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Collections as Data (video)
In this webinar, Principle Investigator Thomas Padilla introduces the concept of collections as data and describes its progressive development across two grant-funded projects.
Topics: Works in Progress
New Ways of Seeing: Understanding Individuals on their Terms
Sydney (Australia)
This presentation provides a deep delve into information behavior research methods, qualitative research, and ethnographic data collection tools and methods.
Topics: Research Methods, User Research
Practices and Patterns in Research Information Management: Findings from a Global Survey (video)
This webinar shares findings from the report “Practices and Patterns in Research Information Management: Findings from a Global Survey,” which provides a comprehensive view of international RIM practices and offers insights for libraries building or considering RIM services.
Topics: Research Information Management, Works in Progress
OCLC Research Update: Emerging Trends
Seattle, WA (USA)
Lynn Silipigni Connaway provides overviews of several active projects, Karen Smith-Yoshimura presents emerging trends in linked data that were revealed in a recent survey, and Betha Gutsche shares the inspirational transformations that small public libraries made to their libraries as part of an IMLS grant-funded project. Watch a recording of the update on YouTube.
Topics: Linked Data, WebJunction
Information Literacy -- Visual Context Matters
Seattle, WA
Led by Lynn Silipigni Connaway: An IMLS-funded research project found that while students feel confident judging the credibility of online resources, they struggle to identify an online document's origin and measure its value due to a lack of visual context—an outcome called “container collapse.”
Topics: User Research, Information Literacy, Student Support
Works in Progress Webinar: Prototype to Production: OCLC Work with the International Image Interoperability Framework (video)
In this webinar, members of the OCLC Research and Product teams discuss the history and strategy behind bringing IIIF support to CONTENTdm, the relationship between OCLC Research and the Product team in building a production service, and the upcoming work to implement the IIIF Discovery API specification at scale and to advance the standard.
Topics: IIIF, Works in Progress
From Prototype to Production: Turning Good Ideas into Useful Library Services
Washington, DC (USA)
This session explores two projects at different points of the prototype-to-production workflow: IIIF (integration of the International Image Interoperability Framework) into a digital discovery environment; and a Linked Data Wikibase prototype (reconciliation tool and editor built to match library metadata workflows) transitioning to production. Temple University presents from the experimenter and practitioner point of view.
Topics: IIIF, Linked Data
Acquiring RDM Services for Your Institution (video)
In the third and final webinar of the three-part Realities of Data Management webinar series, we examine how institutions are making decisions about infrastructures, services, and personnel to support local RDM services.
Topics: Research Data Management, Works in Progress
CONTENTdm IIIF Discovery API
Edinburgh, Scotland (UK)
Jeff Mixter details how OCLC Research built a Change Discovery API for all 14.4 million CONTENTdm items using the current IIIF Change Discovery API v0.2 spec, as well as current and future plans for the service.
Topics: IIIF
Lightening Talk - IIIF R&D at OCLC Research
Edinburgh, Scotland (UK)
This presentation provides an overview of OCLC Research's current work in IIIF, including IIIF Discovery API implementation and IIIF Manifest harvesting.
Topics: IIIF, Linked Data