Transforming Metadata Series
The Transforming Metadata Series connects you with emerging trends in the world of next-generation metadata standards, services, and platforms. At Transforming Metadata events, you’ll hear from OCLC staff and metadata practitioners about how we’re facilitating new ways of working that make libraries and their data central to contemporary research and scholarship.
Future Events
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OnDemand Recordings of Presentations and Events
2024
Transforming Metadata: Getting ready for AI
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
Works in Progress Webinar: LC Labs AI Planning Framework in action—Understand, experiment, and implement AI tools that support catalogers
Hear about what shaped the Artificial Intelligence Planning Framework and how it is being applied at the Library of Congress to explore computational description.
Topics: Works in Progress, Data Science, Research Support, Metadata
2023
Transforming Metadata: Valuing metadata in changing environments
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
Works in Progress Webinar: Building a National Finding Aid Network (NAFAN) research findings—Archivist focus group interviews and EAD analysis
In this webinar, members of the OCLC Research team review findings from focus group interviews with archivists and review overall project recommendations.
Topics: Works in Progress, User Research, Metadata, Archives and Special Collections
Transforming Metadata - ALA2023
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
2022
Transforming Metadata: Improving Access to Federally Funded Research
Presented: 30 November, 2022
Recommendations from the US Office of Science and Technology Policy for updating public access policies for federally funded research put metadata at the center. While the details of specific agency policies are many years off, libraries can begin to prepare by developing strategies for persistent identifiers, good research data management practices, and awareness of impacts on scholarly publishing. In this session, OCLC staff were joined by knowledgeable colleagues who are meeting these challenges head-on. We explored questions related to research data management, metadata that complies with agency guidelines, adoption of persistent identifiers like ORCID, and impacts for university presses.
Transforming Metadata
ALA Annual, July 2022
As metadata creation process and supply chains evolve, new architectures are emerging. At the same time, staff who handle metadata aren’t getting the professional development opportunities they need to keep up with this change. For a long time, linked data enthusiasts could not convince their leadership of the need to prepare for this transformation--but that has changed. In this recording from ALA 2022, OCLC staff and library metadata experts discuss the promise of linked data and what these changes mean for all of us. The panel explores the changes taking place in a number of areas, including the transition to linked data and identifiers, the description of inside-out and facilitated collections, and the evolution of metadata as a service, as well as resulting staffing requirements. The goal? Linking data across isolated systems and services will enhance library users' experiences and allow for efficiencies across the value chain. This transformation is key to achieving important library goals, such as multilingualism to support equity, diversity, and inclusion principles.
Transforming Metadata
ALA Annual - Virtual, July 2022
Library metadata is transforming. Our creation process and supply chains are evolving, and new architectures are emerging. At the same time, the staff who handle metadata aren’t getting the professional development opportunities they need to keep up with this change. For a long time, linked data enthusiasts could not convince their leadership of the need to prepare for this transformation, but that has changed. OCLC and library stakeholders are showing that linking data across isolated systems and services will enhance the user experience and allow for efficiencies across the value chain. This transformation is key to achieving important library goals, such as multilingualism to support equity, diversity, and inclusion principles. In this session, OCLC staff and library metadata experts will discuss the promise of linked data and what these changes mean for all of us. We will explore the changes taking place in a number of areas, including the transition to linked data and identifiers, the description of inside-out and facilitated collections, the evolution of metadata as a service, as well as resulting staffing requirements.
2020
OCLC Linked Data Round Table
Stories from the Front - ALA Mid Winter 2020
A panel of linked data experts describes current activities and recent experiences. Updates were presented on OCLC's initiatives, an LC update on BIBFRAME, and more. Panelists include: Honor Moody, Harvard Library; Sarah Horowitz, Haverford College; and Kevin Ford, Library of Congress.
2019
OCLC Linked Data Round Table
ALA Midwinter 2019
OCLC hosted panel of experts to learn more about their current activities and recent experiences with linked data. Hear updates on OCLC's initiatives, an LC update on BIBFRAME and more.