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Using the Wikibase Linked Data Prototype as an example, Pace will outline 5 simple steps for managing a complex project that will improve your chances for getting from an experiment to a production service.
Topics: Linked Data
OCLC Project Passage User Interface: Assisting the cataloging workflow
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
OCLC’s Project Passage evaluated a federated instance of Wikibase as a platform for cataloging bibliographic entities. This presentation will focus on applications and workflows that were developed during the project to help speed and improve the cataloging user experience.
Topics: Linked Data, Data Science
Taking Advantage of Multilingualism Support in Wikidata
Boston, MA (USA)
View highlights of some key lessons from the OCLC Research Linked Data Wikibase Prototype (“Project Passage”) regarding Wikidata’s multilingualism support.
Topics: Wikimedia, Linked Data
What are the "entities that matter" to this object? Reflections on the OCLC Linked Data Wikibase Pilot)
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
This presentation shares highlights of the soon-to-be-published OCLC research report on Project Passage, OCLC’s pilot study of the metadata creation workflow using the Wikibase platform, which was completed in September 2018.
Topics: Linked Data
Trends and Priorities in Canadian Research Libraries: Results of a CARL-OCLC Survey
Virtual
This presentation focuses on findings from the 2018's Canadian Association of Research Libraries and OCLC Research survey of research libraries in Canada as well as comparative data from complementary surveys conducted by OCLC Research in partnership with the Council of Australian University Libraries and Research Libraries UK.
Topics: Library Trends
Using FAST (Faceted Application of Subject Headings) in CONTENTdm
Columbus, OH (USA)
Childress and Butterworth provide an update on FAST and its application in CONTENTdm.
Topics: FAST