Data Points

Books as Expressions of Global Cultural Diversity 

This data mining project seeks patterns in the worldwide book publishing industry, as reflective of different cultures’ literary heritage. It stems from UNESCO interest in statistical traces of cultural diversity.

Cloud Library: Cloud-sourcing Shared Research Collections 

This work has modeled requirements for increased institutional reliance on shared print and digital repositories, based on a case study of a single consumer institution and two representative print and digital suppliers. It offers recommendations for broader adoption of interdependent collection management regimes in the cloud.

Deaccession Materials Held in Print and Electronic Form 

This work seeks to establish best practice for the disposition of print journals available in electronic form – i.e. when it is most appropriate to retain print back files on campus, when to store offsite, and when to deaccession entirely.

Define Policy and Infrastructure Requirements for Shared Print 

This work aims to characterize the generic business requirements for managing physical research library collections as a shared network resource.

OhioLINK Collection & Circulation Analysis 

A joint project with the OhioLINK library consortium and OhioLINK’s Collection Building Task Force, which examines bibliographic, holdings, and circulation data from Ohio college and university libraries to better understand the usage patterns of books in academic libraries.

User-Centered Recommender System 

A joint research project of OCLC Research and the Information School, University of Sheffield to investigate the development of recommender systems for the retrieval of journals, books, digital media, video, etc. in a cloud-based multi-institution, international catalog.

Some of the activities listed here have prototypes or demonstrations you can explore and play with. You can find a list of just those hands-on activities in ResearchWorks.

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The OCLC Research Library Partnership has sponsored the activities with this mark.

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