« Many research libraries are taking on a new role to support the research data management needs of their researchers and of their universities. In many cases, there are few resources to support the activity and a single librarian may have only the title or responsibility to get started.…
« That was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers, initiated by Dawn Hale of Johns Hopkins University. For some years now, archives and libraries have been archiving web resources of scholarly or institutional interest to ensure their continuing access and long-term survival. Some websites…
» OCLC partners with global STM and Open Access publishers to make content discoverable through WorldCat Discovery Services (…)
OCLC has signed agreements with leading publishers in Science, Technology, Engineering, Medicine and other subject areas to add metadata for books, e-books, journals, databases and other materials that…
« OCLC has signed agreements with leading publishers in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Business to add metadata for books, e-books, journals, audiovisual materials and databases that will make their content discoverable through WorldCat Discovery Services (…) »
« … Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a global licensing and content solutions organization, announced its award-winning Get It Now academic solution is integrated with OCLC’s WorldShare Interlibrary Loan (ILL) service, the largest ILL network in the world (…) »
« Walk Before You Run: Prerequisites to Linked Data. Presentation by Kenning Arlitsch, Dean, Montana State University
BIBFRAME Update – Why, What, When. Presentation by Sally McCallum, Chief, Network Development/MARC Standards Office, Library of Congress
Making Library Collections Discoverable on the Web. Ted Fons, Executive Director, Data Services and WorldCat…
« … Key highlights:
– Work on the Library of Congress’ BIBFRAME vocabulary has advanced nearly to the point of testing its use for original cataloging, which they will be doing later this year.
– OCLC has published linked data on WorldCat.org using both the Schema.org vocabulary…
« … Many archives hold born-digital content on numerous types of antiquated media and in obsolete formats but lack the equipment or expertise to transfer it into a form that can be more easily managed for processing, preservation, and access.
Webinar speakers addressed a variety of issues and…
« This is the first digital OCLC Annual Report and is titled “Advancing Together.” It includes several videos and slide shows. If you prefer, a PDF version minus some of these features is also available. The digital report is available in six languages.
« OCLC and Elsevier, a leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, are working together to automate the process to keep e-book and e-journal holdings from ScienceDirect, Elsevier’s full-text platform for research literature, up-to-date in WorldCat and library catalogs. The automated process…
