Dear Colleagues,
This week's update contains:
·An invitation to attend an OCLC Research Library Partnership Briefing
at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts on 19 April
·Details of our Wikipedian in Residence summer job posting
·Information about our ArchiveGrid Blog
·A reminder that the OCLC Research Library Partnership Roundtable at
ARLIS in Toronto, Ontario takes place this Saturday, 31 March
·A reminder of your exclusive access to a webinar recording and two
reports: /Social Metadata for Libraries, Archives, and Museums. Part 3:
Recommendations and Readings /plus /Social Metadata for Libraries,
Archives, and Museums: Executive Summary/
Best regards,
Melissa
Melissa Renspie
Senior Communications Officer
[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>
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*Join Us for an OCLC Research Library Partnership Briefing in Cambridge,
Massachusetts,*
*Thursday, 19 April 2012 from 9:00-11:30 a.m.*
/Exclusively for OCLC Research Library Partners/
**
We'll use the time together to take a look at some new projects and
initiatives that have recently launched or will be started in the next
few months. Each of these projects represent opportunities for your
institutions to get involved, and in many cases we are looking for your
input, so we'll also have time for group discussion.
We are grateful to our colleagues at MIT Libraries for their willingness
to host this meeting.**The agenda and exact meeting location will be
shared in a follow-up note to confirmed attendees. We have room for 25
participants---so sign up soon and reserve your seat! Partner
institutions should feel free to send more than one representative.
**
·*Please RSVP to Jeanette McNicol
<mailto:[email protected]?subject=RSVP%20for%2019%20April%20Partner%20Briefing%20>
by Friday 13 April*with the names, job titles and e-mail addresses of
everyone from your institution who will attend.**
Director of Partner Relations Nancy Elkington
<http://www.oclc.org/research/people/elkington.htm> and Program Officer
Jennifer Schaffner <http://www.oclc.org/research/people/schaffner.htm>
look forward to meeting staff from many of our old and established
Partners as well as new Partner institutions in the Boston area.**Do you
have questions about your affiliation? About a project or activity? Feel
free to get in touch at any time with any of us
<http://www.oclc.org/research/people/default.htm>---we're always happy
to hear directly from our Partners!
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*OCLC Research Seeks Wikipedian in Residence*
Following in the footsteps of such institutions as the Smithsonian
Archives of American Art and the National Archives and Records
Administration, OCLC Research is hiring a Wikipedian in Residence to
work as a community coordinator and strengthen the relationship between
OCLC, library stakeholders, and the Wikipedia community through a range
of activities, including working with OCLC staff and libraries to help
foster a broader understanding of Wikipedia's practices.
For more information about this position, read Senior Program Officer
Merrilee Proffitt's "Wanted: A Resident Wikipedian" HangingTogether blog
post <http://hangingtogether.org/?p=1623>. To view the job description
or to apply, see the Research Assistant, Wikipedian in Residence job
posting <https://jobs-oclc.icims.com/jobs/2081/job?>. Feel free to share
this with any registered Wikipedians you know who might be interested in
joining us.
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*Check Out the OCLC Research ArchiveGrid Blog*
If you haven't already done so, we encourage you to read the OCLC
Research ArchiveGrid Blog <http://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/blog/>
to learn about new ArchiveGrid collections and contributors as well as
things of general interest with an archives twist. It's available from
the free OCLC Research beta ArchiveGrid
<http://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/> discovery system that provides
access to primary source materials held in archives throughout the
world. Learn more <http://www.oclc.org/research/news/2012-03-27.htm> or
contact Consulting Software Engineer Bruce Washburn
<http://www.oclc.org/research/people/washburn.htm> with questions or
comments.
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*Reminder: The OCLC Research Library Partnership Roundtable at ARLIS
Takes Place This Saturday, 31 March*
Program Officer Dennis Massie
<http://www.oclc.org/research/people/massie.htm> will host the annual
OCLC Research Library Partnership Roundtable
<http://www.oclc.org/research/events/2012-03-31.htm> this Saturday, 31
March 2012 from 12:30-1:30 pm at the 40th annual conference of the Art
Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS)
<http://www.arlisna.org/toronto2012/> in Toronto, Ontario Canada. This
annual Partnership Roundtable at ARLIS is an opportunity for staff at
OCLC Research Library Partnership institutions to come together with
OCLC Research staff to share news, discuss our collective future, and
collaborate an activities that will help take us there. If you're
attending ARLIS we encourage you to join us for this Roundtable. See
complete details <http://www.oclc.org/research/events/2012-03-31.htm>
online or contact Dennis Massie
<http://www.oclc.org/research/people/massie.htm> with questions.
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*Reminder: OCLC Research Library Partners Have Exclusive Access to a
Webinar Recording and Two New Reports:*
*/Social Metadata for Libraries, Archives, and Museums, Part 3:
Recommendations and Readings/*plus*/Executive Summary/ *
One of the benefits you receive as an OCLC Research Library Partner is
exclusive access to Partnership outputs---such as reports, webinars,
podcasts, videos---as well as participatory forums and other events.
We're pleased to provide you with exclusive access to two new OCLC
Research reports, /Social Metadata for Libraries, Archives and Museums,
Part 3: Recommendations and Readings/
<http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/library/2012/2012-01.pdf>(pdf) and
/Social Metadata for Libraries, Archives, and Museums: Executive Summary
<http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/library/2012/2012-02.pdf>/ (pdf).
Metadata helps users locate resources that meet their specific needs.
But metadata also helps us to understand the data we find and helps us
to evaluate what we should spend our time on. Traditionally, staff at
libraries, archives, and museums (LAMs) create metadata for the content
they manage. However, social metadata---content contributed by
users---is evolving as a way to both augment and recontexutalize the
content and metadata created by LAMs.
In our first report
<http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/library/2011/2011-02.pdf>
(pdf), the 21-member RLG Partners Social Metadata Working Group
<http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/aggregating/group.htm>reviewed
76 sites relevant to libraries, archives, and museums that supported
such social media features as tagging, comments, reviews, images,
videos, ratings, recommendations, lists, links to related articles, etc.
In our second report
<http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/library/2011/2011-03.pdf>
(pdf), we analyzed the results from a survey of site managers conducted
in October-November 2009. In this, our third and final report
<http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/library/2012/2012-01.pdf>
(pdf) in the series,we provide recommendations on social metadata
features most relevant to libraries, archives, and museums and an
annotated reading list of the literature we consulted during our
research. We believe it is riskier to do /nothing /and become irrelevant
to our user communities than to /start using/ social media features.
The three reports total over 300 pages. We have thus produced a much
shorter /Social Metadata for Libraries, Archives and Museums: Executive
Summary
<http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/library/2012/2012-02.pdf>
/(pdf)//which includes highlights from all three reports. Links to all
four reports
<http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/library/2012/2012-01r.htm>
are available online.
Also available are the slides and recording of the Social Metadata for
Libraries, Archives and Museums Webinar for OCLC Research Library
Partners that took place on 9 March 2012.
·slides <http://www.oclc.org/research/events/20120309sm4lams.pptx>
(.pptx: 27 MB/80 slides)
·wmv
<http://www5.oclc.org/downloads/research/webinars/20120309sm4lams.wmv>
(132 MB/1 hr. 15 min.)
·mp4
<http://www5.oclc.org/downloads/research/webinars/20120309sm4lams.mp4>
(19.8 MB/1 hr. 15 min.)
·m4v
<http://www5.oclc.org/downloads/research/webinars/20120309sm4lams.m4v>
(7.29 MB/1 hr. 15 min.)
Please note: due to technical difficulties, the webinar recording begins
on the second slide after Karen Smith-Yoshimura defined social metadata.
However, the first slide is available in the webinar slides
<http://www.oclc.org/research/events/20120309sm4lams.pptx>.
*We're sharing this third report, executive summary, slides, and webinar
recording exclusively with Partners until 23 April,*at which time they
will be announced publicly. We encourage you to read the reports and
share your feedback with Program Officer and co-author, Karen
Smith-Yoshimura <mailto:[email protected]>or on the Social Metadata for
LAMs Facebook page <http://www.facebook.com/Social.Metadata.for.LAMs>.
<mailto:[email protected]>
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