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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

Max Klein Named OCLC Research Wikipedian in Residence

OCLC Research is pleased to announce that Max Klein has been appointed to this paid, three-month position in our San Mateo, California office until the end of August 2012.
22 March 2012

New Report: "A Crosswalk from ONIX Version 3.0 for Books to MARC 21"

This report describes the crosswalk developed at OCLC for mapping the bibliographic elements defined in Version 3.0 of ONIX for Books to MARC 21 with AACR2 encoding.
21 May 2012

New Report: "Lasting Impact: Sustainability of Disciplinary Repositories"

This report offers a quick environmental scan of the repository landscape and then focuses on disciplinary repositories--those subject-based, often researcher-initiated loci for research information.
11 May 2012

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Meet With Us

Libraries Rebound: Embracing Mission, Maximizing Impact

Exclusively for OCLC Research Library Partners
5-6 June 2012
Philadelphia, PA USA

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Read Us

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

Social Metadata for Libraries, Archives, and Museums Part 2: Survey Analysis

by Karen Smith-Yoshimura, Carol Jean Godby, Helice Koffler, Ken Varnum, and Elizabeth Yakel
December 2011

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