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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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Featured Activities

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.

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.

Missing Materials Beta Procedure

Register missing materials within WorldCat and then broadcast to other collecting institutions, the bookseller community and law enforcement agencies.

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News

OCLC Research to Host "Managing Collections in the Networked Environment: New Analytic Approaches" Webinar on 9 September 2010 at 2 p.m. EDT (UTC 18:00)

Attend this free webinar to learn how staff from leading research institutions are putting aggregated library data to work in their daily operations.
26 August 2010

New Report, "Collaboration Contexts: Framing Local, Group and Global Solutions"

This short report provides the scaffolding for the agenda of the upcoming "Yours, Mine, Ours: Leadership Through Collaboration" forum (20-21 September 2010 at the Smithsonian Institution) that will explore local, group and global collaboration contexts in greater depth.
25 August 2010

OCLC Research to Host Global Books Webinar on 16 September 2010 at 12 p.m. EDT (UTC 16:00)

Join Post-Doctoral Researcher Timothy J. Dickey for an overview of an OCLC Research data mining project that looked at WorldCat data to reveal transnational patterns in literary publishing, the preservation of individual countries' literary heritage, and the cultural diversity present in the books.
24 August 2010

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Meet With Us

Yours, Mine, Ours: Leadership Through Collaboration

All are welcome to attend this forum at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
20–21 September 2010

2010 RLG Partnership European Meeting, Moving the Past into the Future: Special Collections in a Digital Age

OCLC Research staff and RLG Partners will convene at Oxford University
Rescheduled from April for 12–13 October 2010

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Read Us

Keeping Research Data Safe (Phase 2)

by Neil Beagrie, Brian Lavoie and Matthew Woolard
April 2010

Research Libraries, Risk and Systemic Change

by James Michalko, Constance Malpas and Arnold Arcolio
March 2010

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