Innovation Master Classes: Wednesday 2 March 2011:

• CONTENTdm & The Digital Collection Gateway: New Looks for Discovery and Delivery  (PDF, 3.4M)
  
  Russ Hunt, OCLC; Rafael Roset, Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya (ICC)
• Future Search for Technical Services:
  • Library Metadata Management, changing the game  (PDF, 1M)
    
    Karen Calhoun, OCLC Vice President, Metadata Services
  • WorldCat Quality Program  (PDF, 595K)
    
    Glenn Patton, OCLC Director WorldCat Quality
  • Case study: Looking for more efficient workflows the Dutch experience  (PDF, 506K)
    
    Marion van Brunschot, University of Amsterdam
  • DDC as Linked Data: DNB efforts, other efforts and opportunities  (PDF, 773K)
    
    Lars Svensson, Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
• Webscale Management Services: Manage your library, not your technology  (PDF, 2.7M)
  
  Annette Dortmund, OCLC, Product Manager
• WorldCat Resource Sharing (PDF, 2.6M)
  
  Katie Birch, OCLC, Portfolio Director, Delivery Services;
  
  Poul Erlandsen, Head of Section, Royal Library/Copenhagen University Library, Denmark;
  
  Dr. Berthold Gillitzer, Deputy Head of Department, Bavarian State Library;
  
  Helle Brink, Project Manager, The State and University Library, Denmark

Wednesday 2nd March 2011

• Driving Innovation: Innovation and Mobile technologies in Libraries  (PDF, 1.6M)
  
  Mike Teets, OCLC, Vice President, Innovation Lab
• Breaking Down Barriers:
  • Overview of linked data concepts and OCLC Office of Research activities and plans  (PDF, 404K)
    
    Thom Hickey, OCLC Chief Scientist
  • Concepts of linked data as applied to libraries/cultural heritage and work of W3C Working Group  (PDF, 1.8M)
    
    Emmanuelle Bermes, Bibliotheque Nationale de France
  • OPEN biz: can a topic modelling approach add value to institutional repository content?  (PDF, 521K)
    
    Simon Bains, Digital Library, University of Edinburgh

Thursday 3 March 2011

• OCLC President’s Report  (PDF, 4M)
  
  Jay Jordan, OCLC President and CEO
• OCLC's Open-Platform Strategy  (PDF 2.2M)
  
  Robin Murray, Vice President Global Product Management