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With Comics Plus^®, your readers can have unlimited, simultaneous access to thousands of digital comics and manga (and picture books!) from publishers like Andrews McMeel, BOOM! Studios, Dark Horse, Europe Comics, Fantagraphics, Humanoids, Image Comics, Kodansha, Oni Press, Tokyopop, Yen Press, and dozens more. Maximize circulation through book clubs, community reading programs, and other engaging initiatives with no holds, waitlists, or monthly borrowing limits.

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Transforming Metadata: Getting ready for AI

By Merrilee Proffitt, Charlene Chou, Hannah Scates Kettler, Richard J. Urban

29 June 2024

ALA Annual Conference 2024
San Diego, California, USA

OCLC’s Transforming Metadata series connects you with emerging trends in the world of next-generation metadata standards, services, and platforms. At ALA 2024, our panel explored how Research Library Partnership members are getting ready for AI by setting expectations, building staff confidence, and by developing frameworks to avoid potential risks.

Topics: Transforming Metadata, Metadata, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Transforming metadata in changing environments

Transforming Metadata: Valuing metadata in changing environments

By Tracy Bergstrom, Ioana Hulbert, Alice Meadows, Richard Urban

27 September 2023

OCLC Research Transforming Metadata Series
virtual

OCLC Research hosted researchers from Ithaka S+R and MoreBrains Cooperative to discuss the challenges and opportunities of communicating the value of metadata throughout complex research lifecycles. Learn about the forces inside and outside the library shaping scholarly communications and metadata ecologies.

Topics: Metadata, Transforming Metadata

Transforming Metadata - ALA2023

By Inkyung Choi, Heather Moulaison-Sandy, Richard Urban

24 June 2023

ALA Annual 2023
Chicago, Il

In this live recording from ALA Annual 2003, Dr. Inkyung Choi, Associate Research Scientist at OCLC, and Dr. Heather Moulaison-Sandy, Director of Graduate Studies and Associate Professor, at the iSchool at the University of Missouri, discuss how we can bring context and user perspectives to subject terms and classification systems.

Topics: Metadata, Transforming Metadata

Setting expectations and designing Metadata Community of Practice

Cross-library learning and knowledge sharing—Metadata Community of Practice at Notre Dame

By Laura Sill, Peggy Griesinger

15 September 2022

Works in Progress webinar
virtual

In this webinar, learn how and why University of Notre Dame developed a Metadata Community of Practice.

Topics: Metadata, Works in Progress

Next Generation Metadata as a Transformative Change

By Annette Dortmund

13 September 2022

Linked Data and International Standards for Cultural Heritage Conference at the KBR, the Royal Library of Belgium

In this session, Dortmund shares lessons learned in OCLC’s work and research to date but will also enumerate a number of remaining challenges that require library engagement to address.

Topics: Linked Data, Metadata

Linked Data as a Cooperative Effort

By Fiona Carr, Annette Dortmund

11 May 2022

M25 Annual Conference 2022, UK
virtual

This session discusses the initiative, its progress, and what it suggests for the future of metadata work in libraries, along with what this might mean in the context of the new agreement signed between OCLC and Jisc which provides an enhanced ability to share and reuse bibliographic metadata across UK higher education institutions.

Topics: Linked Data, Metadata

Yale Collectioins: Yale Center for British Art, Yale University Art Gallery, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University Library

Works in Progress Webinar: Understanding and mitigating bias and racism across collections at Yale University’s museums, libraries, and archives

By Elizabeth Williams, Robert Sanderson

10 May 2022

Works in Progress webinar
virtual

Learn about the process and interim findings from a multi-year project at Yale University to understand and mitigate issues of bias and racism in collections, metadata, and digitized content.

Topics: Works in Progress, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Metadata

Metadata directions

By Lorcan Dempsey

29 June 2021

Eurasian Academic Libraries Conference
virtual

In this virtual presentation, Lorcan Dempsey describes two trends in metadata, Entification and Pluralization, as well as OCLC's work these areas.

Topics: Metadata

Transitioning to the Next Generation of Metadata

By Titia van der Werf, Ellen Hartman

3 June 2021

Days of Knowledge Organization conference 2021
virtual

Titia van der Werf and Ellen Hartman presented on the findings from the RLP Metadata Managers Focus Group discussions (as published in Karen Smith-Yoshimura's Report) and the OCLC Research round table discussions (held in March 2021) on the Next Generation of Metadata.

Topics: Metadata

Metadata is changing – outcome from an EMEA wide discussion around the next generation of metadata.

By Reinhard Altenhöner, Annette Dortmund, Titia van der Werf

13 April 2021

OCLC EMEARC Library Futures Series
virtual

After a series of discussions across EMEA, this winter, on the topic of ‘next generation metadata’ and ‘transforming metadata into linked data to improve digital collection discoverability’, this webinar summed up the main findings and shared experiences, in order for participants to gain confidence in planning ahead.

Topics: Metadata

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Next Generation Metadata as a Transformative Change

Linked Data as a Cooperative Effort

Works in Progress Webinar: Understanding and mitigating bias and racism across collections at Yale University’s museums, libraries, and archives

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