Presentations
Transforming Metadata - ALA2023
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
Cross-library learning and knowledge sharing—Metadata Community of Practice at Notre Dame
In this webinar, learn how and why University of Notre Dame developed a Metadata Community of Practice.
Topics: Metadata, Works in Progress
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
Metadata directions
virtual
In this virtual presentation, Lorcan Dempsey describes two trends in metadata, Entification and Pluralization, as well as OCLC's work these areas.
Topics: Metadata
Transitioning to the Next Generation of Metadata
virtual
Titia van der Werf and Ellen Hartman presented on the findings from the RLP Metadata Managers Focus Group discussions (as published in Karen Smith-Yoshimura's Report) and the OCLC Research round table discussions (held in March 2021) on the Next Generation of Metadata.
Topics: Metadata
Metadata is changing – outcome from an EMEA wide discussion around the next generation of metadata.
After a series of discussions across EMEA, this winter, on the topic of ‘next generation metadata’ and ‘transforming metadata into linked data to improve digital collection discoverability’, this webinar summed up the main findings and shared experiences, in order for participants to gain confidence in planning ahead.
Topics: Metadata
Adding Cyrillic Script to WorldCat
virtual
This panel discussion seeks to highlight cooperative initiatives and perspectives from information professionals to amplify equity and inclusion in collection building and management.
Topics: Metadata
A Discussion on Transitioning to the Next Generation of Metadata
This webinar will be of interest to professionals who work with metadata, who are “metadata adjacent,” or who have an interest in what the future of metadata may bring.
Topics: Works in Progress, Metadata
A Discussion on Transitioning to the Next Generation of Metadata
This webinar will be of interest to professionals who work with metadata, who are “metadata adjacent,” or who have an interest in what the future of metadata may bring.
Topics: Works in Progress, Metadata