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OCLC Research Library Partnership Metadata Managers Focus Group

The Metadata Managers Focus Group (MMFG) is a community of Research Library Partnership (RLP) members who demonstrate leadership in metadata creation and management. The group provides participants with an opportunity to engage with peers, learn from others, and discuss issues of common concern. It also identifies important trends in metadata management that inform RLP programming and OCLC products and services.

What we do

  • Members meet in quarterly round-robin sessions to share experiences and respond to current topics.  
  • Product insight sessions offer opportunities to meet with key OCLC Product leaders.
  • MMFG members interested in taking a deeper dive may join working groups that produce best practices or explore new areas that shape the next-generation of metadata.

 

Metadata Managers Focus Group Events

25 March 2025

Product Insights: WorldCat URI Workflows (UK, Europe, Americas East)

In this 60-minute Metadata Managers Focus Group product insight session, we'll meet with Jeff Mixter, Senior Product Manager, to learn about OCLC URIs in WorldCat records and how to use them in OCLC cataloging applications and WorldCat APIs. [Participants must be current members of the RLP Metadata Managers Focus Group]

Time: 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]

25 March 2025

Product Insights: WorldCat URI Workflows (Americas West)

In this 60-minute Metadata Managers product insight session, we'll meet with Jeff Mixter, Senior Product Manager, to learn about OCLC URIs in WorldCat records and how to use them in OCLC cataloging applications and WorldCat APIs. [Participants must be current members of the RLP Metadata Managers Focus Group]

Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]

25 March 2025

Product Insights: WorldCat URI Workflows (Asia Pacific)

In this 60-minute Metadata Managers product insight session, we'll meet with Jeff Mixter, Senior Product Manager, to learn about OCLC URIs in WorldCat records and how to use them in OCLC cataloging applications and WorldCat APIs. [Participants must be current members of the RLP Metadata Managers Focus Group]

Time: 9:00 PM – 10:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, North America [UTC -4]

 

 

Join Metadata Managers

All OCLC Research Library Partnership (RLP) institutions are invited to join in MMFG activities. To begin receiving MMFG invitations and updates, please subscribe to the Metadata Management Interest Group list. There are no additional fees for participating. 

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Working Groups

Managing AI in Metadata Workflows - A Metadata Managers Working Group

This group explores the specific challenges that metadata managers are facing when considering AI for metadata workflows. Learn more >>

Metadata Managers Planning Group

  • Liz Bodian, Brandeis University
  • Susan Dahl, University of Calgary
  • Chingmy Lam, University of Sydney Library
  • Daricus Larry, University of Arizona
  • Daniel Lovins, Yale University
  • Chloe Misorski, Cleveland Museum of Art
  • Anchalee (Joy) Panigabutra-Roberts, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
  • John Riemer, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Cathy Weng, Princeton University
  • Helen Williams, London School of Economics Library

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Metadata Managers on Hanging Together

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Explore all articles about Metadata Management on our blog.

View the Metadata Managers Posts

2024

Keeping up with next-generation metadata in archives and special collections
Hanging Together | December 17, 2024
by Richard Urban

Getting ready for AI
Hanging Together | June 24, 2024
by Richard Urban

Breaking down succession planning challenges with Metadata Managers
Hanging Together | March 18, 2024 
by Richard Urban

2023

What should metadata managers be learning?
Hanging Together | June 22, 2023
by Richard Urban

Identity management beyond the LC/NACO Authority File
Hanging Together | May 24, 2023
by Richard Urban

Filling the bench: Evolving roles in metadata job descriptions and hiring
Hanging Together | February 15, 2023
by Richard Urban

2022

Balancing the metadata portfolio
Hanging Together | March 15, 2022
by Kathryn Stine

Managing metadata, managing hybridity
Hanging Together | January 25, 2022
by Kathryn Stine

Publications

Transitioning to the Next Generation of Metadata
Transitioning to the Next Generation of Metadata

Transitioning to the Next Generation of Metadata synthesizes six years (2015-2020) of OCLC Research Library Partners Metadata Managers Focus Group discussions and what they may foretell for the “next generation of metadata.”

Past working groups