Recordings of Recent OCLC Research Webinars Available Online and in iTunes

DUBLIN, Ohio, USA, 3 August 2010—There are now 42 OCLC Research podcasts and webinars available on the OCLC Research Web site and in iTunes.

The three most recent webinar recordings are:

• From 17 June: RLG Partnership ALA Update Webinar, in which OCLC Research program officers and research scientists gave reports on relevant projects recently completed or underway to enable RLG Parnters to learn about our current work and discover ways to become more engaged in the RLG Partnership.
• From 1 July: OCLC Research Technical Advances for Innovation in Cultural Heritage Institutions Webinar Series: Linked Data Part 2, in which OCLC senior research scientist Ralph LeVan followed up on his first Linked Data webinar to dive deeper beneath the surface and describe the open source technologies he uses to expose records in text databases as Linked Data. He also talked about Java, Servlet Filters, XSLT, and SRU, plus explained how anyone can use his framework to make their database content available as Linked Data.
• From 15 July: OCLC Research Technical Advances for Innovation in Cultural Heritage Institutions Webinar Series: OCLC Web Services, in which OCLC developer network product manager Karen Coombs provided an overview of the Web services offered by OCLC, such as the WorldCat Search API, xISBN, WorldCat Registry and Identities, and demonstrated their real world applications in libraries.

A complete list of webinar recordings is available on the OCLC Research Webinars page and the Technical Advances for Innovation in Cultural Heritage Institutions (TAI CHI) Webinar Series page, as well as in iTunes.

More information

OCLC Research Webinar: RLG Partnership ALA Update
href="http://www.oclc.org/research/events/webinars.htm#rlgu

OCLC Research Webinars
http://www.oclc.org/research/events/webinars.htm

OCLC Research Technical Advances for Innovation in Cultural Heritage Institutions Webinar: Linked Data Part 2
http://www.oclc.org/research/events/taichi.htm#ld2

OCLC Research Technical Advances for Innovation in Cultural Heritage Institutions Webinar: OCLC Web Services
http://www.oclc.org/research/events/taichi.htm#ws

Technical Advances for Innovation in Cultural Heritage Institutions (TAI CHI) Webinar Series
http://www.oclc.org/research/events/taichi.htm

OCLC Research Webinars in iTunes
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=284764834

For more information:

Melissa Renspie
Senior Communications Officer
OCLC Research
melissa_renspie@oclc.org
+1-614-761-5231