12 February 2025 | Virtual event
During this meeting, library community members from around the globe joined our staff to discuss a variety of pertinent topics. OCLC's product experts also offered insight into our roadmaps for cataloging products and services.
Thank you to all presenters and attendees for their participation.
Session recording, slides, and resources list
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Welcome
Hosted by David Whitehair, OCLC
Best practices for queer metadata
Chloe Misorski and Bri Watson of The Queer Metadata Collective explained 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
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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