Data Science & Metadata Research
To be discoverable by today’s online users, traditional library data must be transformed. OCLC Research analyzes bibliographic data to derive new meaning, insights, and services for use by library and information seekers. This work includes special projects in metadata enrichment, authorities & identities, linked data, subjects & classification, and data analysis.
Presentations
Wikipedia and OCLC
Virtual
Learn all about OCLC's work with Wikpedia and the Wikipedia + Libraries project, which helps library staff leverage Wikipedia in their communities.
Topics: Wikimedia, WorldCat
Non-Latin Script Access: Past, Now, Future
New Orleans, Louisiana (USA)
Smith-Yoshimura details how experimentation with new models of description and access in a linked data environment and OCLC's full implementation of Unicode in WorldCat could lead to dramatic improvements of non-Latin script support in WorldCat in the near future.
Topics: Metadata
The Interoperability Imperative: A Discussion of the Fractured Technical Landscape
New Orleans, Louisiana (USA)
Changes to the evolving scholarly record are being driven by evolutions in technology. Tennant explores how interoperability is becoming a key priority with efforts to improve workflows for researchers and reduce admin burden, how research data management is growing in importance, and more.
Topics: IIIF
Wikipedia and OCLC
New Orleans, Louisiana (USA)
Learn how OCLC and the Wikimedia Foundation's Wikipedia Library are partnering to link citations in Wikipedia to millions of library materials represented in WorldCat, and the Wikipedia + Libraries project helping libraries leverage Wikipedia with their communities.
Topics: Wikimedia, WorldCat
Prototyping a Linked Data Platform for Production Cataloging Workflows
Palo Alto, California (USA)
UC-Davis is one of three institutions piloting a new suite of linked data services using out-of-the-box services from Wikibase and entities available from FAST, VIAF, and Wikidata. Washburn and Stahmer describe how the partnership aims to build new tools and best practices for designing linked data environments for production-level library workflows.
Topics: Linked Data
Linked Data Reality Check
Arlington, Virginia (USA)
Get a quick primer on linked data, view ideas for future application, and hear the latest from research libraries and OCLC Research from Andrew Pace.
Topics: Linked Data
Prototyping a Linked Data Platform for Production Cataloging Workflows
San Diego, California (USA)
Cornell University, the University of California, Davis, and Montana State Library have joined OCLC in joint research project prototyping a new suite of linked data services. This unique project uses the out-of-the-box services from Wikibase and a high-quality set of name entities available from FAST, VIAF, and Wikidata to prototype services.
Topics: Linked Data
IIIF at OCLC
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA)
Mixter provides an overview of standards work at OCLC and the ways OCLC is productionizing IIIF, including its use in CONTENTdm's image and presentation APIs.
Topics: IIIF, Linked Data