« The OCLC Research linked data Wikibase prototype (“Project Passage”) provided a sandbox in which librarians from 16 US institutions could experiment with creating linked data to describe resources—without requiring knowledge of the technical machinery of linked data. This report provides an overview of the context in…
« Partnership Integrates Reprints Desk’s Article Galaxy Platform with OCLC’s Tipasa Workflow Solution for Simplified Access to Academic Literature. (…) »
« Les efforts de la communauté peuvent « changer la donne », thème de la dernière conférence annuelle de la coopérative mondiale de bibliothèques OCLC (Online computer library center) qui s’est tenue les 26 et 27 février derniers à Marseille. Notamment pour améliorer les services qui profitent à toutes les…
« Le partenariat permettra d’étendre l’utilisation du logiciel ezPAARSE de Couperin hors de France
L’OCLC s’associe au Couperin.org Consortium, l’association française d’établissements qui a développé le logiciel ezPAARSE avec l’Institut de l’information scientifique et technique du CNRS, pour améliorer…
« The Jan 30th OCLC webinar « Practices and Patterns in Research Information Management: Findings from a Global Survey » is now available. (…) »
« Breeding looks at the current vendors offering index-based discovery services, which include EBSCO Information Services, which has developed EBSCO Discovery Service; Ex Libris, now owned by ProQuest, which develops and supports Primo and Summon; and OCLC, which offers WorldCat Discovery Service and its predecessor WorldCat Local. It is notable that…
« University Futures, Library Futures: Aligning library strategies with institutional directions establishes a new framework for understanding the fit between emerging library service paradigms and university types. (…) »
« WorldCat, an aggregate database of library catalogues worldwide, was primarily set up to aid libraries in carrying out their work in areas such as cataloguing or resource sharing. But the information it carries about much of the world’s accumulated published output is also a a unique source of information for…
« A major focus of the OCLC Research Library Partnership is engaging partner intuitions around issues facing libraries. An emerging area of interest is research data management and the role that libraries are and could play in this area. OCLC researchers have been exploring this…