2019 OCLC Research Presentations List

Weber provides an overview of the OCLC Research Library Partnership, current areas of focus and investigation, and opportunities for involvement.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Childress and Butterworth provide an update on FAST and its application in CONTENTdm.

Topics: FAST

Huddleston and Mixter provide an overview of IIIF Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), and how OCLC is using them across services, as well as our work in supporting standards with other organizations.

Topics: IIIF

Three researchers and program officers share how OCLC Research develops models to help research libraries (and others) with sensemaking, striving for our models to be useful and to facilitate big picture thinking.

Topics: Research Methods

Watch our recorded discussion of the Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan’s Engaging the Archives program and learn about our research findings on the impact of intensely collaborative teaching on faculty, archivists, and students.

Topics: Works in Progress, Archives and Special Collections

In this panel discussion, practitioners in the field of research information management (RIM) talk about the different motivations that led to implementations of RIM systems on their campuses and how their libraries are leading the way.

Topics: Research Information Management

Learn how students from high school to grad school evaluate the citability and credibility of online resources. Discover the variety of uses students consider when selecting resources and consider new strategies for addressing student needs.

Topics: User Research

Presenting panelists consider: How should (or could) academic librarians assist users who wish to build their scholarly identity (SI)? What services are currently offered? What opportunities, as well as concerns, surround this work? Panelists also provide information for librarian-scholars who manage their own online SI.

Topics: Scholarly Identity

Researchers share results from semi-structured interviews with academic librarians, faculty, and PhD students that explore current practices researchers use to create and manage scholarly identity via online platforms (e.g., ORCID).

Topics: Scholarly Identity

This briefing focused 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

This presentation 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 to coming trends.

Topics: Research Information Management

Lorcan Dempsey's keynote address from ICOLC focuses on consortial achievements and opportunities in scaling and innovation.

Topics: Library Consortia

Lynn Silipigni Connaway provides examples and recommendations of how libraries can increase their credibility and information literacy in their communities, whether an academic library or a public library.

Topics: Information Literacy