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Leadership, Scaling, OCLC
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
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
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
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
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
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
Introduction to Wikidata for Librarians
Watch this webinar to loearn more about Wikidata
Topics: Wikimedia, Works in Progress
University Futures, Library Futures: institutional and library directions in OhioLINK
State Library of Ohio
Malpas presents the keynote address at OhioLINK library directors meeting.
Topics: Library Trends
Data Science Research and Development at OCLC
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 (video)
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