Presentations
Next Generation Metadata as a Transformative Change
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
Linked Data as a Cooperative Effort
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
On the Way to Library Linked Data
virtual
For more than a decade, OCLC’s Research division has been investigating the tools, standards, workflows, and strategies for making the transition from traditional bibliographic metadata to fully linked data. In this presentation, OCLC Research Software Engineers, Jeff Mixter and Bruce Washburn, will provide a perspective on the promise and potential of library linked data that is framed by OCLC Research’s past work.
Topics: Linked Data
Creating, Curating, and Using Cultural Heritage Metadata and Resources in a Linked Data Environment
Discussion of the CONTENTdm Linked Data Pilot Project, a collaborative investigation exploring the creation, curation, and applied use of digital material linked data.
Topics: Linked Data
OCLC Research Update: Convening, understanding, and sharing
virtual
This January 2021 update session includes presentations on Resource Sharing, Realigning to develop a New Model Library, Linked Data Research, and Library Learning during COVID-19
Topics: Resource Sharing, New Model Library, Linked Data
OCLC Linked Data: Research, experimental applications, and shared infrastructure
virtual
This presentation summarized OCLC's findings on the impact of new workflows in the ground-shifting transition from traditional cataloging to linked data platforms, highlighted the integral engagement, participation, and feedback from OCLC members, and attempted to chart a linked data research path for the decade to come.
Recording available on LD4 on YouTube.
Topics: Linked Data
Re-envisioning the fabric of the bibliographic universe: From promise to reality
In this webinar session, we explore the experiences of national and research libraries in linked data exploration, looking at milestones over time.
Topics: Works in Progress, Linked Data
Reimagining digital data curation—New structured data approaches for digital collections (video)
The presenters will provide an overview of a pilot project using CONTENTdm to build, preserve, and showcase their digital collections, discuss the lessons learned so far, and preview the work ahead.
Topics: Linked Data, Works in Progress
OCLC Research Update (video)
In this session, OCLC staff highlighted recent examples of OCLC Research’s collaborative initiatives, presented on a multi-sector collaboration with public libraries in response to the opioid epidemic and discussed OCLC’s current initiatives around operationalizing linked data.
Topics: Opioid Crisis, Linked Data, Research Library Partnership
From Authorities to Identifiers—Bridging the Silos
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.
Topics: Linked Data