Presentations
Harnessing the Crowds, Transcription and Other Forms of Crowdsourcing
View this webinar recording to find out more about the National Archives and Records Administration’s History Hub and the Smithsonian’s Transcription Center.
Topics: Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Archives and Special Collections, Works in Progress
Linked Open Data for Digitized Special Collections
This webinar recording 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.
Topics: Linked Data, Works in Progress, Archives and Special Collections
All About OPenn
Watch this recorded 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.
Topics: Open Access, Archives and Special Collections, Works in Progress
A Close Look at Archival Records in MARC
Standards for archival description have been in place for more than thirty years, but what does actual practice look like? In this webinar, OCLC Research Program Officer Jackie Dooley gave an overview of her deep dive into the four million records for archival materials in WorldCat.
Topics: Archives and Special Collections, Works in Progress
Stewarding New York Public Library’s Audio and Moving Image Research Collections into the Future
This session shared New York Public Library’s (NYPL) efforts to assess, prioritize and develop long-term strategies for its audio and moving image (AMI) research collections, which are among the largest and most significant in the world.
Topics: Archives and Special Collections, Works in Progress