On Wednesday, 27 October 2021, OCLC hosted a virtual meeting highlighting OCLC’s recent linked data work and the impact it will have on the library community. During this 1-hour meeting, NYU’s Charlene Chou along with OCLC experts Anne Washington and Laura Ramsey shared insights into OCLC’s Shared entity management infrastructure project.    

Anne Washington, OCLC Product Analyst, began with:

• Latest project updates   
• What we learned from recent testing
• Outcomes from OCLC’s data workshops

Laura Ramsey, OCLC Sr. Metadata Operations Manager, followed with: 

• An overview of our quality composite work
• Insights into OCLC quality scores

Charlene Chou, NYU Head, Knowledge Access, concluded with:

• Challenges that NYU hopes to address with linked data technologies 
• Observations from recently concluded testing
• Perspectives on OCLC’s data modeling
• Skills and competencies that will be important to metadata workers

These presentations were followed by questions and answers, and the session recording was shared via email with all registrants.  

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