2019 OCLC Research Presentations List

Learn about results from the OCLC Open Access Survey commissioned by the OCLC Global Council, which received 705 responses from 82 different countries.

Topics: Open Access

Watch this recorded webinar to learn about Deakin Genie, a smartphone based virtual assistant designed to provide relevant information and resources to students via a voice controlled app.

Topics: Works in Progress, Student Support

Ixchel M. Faniel explores the contours of the evolving scholarly record, including stakeholders, stewardship, conscious coordination, and the "inside out library."

Topics: Evolving Scholarly Record, Research Data Management, Research Information Management, User Research

Karen Smith-Yoshimura provides an overview of the "Project Passage" linked data Wikibase prototype and a dive into use cases using the prototype for multilingualism.  

Topics: Linked Data, Metadata

Program officers and researchers share recent OCLC Research into European practices related to linked data, research data management, persistent identifiers, open access, and research information management.

Topics: Linked Data, Research Data Management, Research Information Management, Open Access

Jeff Mixter shares lessons learned during the Linked Data Wikibase Prototype pilot project, including features of MediaWiki and Wikibase and a variety of use cases.

Topics: Linked Data

This presentation explains the concepts and framework of digital visitors and residents and the project of mapping individuals on a spectrum of visitor vs. resident for personal and individual use. Examples from the University of Adelaide are featured as well.

Topics: Digital Visitors and Residents, Research Methods

Lynn Silipigni Connaway makes a case for how the library can support institutional research data management, recent OCLC Research work in this area, as well as the many research methods used in this work.

Topics: Research Data Management, Research Methods

Lynn Silipigni Connaway reviews different forms of qualitative research and mixed research methods using examples from recent research projects.

Topics: Research Methods, User Research

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

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

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

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

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