Our work in this area is focused on setting new expectations for investing in metadata creation and maintenance, modeling attendant workflows and facilitating the discovery of research institutions' resources by users wherever they are. Our goal is to engage RLG partners and OCLC member libraries in adapting descriptive practice to economic realities, user expectations and the requirements of network-level services.
Classify is a FRBR-based prototype designed to support the assignment of classification numbers and subject headings for books, DVDs, CDs, and other types of materials.
FAST is an enumerative facetted subject heading schema derived from the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH). FAST is easier to apply and can be successfully used by non-professionals.
This activity conducts new research to provide evidence to inform possible changes in MARC metadata practices that could lead to better user access to the collective collection.
Develop use case scenarios for academic libraries and scholars, archivists and archival users, and institutional repositories describing their needs to uniquely identify and distinguish persons and organizations, then define the characteristics, functions, and data attributes of a cooperative "Identities Hub".
The goal of the Metadata Schema Transformation project is to develop a simple, web-accessible service that translates metadata records from one publicly defined format into another.
This project attempts to develop tools that advance the state of the art in extracting names from unstructured text and disambiguating them using authority files developed in the library community.
An experimental service to provide authority control for publisher names in bibliographic catalogs.
Identify the user contributions that would enrich the descriptive metadata created by libraries, archives, and museums and the issues that need to be resolved to communicate and share user contributions on the network level.
This project provides Web-based services for controlled vocabularies.
VIAF explores virtually combining the name authority files of national level authority files into a single name authority service.
View rich descriptions for books and other library materials.
WorldCat Identities has a summary page for every name in WorldCat.
Librarians' Toolbox:
