Webinars
OCLC Research staff and library partners present their work in a webinar format. All webinars are recorded for on-demand viewing.
Please note: all times listed here are in U.S. Eastern Time, appropriate for the date of the event, unless otherwise noted. To convert these times to other time zones, we recommend the WorldClock Time Zone Converter.
Upcoming Webinars
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27 February 2020
Works In Progress Webinar: Cues and Clues—How Students Identify Online Resources in the Face of "Container Collapse"
Learn how students identify the resources they retrieve from online search engine results and discuss the implications of their identification behavior for information literacy.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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10 March 2020
Works in Progress Webinar: Computational Uses of Audiovisual Materials at the Library of Congress
Join this webinar to learn how the LC Labs team at the Library of Congress is currently experimenting with multiple ways to provide computational access to audiovisual materials.
- Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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31 March 2020
Works in Progress Webinar: Accessibility and Digital Collections
This webinar highlights steps to choose and build an accessible digital collections infrastructure, with both commercial software and locally developed software.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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15 April 2020
Works in Progress Webinar: This wasn’t for you yesterday, but it will be tomorrow—Digitization policy to counteract histories of exclusion
Join us to learn about the Louisiana State University Libraries’ approach to writing digitization policy that is informed by the institution’s history of exclusion and gatekeeping.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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29 April 2020
Works in Progress Webinar: Approaches to Processing Audiovisual Archives for Improved Access and Preservation Planning
Join us to learn about the University of Houston Special Collections’ approach to addressing a backlog of under-described archival audiovisual materials to increase accessibility and better advocate and plan for digitization projects.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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13 May 2020
Works in Progress Webinar: Lost in Transcription—Developing workflows for captioning video
Join this webinar to learn about an investigation into captioning tools and potential workflows to address accessibility issues for digital video at scale.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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28 May 2020
Works in Progress Webinar: Mapping Digital Scholarly Communication Infrastructure
Join this webinar to learn about the scope of the infrastructure that supports digital scholarly communications and the financial and organizational strength of the organizations that provide it.
- Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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03 June 2020
Works in Progress Webinar: Using Data to Advocate for the Preservation of Audiovisual Collections
This webinar will explain how data from a four-year project to survey and assess audiovisual collections across the Smithsonian Institution is being used to advance the preservation of those materials on a pan-institutional level.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
Recent Webinars
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05 February 2020
Works In Progress Webinar: Approaches to Preserving Private and Sensitive Data Managed by Digital Repositories
This webinar will focus on an exploration of the feasibility of a distributed digital preservation storage service for private and sensitive data held at libraries and archives in the US.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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30 January 2020
Works in Progress Webinar: Reimagining digital data curation—New structured data approaches for digital collections
Join this webinar to learn about OCLC’s pilot project to improve discoverability of digitized cultural materials, magnify the impact of the work required to describe unique content, and prove the feasibility of a production linked data service.
- Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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14 January 2020
Works in Progress Webinar: Responsible Operations—Shaping a Community Research Agenda for Data Science
This webinar provides an overview of OCLC Research's effort to develop a community research agenda that charts a path for engagement with data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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10 December 2019
Works in Progress Webinar: Radical Access—Leveraging Creative Commons Licenses to Open up Archives
This webinar will explain the significant benefits to researchers and archival repositories of negotiating Creative Commons licenses for archival materials at the point of acquisition.
- Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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21 November 2019
Works in Progress Webinar: Ariadne, an innovative approach to scalable semantic embedding
The OCLC Research project Ariadne Semantic Embedding is a demonstration of a practical solution to support libraries in this field. Join this webinar to see the potential of this scalable semantic embedding method for other applications such as entity disambiguation, citation recommendation, clustering and collection exploration.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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14 November 2019
Works in Progress Webinar: Managing Archival Technical Services with Agile Software Development Methods at Ohio State University Libraries
In this presentation, library staff from Ohio State University Libraries will discuss how implementing Agile helped archival staff to improve productivity overall and increased opportunities for staff members to cross-train, develop skills, and lead projects.
- Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
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31 October 2019
Works in Progress Webinar: Designing, Timing, and Determining the Feasibility of Curatorial Interventions to Support Data Reuse
Join this webinar to learn how data production, sharing, and curation practices facilitate and inhibit data reuse and to discuss the design, timing, and feasibility of curatorial interventions that enable the smooth flow of data throughout the lifecycle.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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15 October 2019
Works in Progress Webinar: Partnering across campus to enhance institutional reputation—a case study from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Join this webinar to hear how UNLV librarians have developed and stewarded effective relationships with other campus stakeholders, and how the library is a valued campus stakeholder in institutional reputation management.
- Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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10 October 2019
Works in Progress Webinar: What Data Reusers Want and How Data Curators Can Use It to Their Advantage
Join this webinar to learn about the different types of context information needed to preserve data’s meaning in ways that support data reuse over time and to discuss when and how to best capture this information over the course of the data’s lifecycle.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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25 September 2019
Works in Progress Webinar: The Shift to Open at University and Research Libraries Worldwide
Join this webinar to learn about the findings of the OCLC survey on “Access to Open Content” and what they tell us about how university and research libraries are making the shift to open.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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