putting together, taking apart, figuring out, iterating - as applied to metadata, sewing, cooking, among other pursuits... always learning.
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Just announced: OCLC has released more than 150 million #OCLCworldcat Entities as the foundation of a #linkeddata infrastructure to improve discoverability of scholarly materials on the web.
⤵️ Read more. #OCLCnews https://t.co/ID5Z8YVfh7
Join #OCLCresearch next Tuesday, May 10 for a Works in Progress webinar to learn about @YaleLibrary's multi-year project to understand and mitigate issues of bias and racism in collections, metadata, and digitized content.
⤵️ Register here. https://t.co/8E8FKK4WDX
so encouraged by the just-published Reimagine Descriptive Workflows report (https://t.co/2syZfwiU8x), including the care and community that informed its development, the ongoing work towards repair and inclusion it highlights, and the necessary accountability it calls for
I am so very pleased that our new report is out co-authothed by myself and @rlfrick Reimagine Descriptive Workflows: A Community-informed Agenda for Reparative and Inclusive Descriptive Practice.
https://t.co/77f9BvpUm5
as the scope of metadata work responds to emerging service opportunities, #oclcrlp metadata managers considered adapting valuable, foundational metadata skillsets to meet them - learn more in this new blog post about balancing the metadata portfolio: https://t.co/j0NOOUpOmn
curious about the value of PIDs for cultural heritage materials? this guest post by Liz Krznarich is a great intro! (bonus: includes a link to her slides, presented earlier this year to an OCLC-hosted roundtable of cultural heritage professionals in Spain) https://t.co/X03NnMZ55y
very interesting presentations and discussions on next generation metadata developments in Spain summarized here - read to learn about BNElab's approaches to sharing and encouraging use and applications of cultural heritage metadata beyond the library: https://t.co/tS6Q2Fg3NL
thoughtful reflections from @lorcanD: https://t.co/1YxmjZiBd7 found this so apt and motivating: "We know that libraries are social organizations supporting mental wellness, social cohesion, and personal and community development. Current experience has fore-grounded these roles."
make the most of MARC analysis by making it SPARQL! check out this useful blog post by my colleague @realworldobject demonstrating efficient linked data approaches to querying large aggregated sets of MARC data, and including examples and use cases: https://t.co/tWOm6uN8VC
This Friday! I will be moderating the session on DEI featuring @metadatagoblin talking about Homosaurus, @bluevanm on DEI in public library consortia, and our own Cynthia Whitacre on @OCLC and DEI work. Please join!
OCLC Cataloging Community Meeting https://t.co/Y6iy852squ
metadata work is evolving, and informed in no small part by working away from physical library spaces and collections – this new blog post shares learnings from #oclcrlp metadata managers about the adaptability and ingenuity brought to emerging workflows: https://t.co/TO1zWNvFqh
interested in how metadata in archival finding aids could work better, through consistency, clustering, and connection? this new Hanging Together post describes useful approaches to improve access points: https://t.co/iS24igoRtb
Check out this blog post by @lesleylanga about how archives users find finding aid aggregation websites, the latest in a series about our research on the #NAFAN project https://t.co/nrieubPKd3
Linked data applications will empower users in new ways. Join OCLC's @RLFrick and @NBPutnam and @BritishLibrary's @TorstenReimer on 16 Dec. for a discussion on the opportunities and implications of linked data and entity descriptions.
Register here. ➡️ https://t.co/Xu9G1ORiic
there's much room for improvement when it comes to having useful, effectively granular scholarly monograph publication metadata stick on the way from system to system (and with PIDs, please!) - check out @RebeccaBryant18 and co-authors' @scholarlykitchn guest post for more
Want to know what happens with scholarly monograph metadata and why getting it into RIM systems is so hard? Read this. https://t.co/FOXByvmcZX @charleswatkinso@Rwelzenb
thrilled to have joined OCLC, where I'm among excellent colleagues and looking forward to engaging with libraries to further the utility and relevance of metadata!
Welcome Kathryn Stine / @contexturing, Senior Program & Engagement Officer, Data Science & Next-generation Metadata, OCLC Research. We are so happy to have you on board!! https://t.co/73VAOpNLpu
excited to share https://t.co/BjiR9xBf44 at #iipcWAC18 today with @PeterBroadwell! talking first about developing the Cobweb platform for collaborative collection development for #webarchiving followed by a tutorial on putting the platform into practice!
looking forward to talking about how Cobweb supports the social contexts of #webarchiving this afternoon at #DLFforum! learn more about #cobwebarchive at the #t6b session and here: https://t.co/Cx2aBh6JWp