2018 OCLC Research Presentations List

Bryant reviews findings from an OCLC Research and euroCRIS joint survey that gathered information from libraries around the world on their research information management/CRIS practices.

Topics: Research Information Management

Watch this webinar to loearn more about Wikidata

Topics: Wikimedia, Works in Progress

Malpas presents the keynote address at OhioLINK library directors meeting.

Topics: Library Trends

Godby shares what OCLC Research is currently doing in the area of data science research and development.

Topics: Metadata

In this webinar, learn how libraries involved in SHARES, the Big Ten Academic Alliance, and the Ivy Plus Libraries have found some solutions to the tricky issues of loaning legacy formats such as a/v, microformat, or curriculum, created some freely available tools, and implemented programs to facilitate the sharing of these rare, and often deeply needed, items.

Topics: SHARES, Works in Progress

Melissa Levine discussed the current efforts to address copyright concerns at scale, including the HathiTrust's Copyright Review Management System, global work in the creation of Rightsstatements.org, and how the Community Standards for 3D Data Preservation's working group on copyright is thinking about more than copyright. 

Topics: Distinguished Seminar Series

OCLC Research Library Partnership (RLP) program officers and researchers provide an overview of three areas of ongoing work of the RLP: a research and learning agenda for archives and special collections; research information management; and the university futures, library futures project.

Topics: Research Agendas, Research Information Management, Library Trends

This one-hour webinar provides an overview of three areas of ongoing work with the Research Library Partnership (RLP).

UC-Davis is one of three institutions piloting a new suite of linked data services using out-of-the-box services from Wikibase and entities available from FAST, VIAF, and Wikidata. Washburn and Stahmer describe how the partnership aims to build new tools and best practices for designing linked data environments for production-level library workflows.

Topics: Linked Data

In this webinar, members of the OCLC Research Library Partnership Web Archiving Metadata Working Group focus on their recently issued recommendations for descriptive metadata that uniquely meet the needs of web content.

Topics: Metadata, Web Archiving, Works in Progress

Dempsey explores concepts of the changing nature of collections. While collections remain central to research library services and mission, the concept of the collection has in fact changed, to the extent that boundaries between collections and other service areas are blurring.

Topics: Collection Management, Library Trends

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

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

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

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

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

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

Frick shares trends in collection management, and the role of persistent identifiers in research information management.

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

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