Each year, OCLC Research hosts virtual and in-person events where we exchange information, develop projects, and learn from each other and from outside experts. We engage staff from libraries, archives, and museums, and advance the work of the OCLC Research Library Partnership in regular meetings, feature notable speakers in our Distinguished Seminar Series, and hold Works in Progress Webinars to encourage and facilitate remote participation. Our staff also attend various meetings and conferences where they serve as speakers or panelists and engage with colleagues from around the world. View presentations from these engagements.
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30 October 2018
Works in Progress Webinar: Lessons Learned from a Linked Data Prototype for Managing Bibliographic Data
Join this Works in Progress Webinar to hear about the latest developments with linked data and the future of bibliographic services utilizing Wikibase, FAST, VIAF, and Wikidata.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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08 November 2018
Works in Progress Webinar: Articulating Accessioning
Accessioning Archivists Rachel Searcy from NYU Libraries and Rosemary Davis from the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library will discuss their roles and elaborate on experiences building accessioning programs at their institutions.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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13 November 2018
Works in Progress Webinar: Identifying and Acting on Incentives when Planning RDM Services
This webinar is intended to provide a model for institutions to identify and act on locally relevant incentives, which we believe is essential for optimizing decision making for institutions.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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14 November 2018
Distinguished Seminar Series: “Wikipedia’s gender gap, and what would Hari Seldon do about it?”
Please join us at 11:00 am Eastern on Wednesday, November 14, for the Distinguished Seminar Series featuring Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight, Visiting Scholar at Northeastern University, Women Writers Project.
- Location: Dublin, Ohio
- Venue: OCLC Kilgour Auditorium or virtually
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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19 November 2018
OCLC Research Mini-Symposium on Linked Data
You are cordially invited to attend this mini-symposium in Leiden, the Netherlands, where you can engage in a conversation on current developments in Library Linked Data with OCLC Research and its network partners.
- Location: Leiden, Netherlands
- Venue: OCLC Leiden
- Time: 13:00 – 16:30 Central European Time [UTC +1]
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04 December 2018
Works in Progress Webinar: Acquiring RDM Services for Your Institution
This webinar highlights key choices in acquiring RDM services, with an emphasis on the internal/external sourcing decisions, and the importance of partnerships with stakeholders both on campus and beyond.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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23 January 2019
Works in Progress Webinar: Findings from the euroCRIS/OCLC Research Survey of Research Information Management Practices
Join this webinar to learn about findings from the survey of more than 300 respondents from 40 nations about Research Information Management Practices worldwide.
- Time: 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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12 February 2019
Works in Progress Webinar: Collections as Data
Join this webinar to learn more about the concept of collections as data and hear an update on current work on the Collections as Data: Parts to Whole grant project.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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18 April 2019
Works in Progress Webinar: Engaging the Archives: Collaborating with Faculty for Robust Undergraduate Learning
Please join us as we discuss the Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan’s Engaging the Archives program and our research findings on the impact of intensely collaborative teaching on faculty, archivists, and students.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
Recent Events
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09 October 2018
Works in Progress Webinar: Walk through 2018 International Linked Data Survey for Implementers Responses
Join this Works in Progress Webinar for an interactive session covering responses to the 2018 International Linked Data Survey for Implementers.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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02 October 2018
Works in Progress Webinar: Understanding Institutional Research Data Management (RDM) Services
This webinar introduces the ways in which RDM services are developing at research universities worldwide and offers a model of RDM services to support discussion and decision making.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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27 September 2018
Works in Progress Webinar: Making the Most of Unique Collections: Developing New Roles and Approaches at LSE
This webinar will explain the London School of Economics and Political Science's (LSE) approach to developing an integrated approach toward its collections, creating new roles to unify and lead the development and exploitation of unique and distinctive material across its collections on a thematic basis.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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20 September 2018
Works in Progress Webinar: OCLC Research Library Partnership Update from the Executive Director
Join this webinar specially scheduled for those in Australian time zones for an overview of the Research Library Partnership (RLP) and engage in conversation with RLP Executive Director Rachel L. Frick.
- Time: 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM Pacific Daylight Time, North America [UTC -7]
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20 September 2018
Works in Progress Webinar: OCLC Research Library Partnership Update from the Executive Director
Join us for an overview of the Research Library Partnership (RLP) and engage in conversation with RLP Executive Director Rachel L. Frick.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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05 September 2018
Works in Progress Webinar: The OCLC RLP Special Collections and Archives Work Agenda
Join this webinar specially scheduled for those in Australian time zones to learn about recent OCLC Research work in archives and special collections, and engage in conversation with OCLC Research Library Partnership (RLP) Program Officer Chela Scott Weber about future work in this area.
- Time: 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM Pacific Daylight Time, North America [UTC -7]
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05 September 2018
Works in Progress Webinar: The OCLC RLP Special Collections and Archives Work Agenda
Join this webinar to learn about recent OCLC Research work in archives and special collections, and engage in conversation with OCLC Research Library Partnership (RLP) Program Officer Chela Scott Weber about future work in this area.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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23 August 2018
Works in Progress Webinar: Sustaining (and Delivering) “Open” at the University of Glasgow through Enlighten
Join this webinar to learn more about the University of Glasgow's Open Access journey.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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26 July 2018 - 27 July 2018
Big Data Summer Camp
Library and data science researchers, digital humanists, and software developers are invited to come to OCLC for a two day Big Data Summer Camp to share information and experiences with processing large data sets.
- Location: OCLC, Dublin, Ohio
- Venue: Conference Center at OCLC, Lakeside Room.
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25 June 2018
OCLC Research Update at ALA Annual Meeting
Join OCLC Research, one of the world's leading research groups devoted to challenges facing libraries and archives, for an overview of several active research projects.
- Location: New Orleans, Louisiana
- Venue:
Morial Convention Center
Rm 344 - Time: 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM Central Daylight Time, North America [UTC -5]
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12 June 2018
Works in Progress Webinar: Introduction to Wikidata for Librarians
Learn more about Wikidata during this Works in Progress Webinar
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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30 May 2018
Works in Progress Webinar: Sharing Special Collections Materials via Resource Sharing
Librarians involved in SHARES, the Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA), and the Ivy Plus Libraries will share freely available tools and implemented programs to facilitate the sharing of rare, and often deeply needed, items.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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22 May 2018
Overview of Three Areas of Research by the OCLC Research Library Partnership
This one-hour webinar will provide an overview of three areas of ongoing work with the Research Library Partnership, with time for questions and discussion. The areas are: our new research and learning agenda for archives and special collections, research information management, and the university futures, library futures project.
- Time: 10:00 PM – 11:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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22 May 2018
Distinguished Seminar Series: "But what about copyright?"
In this Distinguished Seminar Series, Melissa Levine, Lead Copyright Officer at the University of Michigan Library, talks about how copyright touches almost all aspects of the work of libraries, museums, and archives, and she discusses current efforts to address copyright-related concerns at scale.
- Location: Dublin, Ohio
- Venue: OCLC Kilgour Auditorium or virtually
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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02 May 2018
Works in Progress Webinar: Outcomes from the OCLC Research Library Partnership Web Archiving Metadata Working Group
In this webinar, four members of the working group focus on the recommendations for descriptive metadata that uniquely meet the needs of web content.
- Venue: Online via Webex
- Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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20 April 2018
OCLC Research Mini-Symposium on Research Data Management
OCLC Researchers and guests at this event in the Netherlands focused on collaborative research data management work.
- Venue: View Recording
- Time: 10:00 – 14:00 Central European [Summer] Time [UTC +2]
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19 February 2018
Research Library Partnership Workshop: The Interoperability Imperative for Libraries
The Interoperability Imperative for Libraries: Supporting Scholarly Services and Workflows
- Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
- Venue: Information Services Meeting Room 14, Floor E, Argyle House 3 Lady Lawson Street Edinburgh EH3 9DR
- Time: 13:00 – 17:00 Greenwich Mean Time [UTC +0]
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12 February 2018
OCLC Research Update at ALA Midwinter Meeting
Learn about recent and upcoming collaborative projects, pilots, and published reports from OCLC Research and its Research Library Partnership and WebJunction programs.
- Location: Denver, Colorado
- Venue:
Colorado Convention Center
Rm 503/504 - Time: 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM Mountain Standard Time, North America [UTC -7]
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12 December 2017
Works in Progress Webinar: Using OCLC Work IDs for Discovery
In this webinar, the presenters reviewed the history of this project, the mechanics of its implementation, and the potential for greater, more effective use of these identifiers.
- Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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05 December 2017
Works in Progress Webinar: Research Information Management and the Role of the Library
This webinar complements the OCLC Research position paper titled 'Research Information Management: Defining RIM and the Library's Role.' In this webinar we will provide an overview of the position paper and discuss the value proposition and role of libraries in RIM, as demonstrated through a specific case study from La Trobe University.
- Time: 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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09 November 2017
Distinguished Seminar Series: "For the Greater (Not) Good (Enough): Open Access and Information Privilege"
Char Booth addressed the concept that open access has had a huge impact on publishing and scholarly communication, yet who you are, what you earn, and how you research still create serious barriers to information availability.
- Location: Dublin, Ohio
- Venue: OCLC Kilgour Auditorium
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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31 October 2017 - 01 November 2017
OCLC Research Library Partnership Meeting—Baltimore, Maryland
The OCLC Research Library Partnership is pleased to hold a meeting in conjunction with the inaugural Americas Regional Council (ARC) Meeting.
- Location: Baltimore, Maryland
- Venue: Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel
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20 October 2017
OCLC SHARES Roundtable
Presenters from Columbia University, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the University of Pennsylvania will speak on resource sharing topics.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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19 October 2017
Works in Progress Webinar: Decolonizing Descriptions: Finding, Naming and Changing the Relationship between Indigenous People, Libraries and Archives
This webinar will examine how two different organizations – the Association for Manitoba Archives and the University of Alberta Libraries – began the processes of examining subject headings and classification schemes as they relate to Indigenous people.
- Time: 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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17 October 2017
Works in Progress Webinar: Decolonizing Descriptions: Finding, Naming and Changing the Relationship between Indigenous People, Libraries and Archives
This webinar will examine how two different organizations – the Association for Manitoba Archives and the University of Alberta Libraries – began the processes of examining subject headings and classification schemes as they relate to Indigenous people.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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21 November 2016
Distinguished Seminar Series: "Welcome to the Library: Success of Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives"
In this presentation, “Welcome to the Library: Success of Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives,” Trevor A. Dawes, Vice Provost for Libraries and Museums and May Morris University Librarian at the University of Delaware, reviews the work of the ALA Task Force for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, which he co-chaired, and also examines the diversity and inclusion efforts at several libraries.
- Location: Dublin, Ohio
- Venue: OCLC Kilgour Auditorium
- Time: 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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19 September 2016
Research Information Management in the US University Enterprise Environment: A Case Study from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
This webinar will be of interest to librarians, institutional reporting and data warehouse professionals, and academic administrators who are eager to more accurately aggregate the scholarly output of their institutions. Join us to learn how University of Minnesota is helping others on campus save time and improve accuracy in faculty activity reporting, academic program review, current awareness and more.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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19 August 2016
Dublin Core at 21
Come hear about the past and future of Dublin Core from the people who were there in the beginning and those who are carrying the work forward, including retired OCLC Research Scientist, Stu Weibel!
- Location: 6600 Kilgour Pl, Dublin, OH 43017
- Venue: OCLC Conference Center Lakeside Room
- Time: 11:30 AM – 7:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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17 August 2016
OCLC Research Update at IFLA WLIC 2016
Hear about the latest work by OCLC Membership and Research including information on emerging approaches to metadata and identifiers and how storytelling can be used to demonstrate how academic research can be translated into library practice.
- Venue: Greater Columbus Convention Center, Room C124 - C125
- Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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12 August 2016
Authority Data on the Web
This 1/2 day event will include an overview of VIAF – a service that relies significantly on the cooperation of libraries from around the world -- and presentations of use cases that illustrate VIAF’s value.
- Location: 6600 Kilgour Pl, Dublin, OH 43017
- Venue: OCLC Conference Center Lakeside Room
- Time: 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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10 August 2016 - 19 August 2016
OCLC Research at IFLA WLIC 2016
Come see us in Columbus!
- Venue: IFLA WLIC 2016
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21 July 2016
Works in Progress Webinar: Harnessing the Crowds, Transcription and Other Forms of Crowdsourcing
This webinar will be of interest to those who are thinking about how to undertake or do more with transcription. View the recording to find out more about the National Archives and Records Administration’s History Hub and the Smithsonian’s Transcription Center.
- Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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27 June 2016
OCLC Research Update at ALA Annual 2016
OCLC Research will present overviews of several active research projects. Following the briefings, audience members will be invited to offer comments and ask questions.
- Venue: ALA Annual 2016
- Time: 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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25 June 2016 - 27 June 2016
OCLC Research staff appearances at ALA Annual
Come see us in Orlando!
- Venue: ALA Annual 2016
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08 June 2016
Works in Progress Webinar: Linked Open Data for Digitized Special Collections
This Webinar will be of interest to catalogers, metadata librarians and curators of digitized special collections seeking models for making their digital collections more visible to Linked Open Data services and better connected to related resources on the Semantic Web.
- Venue: Online via WebEx
- Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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18 May 2016
Works in Progress Webinar: Visualizing Library Services – Case Studies from Ohio State and Yale
This webinar will be of interest to those looking to think about new ways to use data, and those interested in thinking about the impact and future of library services.
- Venue: Online via WebEx
- Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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09 May 2016
Addressing the Challenges with Organizational Identifiers and ISNI
View this webinar to learn about highlights from the report Addressing the Challenges with Organizational Identifiers and ISNI including a new modeling of organizations that others can adapt for their own uses and a case study at UNSW Australia.
- Venue: Online via WebEx
- Time: 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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23 March 2016
Works in Progress Webinar: All About OPenn
Join this webinar to learn about the challenges and solutions of presenting cultural heritage materials as open data, and discover OPenn, a website hosting open data from cultural heritage institutions in the Philadelphia area.
- Venue: Online via WebEx
- Time: 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time, North America [UTC -7]
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22 February 2016
A Context-driven Approach to Data Curation for Reuse Workshop
All who are interested in learning more about the practical approaches and trade-offs to data curation given the needs of reusers and repositories are welcome to attend this free workshop. #oclcresearch #IDCC16
- Location: Amsterdam
- Venue: Mövenpick Hotel, Amsterdam City Centre
- Time: 09:00 – 12:00 Central European Time [UTC +1]
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12 January 2016
Works in Progress Webinar: "I Am the Content." How and Why Instructors Discover and Share Course Readings
Join this webinar to learn how the faculty experience of discovery and its roots in self-identity suggest ways libraries may influence the content selections faculty make for their courses.
- Venue: Online via WebEx
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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11 January 2016
OCLC Research Update at ALA Midwinter 2016
OCLC Research staff presented some of our current noteworthy work at this session.
- Venue: Boston Convention & Exhibition Center, Room 253C
- Time: 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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