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Linked data for metadata operations: An RLP Product Insights session summary

April 10, 2025June 25, 2025 - by Annette Dortmund

In a OCLC RLP Products Insights session, metadata experts met to explore challenges, options and potential future scenarios for linked data in library workflows with an eye to improving metadata operations.

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) / Linked Data / Metadata / Research Library Partnership

Activating URIs in linky MARC: an OCLC RLP discussion summary

March 20, 2025June 25, 2025 - by Annette Dortmund

As libraries work to a linked data future there are challenges in activating URIs within MARC records due to time constraints, tool limitations, and uncertainty about user needs. In a recent OCLC RLP discussion, metadata experts explored the technical, social, and AI-driven aspects of integrating linked data into library workflows.

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Equity, Diversity, Inclusion (EDI) / Linked Data / Metadata

Reimagine descriptive infrastructure: dreaming and enacting change together

May 13, 2024May 15, 2024 - by Merrilee Proffitt

Learn how OCLC has applied principles from Reimagine Descriptive Workflows project to reimagine components of the OCLC linked-data ecosystem.

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Identity management beyond the LC/NACO Authority File

May 24, 2023July 9, 2025 - by Richard Urban - 3 Comments.

The OCLC RLP Metadata Managers Focus Group met in March 2023 to explore new developments in the shift from “authority control” towards “identity management.” Our discussion was facilitated by Charlene Chou …

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Identifiers / Infrastructure and Standards Support / Libraries / Linked Data / Metadata / Research Information Management / Research support

Taking research information to the next level

April 8, 2022April 12, 2022 - by Titia van der Werf

This post contextualizes the emergence of national persistent identifier (PID) roadmaps and points to the interoperability power of PIDs beyond research information management (RIM).

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Archives and Special Collections / Libraries Archives and Museums / Linked Data / Metadata

La próxima generación de metadatos en el patrimonio cultural: continuando la conversación en España

March 8, 2022March 8, 2022 - by Titia van der Werf

Gracias a Francesc García Grimau, OCLC, que amablemente ha proporcionado la versión en español de esta entrada de blog. La versión en inglés está disponible aquí. Esta publicación es parte de una …

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Archives and Special Collections / Libraries Archives and Museums / Linked Data / Metadata

Next generation of metadata in cultural heritage: continuing the conversation in Spain

March 8, 2022March 8, 2022 - by Titia van der Werf

This post is part of a series reporting back from conversations on transitioning to the next generation of metadata in Spain, this time focusing on cultural heritage. (A Spanish translation …

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Identifiers / Libraries Archives and Museums / Linked Data / Metadata

Persistent identifiers in cultural heritage

March 1, 2022March 9, 2022 - by Titia van der Werf

Thanks to Liz Krznarich, Adoption Manager at DataCite & ROR, for contributing this guest blog post. Why do we need persistent identifiers for cultural heritage? This post is part of …

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Data Science / Linked Data / Metadata

How MARC can SPARQL!

February 23, 2022February 22, 2022 - by Jeff Mixter

The following post was written by Jeff Young with contributions from Jeff Mixter. Analyzing MARC data for quality assurance can be a challenging task. This problem becomes exponentially more difficult when …

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Collaboration / Identifiers / Infrastructure and Standards Support / Libraries / Linked Data / Research Information Management

Debates de seguimiento en España: sesión sobre RIM y comunicación científica

November 22, 2021March 9, 2022 - by Titia van der Werf

Informe de las presentaciones en español del perfil de aplicación RDA de REBIUN para el registro de investigadores, los proyectos CRIS y Métricas de Dialnet y el proyecto Hércules.

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