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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

National finding aid network that is community-driven -sustained, and -governed

Works in Progress Webinar: Building a National Finding Aid Network (NAFAN) research findings—End user survey and interviews

By Chela Scott Weber, Lesley A. Langa

Building a National Finding Aid Network (NAFAN) was an Institute of Museum and Library Services-funded research and demonstration project with the goal of providing inclusive, comprehensive, and persistent access to descriptions of archival collections, or "finding aids." Members of the OCLC Research NAFAN project shared our findings related to end users—those gleaned from survey data as well as from individual semi-structured interviews.

Topics: Works in Progress, User Research

ALA Annual 2023 Research Updated

OCLC Research Update: Partner with Purpose for Greater Impact

By Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Kendra Morgan, Dennis Massie

ALA Annual 2023
Chicago, Il

This presentation shares recent and planned activities from OCLC Research and WebJunction supporting libraries as they seek to increase their reach and impact. This session covers learning tools, strategic frameworks, and updates on ongoing and planned research that can help library staff collaborate with their community, partners, and networks with purpose.

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

NAFAN: A national finding aid network that is community-driven, -sustained, and -governed

Works in Progress Webinar: Building a National Finding Aid Network (NAFAN) research findings—Introduction and project recommendations

By Chela Scott Weber, Lynn Silipigni Connaway

Members of the OCLC Research NAFAN team introduced the goals and methodologies used across this important research project. This session covered the overall recommendations based on the findings of the OCLC Research effort for the NAFAN project.

Topics: Works in Progress, User Research