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Transforming metadata in changing environments

Transforming Metadata: Valuing metadata in changing environments

By Tracy Bergstrom, Ioana Hulbert, Alice Meadows, Richard Urban

OCLC Research hosted researchers from Ithaka S+R and MoreBrains Cooperative to discuss the challenges and opportunities of communicating the value of metadata throughout complex research lifecycles. Learn about the forces inside and outside the library shaping scholarly communications and metadata ecologies.

Topics: Metadata, Transforming Metadata

Transforming Metadata - ALA 2023

Transforming Metadata - ALA2023

By Inkyung Choi, Heather Moulaison-Sandy, Richard Urban

ALA Annual 2023
Chicago, Il

In this live recording from ALA Annual 2003, Dr. Inkyung Choi, Associate Research Scientist at OCLC, and Dr. Heather Moulaison-Sandy, Director of Graduate Studies and Associate Professor, at the iSchool at the University of Missouri, discuss how we can bring context and user perspectives to subject terms and classification systems.

Topics: Metadata, Transforming Metadata

Next Generation Metadata as a Transformative Change

Next Generation Metadata as a Transformative Change

By Annette Dortmund

Linked Data and International Standards for Cultural Heritage Conference at the KBR, the Royal Library of Belgium

In this session, Dortmund shares lessons learned in OCLC’s work and research to date but will also enumerate a number of remaining challenges that require library engagement to address.

Topics: Linked Data, Metadata

Vision: Linked Data for any Library. Includes image of OCLC logo encircled by arrows indicating libraries and metadata

Linked Data as a Cooperative Effort

By Fiona Carr, Annette Dortmund

M25 Annual Conference 2022, UK
virtual

This session discusses the initiative, its progress, and what it suggests for the future of metadata work in libraries, along with what this might mean in the context of the new agreement signed between OCLC and Jisc which provides an enhanced ability to share and reuse bibliographic metadata across UK higher education institutions.

Topics: Linked Data, Metadata

Metadata  directions

Metadata directions

By Lorcan Dempsey

Eurasian Academic Libraries Conference
virtual

In this virtual presentation, Lorcan Dempsey describes two trends in metadata, Entification and Pluralization, as well as OCLC's work these areas. 

Topics: Metadata

Opening slide of Transitioning to the Next Generation of Metadata presentation

Transitioning to the Next Generation of Metadata

By Titia van der Werf, Ellen Hartman

Days of Knowledge Organization conference 2021
virtual

Titia van der Werf and Ellen Hartman presented on the findings from the RLP Metadata Managers Focus Group discussions (as published in Karen Smith-Yoshimura's Report) and the OCLC Research round table discussions (held in March 2021) on the Next Generation of Metadata.

Topics: Metadata

Metadata is changing – outcome from an EMEA wide discussion around the next generation of metadata.

Metadata is changing – outcome from an EMEA wide discussion around the next generation of metadata.

By Reinhard Altenhöner, Annette Dortmund, Titia van der Werf

After a series of discussions across EMEA, this winter, on the topic of ‘next generation metadata’ and ‘transforming metadata into linked data to improve digital collection discoverability’, this webinar summed up the main findings and shared experiences, in order for participants to gain confidence in planning ahead.

Topics: Metadata

Adding Cyrillic Script to WorldCat

Adding Cyrillic Script to WorldCat

By Jenny Toves and Cynthia Whitacre

Coalition of Librarians for Equity and Access
virtual

This panel discussion seeks to highlight cooperative initiatives and perspectives from information professionals to amplify equity and inclusion in collection building and management.

Topics: Metadata