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OCLC Research works with the community to collaboratively identify problems and opportunities, prototype and test solutions, and share findings through publications, presentations and professional interactions.

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Born Digital Special Collections

Enhancing the effective management of born-digital materials as they intersect with special collections and archives practices in research libraries.

experimental.worldcat.org

A place where experimental OCLC projects are shared with the community during their development and testing stages.

WorldCat Identities

Summary pages for each of the 20 million "identities" in WorldCat, which are predominantly authors and people who are the subjects of published titles.

Classify

A FRBR-based prototype designed to support the assignment of classification numbers and subject headings for books, DVDs, CDs, and other types of materials.

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News

DIPIR project presentation at iConference in Toronto, Thursday, 9 February 2001, 1:30 - 3:00 p.m.

Morgan Daniels, Ph.D. candidate at the University of Michigan and member of the DIPIR research team, will present "Managing fixity and fluidity in data repositories."
6 February 2012

New Video: "Reconfiguring Library Boundaries"

In this 43-minute video, Lorcan Dempsey talks about how libraries are changing in the network environment, how they are organizing their services and how they are relating to other services in a Webscale world.
3 February 2012

Social Metadata for Libraries, Archives and Museums Webinar for OCLC Research Library Partners, 9 March 2012 at 9 a.m. PST/12 Noon EST (UTC 17:00)

The recording of this webinar will be made freely available online and in iTunes.
3 February 2012

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Meet With Us

Social Metadata for Libraries, Archives and Musems Webinar   #sm4LAMs

For OCLC Research Library Partners Only
9 March 2012
Online via WebEx

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Read Us

Social Metadata for Libraries, Archives, and Museums Part 1: Site Reviews

by Karen Smith-Yoshimura and Cyndi Shein
October 2011

Taking Stock and Making Hay: Archival Collections Assessment

by Martha O'Hara Conway and Merrilee Proffitt
September 2011

OhioLINK-OCLC Collection and Circulation Analysis Project 2011

by Julia Gammon and Edward T. O'Neill
September 2011

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