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From Authorities to Identifiers—Bridging the Silos
Barcelona, Spain
In this keynote presentation, Karen Smith-Yoshimura explains how library practices are shifting from authority control to using identifiers and how identifiers can disambiguate and control names more expeditiously and make library data more web friendly. She notes the emergence of identity hubs to address identity management across domains, aggregating names from different types of resources.
File: pptx, 12MB Topics: Linked Data
Lessons from Representing Library Metadata in OCLC Research’s Linked Data Wikibase Prototype (video)
Hamburg, Germany
This presentation highlights key lessons from OCLC Research’s Linked Data Wikibase Prototype (“Project Passage”), a 10-month pilot done in 2018 in collaboration with metadata specialists in 16 US libraries.
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File: video, 25 minutes Topics: Linked Data
Ariadne, an innovative approach to scalable semantic embedding (video)
Virtual
The OCLC Research project Ariadne Semantic Embedding is a demonstration of a practical solution to support libraries in this field. Watch 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.
File: video, 56 minutes Topics: Data Science, Semantic Embedding
Build Powerful Networks to Achieve More Together
Helene Blowers, Director, Membership, explains how OCLC uses the power of collaboration to scale learning, scale innovation, and scale capacity, through a library network that allows libraries to collaborate at scale to achieve efficiencies and impact.
File: pdf, 1.4MB Topics: Sourcing and Scaling
What are the entities that matter, and how much should we say about them?
Virtual
This presentation discusses the work of catalogers who participated in OCLC's Project Passage in 2018. It develops the theme of identification of "the entities that matter" and concludes with a brief update on OCLC's post-Passage activities involving resource description in Wikibase.
File: pptx, 8.8MB Topics: Linked Data, Wikimedia
“A little bit of communication can go a long way.” The importance of Library Community Involvement and Relationship Building
Te Puna Libraries, New Zealand
In this presentation, Lynn Silipigni Connaway describes the different roles libraries play, and how libraries are centering themselves in the life of their users in several important ways. She also provides an overview of the OCLC Research Library Partnership.
File: pptx, 92MB Topics: Student Support
Public Libraries Respond to the Opioid Crisis with Their Community
Melbourne, Australia
This update on the project “Public Libraries Respond to the Opioid Crisis with Their Communities” reviews project goals and activities, methodology, and findings.
File: pptx, 27MB
“I like interlibrary loans a lot. I don’t like that three- or four-days turnaround.” Academic Librarian and User Expectations for Accessing Resources and Perceptions of ILL
Melbourne, Australia
The presentation provides a detailed look at recent focus group research to assess resource sharing and interlibrary loan challenges and expectations. The effort aims to influence and guide strategic direction and product development of OCLC delivery services.
File: pptx, 48MB Topics: Resource Sharing
There is a Method to It: Making Meaning in Information Research through a Mix of Paradigms and Methods
Melbourne, Australia
Researchers share the prevalence of survey research, review qualitative and mixed-method studies, and provide real-world examples with Worldcat Discovery search log analysis.
File: pptx, 23MB Topics: Research Methods
Socializing Context in Research Data Reuse
Tampa, Florida, USA
Presenters focus on data reuse and the data reuser's need for contextual information, the sources of context information, and the reasons why this information is needed.
File: pptx, 6MB Topics: Research Data Management