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Leadership, Scaling, OCLC

Leadership, Scaling, OCLC

By Lorcan Dempsey

The 6th North America-China Library Conference
Dublin, OH (USA)

Dempsey describes how scaling and library leadership are areas to explore and the role OCLC plays in these areas.

Topics: Sourcing and Scaling

Wikipedia and OCLC

Wikipedia and OCLC

By Merrilee Proffitt

NFAIS Virtual Workshop
Virtual

Learn all about OCLC's work with Wikpedia and the Wikipedia + Libraries project, which helps library staff leverage Wikipedia in their communities.

Topics: Wikimedia, WorldCat

Non-Latin Script Access: Past, Now, Future

Non-Latin Script Access: Past, Now, Future

By Karen Smith-Yoshimura

2018 ALA Annual Conference & Exhibition
New Orleans, Louisiana (USA)

Smith-Yoshimura details how experimentation with new models of description and access in a linked data environment and OCLC's full implementation of Unicode in WorldCat could lead to dramatic improvements of non-Latin script support in WorldCat in the near future.

Topics: Metadata

The Interoperability Imperative: A Discussion of the Fractured Technical Landscape

The Interoperability Imperative: A Discussion of the Fractured Technical Landscape

By Roy Tennant

2018 ALA Annual Conference & Exhibition
New Orleans, Louisiana (USA)

Changes to the evolving scholarly record are being driven by evolutions in technology. Tennant explores how interoperability is becoming a key priority with efforts to improve workflows for researchers and reduce admin burden, how research data management is growing in importance, and more.

Topics: IIIF

Wikipedia and OCLC

Wikipedia and OCLC

By Merrilee Proffitt

2018 ALA Annual Conference & Exhibition
New Orleans, Louisiana (USA)

Learn how OCLC and the Wikimedia Foundation's Wikipedia Library are partnering to link citations in Wikipedia to millions of library materials represented in WorldCat, and the Wikipedia + Libraries project helping libraries leverage Wikipedia with their communities.

Topics: Wikimedia, WorldCat

Preliminary Findings from the euroCRIS/OCLC Research Survey of Research Information Practices

Preliminary Findings from the euroCRIS/OCLC Research Survey of Research Information Practices

By Rebecca Bryant, Pablo de Castro, Anna Clements, and Michele Mennielli

CRIS2018: 14th International Conference on Current Research Information Systems
Umeå University, Umeå (Sweden)

Bryant reviews findings from an OCLC Research and euroCRIS joint survey that gathered information from libraries around the world on their research information management/CRIS practices.

Topics: Research Information Management

Data Science Research and Development at OCLC

Data Science Research and Development at OCLC

By Jean Godby

Metadata Mixers at the Drexel University Metadata Research Center
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA)

Godby shares what OCLC Research is currently doing in the area of data science research and development.

Topics: Metadata

Sharing Special Collections is an Idea Whose Time Has Come

Sharing Special Collections is an Idea Whose Time Has Come (video)

By Dennis Massie, Heidi Nance, Brian Miller

In this webinar, learn how libraries involved in SHARES, the Big Ten Academic Alliance, and the Ivy Plus Libraries have found some solutions to the tricky issues of loaning legacy formats such as a/v, microformat, or curriculum, created some freely available tools, and implemented programs to facilitate the sharing of these rare, and often deeply needed, items.

Topics: SHARES, Works in Progress