Tag: OCLC Research
How Do Learners Develop Digital Literacies? (Digital Visitors/Residents Progress Report)
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 […]
New Report from OCLC Research: A Crosswalk from ONIX Version 3.0 for Books to MARC 21
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. […]
New Report from OCLC Research: “Lasting Impact: Sustainability of Disciplinary Repositories”
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. […]
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OCLC Research Makes Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) Dataset Available For Download
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 […]
Final Two Reports in OCLC’s Social Metadata for Libraries, Archives, and Museums Series Released
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 […]
A New Issue of OCLC Research Quarterly is Now Online
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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"Libraries as Read/Write Services", Recording of Gary Marchionini's Distinguished OCLC Seminar Series Presentation Now Online,
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 […]
New Video: Lorcan Dempsey's "Reconfiguring Library Boundaries" Presentation
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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New from OCLC Research: Social Metadata for Libraries, Archives, and Museums, Part 2: Survey Analysis
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 […]
Slide Presentation: OCLC Research Library Partnership Overview
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
