Works in Progress Webinars
Exclusively for OCLC Research Library Partners
What are we working on? What are you working on? OCLC Research Library Partnership members are invited to participate in this webinar series to talk about work happening in OCLC Research – we'd like to present our work informally and get feedback from you, our Partners. We'd also like this to be a venue for Partner institutions. What are you working on that everyone should know about? What input would help you move forward? Attend these webinars to let us know!
Upcoming Webinars
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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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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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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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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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05 November 2019
Works in Progress Webinar: Build or Buy? Making Decisions for Supporting RDM Services
Join this webinar to hear about the development of a local RDM repository at the University of Bath, lessons learned along the way, and factors that have influenced decisions about RDM services.
- Time: 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM Eastern Standard Time, North America [UTC -5]
Past Webinars
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11 September 2019
Works in Progress Webinar: Case Studies of Research Information Management at US Institutions
In this webinar, RIM practitioners from three research-intensive North American institutions will talk about the different motivations that led to implementations of RIM systems on their campuses and how their libraries were involved.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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22 August 2019
Works in Progress Webinar: Scaling Software Preservation and Emulation Services - Introduction to the EaaSI Program of Work
Join this webinar to learn about scaling software preservation and emulation services to enable broader access and use of preserved software and digital objects.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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08 August 2019
Works in Progress Webinar: Democratizing Access to Large Datasets through Shared Infrastructure
Join this webinar to hear about Indiana University's efforts to provide a cloud-based, platform at scale, addressing the strengths, opportunities, and challenges of pursuing a network solution to a shared problem.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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23 July 2019
Works in Progress Webinar: Achieving Privacy in the Age of Analytics: Skills, Strategies, and Ethical Approaches
This webinar will report on the activities from the National Forum on Web Privacy and Web Analytics, which brought together stakeholders from the US and Canada to critically address library values and practices related to web analytics.
- Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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16 July 2019
Works in Progress Webinar: Responding to Researcher Needs Through Continuous Skills Development - A Case Study from the University of Miami
In this webinar, Cameron Riopelle will share how actively develops new skills and knowledge needed to support RDM services in a rapidly evolving ecosystem.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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09 July 2019
Works in Progress Webinar: OCLC RLP SHARES Sharing Special Collections Working Group Update
In this webinar, members of the SHARES Sharing Special Collections Working Group provide an update on the development of a framework of protocols for the interlending of special collections materials among SHARES libraries.
- Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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18 June 2019
Works in Progress Webinar: Case Studies from Project Passage Focusing on Wikidata’s Multilingual Support
This presentation highlights key lessons from the Linked Data Wikibase Prototype regarding Wikidata’s multilingual support. It focuses on two use cases from the upcoming report on the pilot: Chinese descriptions and representing works and their associated translations.
- Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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13 June 2019
Works in Progress Webinar: OCLC RLP SHARES Policy Rethink: Outcomes and Next Steps
In this webinar, representatives of the SHARES resource sharing consortium highlighted outcomes from recently concluded activities aimed at rethinking SHARES policies and values.
- Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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20 May 2019
Works in Progress Webinar: OCLC RLP Collection Building and Operational Impacts Working Group Update
View this webinar for an update on the efforts of the RLP Collection Building and Operational Impacts Working Group.
- Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]
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18 April 2019
Works in Progress Webinar: Engaging the Archives: Collaborating with Faculty for Robust Undergraduate Learning
View our discussion of the Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan’s Engaging the Archives program and learn about 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]
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