June 13, 2012 by Gary Price
A new progress report (June 2012) from the Digital Visitors and Residents project is now available. This research effort comes from a JISC, OCLC Research, and University of North Carolina partnership. It is a longitudinal study which utilizes the Visitors and Residents (V&R) concept as a framework to reassess learners‘ (including staff) engagement with digital […]
May 21, 2012 by Gary Price
Title A Crosswalk from ONIX Version 3.0 for Books to MARC 21 Author Jean Godby, Ph.D. OCLC Research Summary A Crosswalk from ONIX Version 3.0 for Books to MARC 21 describes the crosswalk developed at OCLC for mapping the bibliographic elements defined in Version 3.0 of ONIX for Books to MARC 21 with AACR2 encoding. […]
May 11, 2012 by Gary Price
Title Lasting Impact: Sustainability of Disciplinary Repositories Author Ricky Erway OCLC Research Summary Lasting Impact: Sustainability of Disciplinary Repositories offers a quick environmental scan of the repository landscape and then focuses on disciplinary repositories—those subject-based, often researcher-initiated loci for research information. Seven of these repositories are profiled, with a focus on their varied business models. […]
May 4, 2012 by Gary Price
From Thom Hickey’s Outgoing Blog: The VIAF dataset is now available for public consumption! http://viaf.org/viaf/data describes and links to the files involved and describes how we expect the ODC-By license to be applied. Hickey adds: We are not sure just how popular the files will be, so if the site appears slow, please stop downloading and […]
April 23, 2012 by Gary Price
Part Three and the Executive Summary were released today by OCLC Research. Links to Part One and Part Two of the series are available at the bottom of this post. Part Three Social Metadata for Libraries, Archives, and Museums. Part 3: Recommendations and Readings (78 pages; PDF) by Karen Smith-Yoshimura, OCLC Research and Rose Holley, National […]
March 14, 2012 by Gary Price
Direct to OCLC Research Quarterly (Issue 3 : Second Quarter : October–December 2011) Included in this issue: Lorcan Dempsey discusses the three roles of OCLC Research Roundup of recent publications from OCLC Research Members Direct links to presentations and webcasts from OCLC Research Roundup of recent OCLC Research News Intro/Update About Four OCLC Research Prototypes […]
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February 25, 2012 by Gary Price
Now Available from OCLC Research: Gary Marchionini, Dean and Cary C. Boshamer Professor in the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, spoke at OCLC on 21 February 2012. In this presentation, Dean Marchionini talks about the blurring of boundaries between personal and public digital libraries as […]
February 4, 2012 by Gary Price
Lorcan Dempsey is a Vice President and Chief Strategist at OCLC Research. From a Blurb on the OCLC Web Site In this 43-minute video, Lorcan Dempsey talks about how libraries are changing in the network environment, how they are organizing their services and how they are relating to other services in a Webscale world. He […]
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January 16, 2012 by Gary Price
Direct to Full Text Social Metadata for Libraries, Archives, and Museums. Part 2: Survey Analysis (73 pages; PDF) Second in a Series of Three Reports Authors Karen Smith-Yoshimura, OCLC Research Carol Jean Godby, OCLC Research Helice Koffler, University of Washington Ken Varnum, University of Michigan Elizabeth Yakel, University of Michigan Abstract Metadata helps users locate […]
December 16, 2011 by Gary Price
A presentation by Merrilee Proffit, OCLC Research 46 Slides;.pptx. Proffit’s presentation took place at the RLUK Member’s Meeting on November 25, 2011 in London. Direct to Slides