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OCLC cataloging community meeting
FEB 12

OCLC cataloging community meeting

This virtual community event provides an opportunity to hear about important work by community members and learn about OCLC cataloging and metadata services.

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Register for the world’s largest virtual cataloging meeting and be inspired about the future of library cataloging

The OCLC cataloging community meeting connects libraries from around the globe. This free event spotlights key industry trends and offers insight into our roadmaps for cataloging products and services. 

Agenda

Welcome

Hosted by David Whitehair, OCLC

Best practices for queer metadata

Hear from Chloe Misorski and Bri Watson of The Queer Metadata Collective about why and how the group’s document titled “Best Practices for Queer Metadata” was created. This document is the result of two years of work by a group of nearly one hundred knowledge organisers, cataloguers, librarians, archivists, scholars, and information professionals with a concerted interest in improving the metadata treatment of queer people, communities, and items in GLAMS (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums, and Special Collections) and other informational institutions.

Panelists:

  • Chloe Misorski, Cleveland Museum of Art, USA 
  • Bri Watson, University of British Columbia, Canada 

Discussion hosted by Cynthia Whitacre, OCLC

The Mothman properties: Linked data for West Virginia entities

Learn about the significance of WorldCat Entities in OCLC’s linked data strategy and uncover findings from a collaborative project between West Virginia University Libraries and OCLC.  Beginning in 2021, West Virginia University Libraries piloted a repeatable, semi-automated process to create NACO Authority records for West Virginia entities to be reviewed by trained catalogers and eventually submitted through a regional NACO Funnel. Emily Fidelman of West Virginia University explains the pivot to collaborating with OCLC to create these data in WorldCat Entities. She explores how this partnership offered OCLC the opportunity to ingest a discrete dataset using Meridian and test a mapping between MARC Format for Authority Data and the WorldCat ontology, while gaining visibility for regionally significant persons. Furthermore, the project will provide the opportunity to compare NACO metadata behavior in discovery to a linked data equivalent and evaluate how the wider adoption of linked data solutions can benefit library workflows.

Panelists:

  • Anne Washington, OCLC
  • Emily Fidelman, West Virginia University, USA

Deepening connections by turbocharging data with AI

Discover OCLC’s approach toward Artificial Intelligence (AI) and learn how we’re leveraging AI to merge and enrich WorldCat records for better discoverability.

We’ll be joined by Latifa Baali of the American University of Sharjah (Member Merge Program participant) who will talk about her experience of contributing to the machine learning model used to remove duplicate bibliographic records.

OCLC will then share an overview of an enrichment project underway that helps predict subject and classification data, thus supporting cataloger workflows.

Panelists:

  • Bemal Rajapatirana, OCLC
  • Laura Ramsey, OCLC
  • Latifa Baali, American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
  • Chelsea Dalgord, OCLC
  • Inkyung Choi, OCLC

The power of e-holdings automations

Explore how e-holdings automation processes improve data quality, enhance discoverability, and increase efficiency. 

Dmitrijs Martinovs from Sage Publishing will help us explain how the OCLC and Sage partnership promotes interoperability between Sage, WorldCat, and your library's management system, and allows collections to be fully synchronized.   

Panelists:

  • Hank Sway, OCLC
  • Dmitrijs Martinovs, Sage Publishing, United Kingdom

Discussion and close

Hosted by David Whitehair and Chelsea Dalgord, OCLC


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Date

12 February 2025

Time

11:30 AM – 2:00 PM
Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]