Presentations
Transforming Metadata: Getting ready for AI
San Diego, California, USA
OCLC’s Transforming Metadata series connects you with emerging trends in the world of next-generation metadata standards, services, and platforms. At ALA 2024, our panel explored how Research Library Partnership members are getting ready for AI by setting expectations, building staff confidence, and by developing frameworks to avoid potential risks.
Topics: Transforming Metadata, Metadata, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Transforming Metadata: Valuing metadata in changing environments
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
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
Works in Progress Webinar: Understanding and mitigating bias and racism across collections at Yale University’s museums, libraries, and archives
Learn about the process and interim findings from a multi-year project at Yale University to understand and mitigate issues of bias and racism in collections, metadata, and digitized content.
Topics: Works in Progress, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, 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