This update includes:

·        Notice of a new report, The Evolving Scholarly Record

·        An invitation to participate in the OCLC Research Library Partnership 
workshop and meeting 10-12 June online

·        An overview of our new multilingual bibliographic structure activity

·        A link to Issue 12 of OCLC Research Quarterly Highlights

 

Melissa Renspie

Senior Communications Officer

OCLC Research <http://www.oclc.org/research> 

[email protected]

@mrenspie  <https://twitter.com/mrenspie>  

Read our latest report, The Evolving Scholarly Record 
<http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/library/2014/oclcresearch-evolving-scholarly-record-2014-overview.html>
 

 

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OCLC Research publishes framework to help organize and drive discussions about 
evolving scholarly record

 

#scholrec

 

Our new report, The Evolving Scholarly Record 
<http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/library/2014/oclcresearch-evolving-scholarly-record-2014-overview.html>
 , written by Brian Lavoie <http://www.oclc.org/research/people/lavoie.html> , 
Eric Childress <http://www.oclc.org/research/people/childress.html> , Ricky 
Erway <http://www.oclc.org/research/people/erway.html> , Ixchel Faniel 
<http://www.oclc.org/research/people/faniel.html> , Constance Malpas 
<http://www.oclc.org/research/people/malpas.html> , Jennifer Schaffner 
<http://www.oclc.org/research/people/schaffner.html> , and Titia van der Werf 
<http://www.oclc.org/research/people/vanderwerf.html> , provides a high-level 
view of the categories of material the scholarly record potentially 
encompasses, as well as the key stakeholder roles associated with the creation, 
management, and use of the scholarly record. This conceptualization of the 
scholarly record and its stakeholder ecosystem can serve as a common point of 
reference in discussions within and across domains, and help cultivate the 
shared understanding and collaborative relationships needed to identify, 
collect, and make accessible the wide range of materials the scholarly record 
is evolving to include.

 

See the report publication announcement 
<http://www.oclc.org/research/news/2014/06-05.html>  and overview 
<http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/library/2014/oclcresearch-evolving-scholarly-record-2014-overview.html>
  for key highlights and to download the report. 

 

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OCLC Research Library Partners invited to participate in Libraries and Research 
meeting live online 10-12 June

 

#esrworkshop #orlp

 

OCLC Research Library Partners who are unable to attend our Evolving Scholarly 
Record workshop and  Libraries and Research: Supporting Change/Changing Support 
<http://www.oclc.org/research/events/2014/06-10.html>  meeting in Amsterdam 
10-12 June in person are invited to participate live 
<http://www.oclc.org/research/events/2014/06-10/livestream.html>  online in:

·        the Evolving Scholarly Record workshop on Tuesday, 10 June from 
10:00-12:45 CEST,

·        the full-day meeting on Wednesday, 11 June from 9:00-16:30 CEST, and

·        the half-day meeting on Thursday morning, 12 June from 9:00-12:00 CEST.

 

See the live stream page 
<http://www.oclc.org/research/events/2014/06-10/livestream.html>  for a 
detailed broadcast agenda. Please note, all times listed are Central European 
Summer Time (CEST 
<http://www.timeanddate.com/library/abbreviations/timezones/eu/cest.html> ).

 

We encourage you to participate remotely by tweeting your workshop questions or 
comments with #esrworkshop on Tuesday and your meeting questions or comments 
with #orlp on Wednesday and Thursday. If you don't tweet, don't worry! You can 
submit your questions or comments via chat on the live stream page once the 
event starts. Tweets that containing the hashtags #esrworkshop or #orlp will 
appear with the chat messages in the Cover it Live window together, so everyone 
can join the conversation.

 

We also encourage you to register to view the live stream 
<http://registration.oclc.org/reg/?pc=2014orlpamsterdamlivestream> . 
Registration is optional, but it allows us to contact you if any technical 
issues should arise.

 

These sessions will be videotaped and posted on our website 
<http://www.oclc.org/research/events/2014/06-10.html>  and on YouTube 
<http://www.youtube.com/OCLCResearch>  for viewing at your convenience. 

 

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OCLC Research launches multilingual bibliographic structure activity

 

In order to leverage the multilingual content in WorldCat 
<http://www.worldcat.org/>  and make it easier for users to identify resources 
in their preferred language and script, OCLC Research has launched the 
multilingual bibliographic structure 
<http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/multilingual-bib-structure.html>  
activity to mine the data from translated works, with the goal of improving 
work clustering, presentation, linked data representations and to contribute 
generally to global knowledge. We’re also generating work-translation 
("expression level") records—including the translated title and translator with 
links to the original work and the author—and adding them to VIAF 
<http://viaf.org/>  (Virtual International Authority File), flagged as "xR". At 
the same time, we’re marking up these generated VIAF records using linked data 
schema so that the relationship of each work with their associated translations 
and translators can be shared in the Semantic Web.

 

See Karen Smith-Yoshimura’s Challenges posted by translations 
<http://hangingtogether.org/?p=3878>  HangingTogether blog post, our news 
announcement <http://www.oclc.org/research/news/2014/06-02.html>  and activity 
page <http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/multilingual-bib-structure.html>  
for more information about this work. 

 

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Issue 12 of OCLC Research Quarterly Highlights available

 

This periodic bulletin gathers items from the previous quarter of work in OCLC 
Research <http://www.oclc.org/research.html> , the OCLC Innovation Lab 
<http://www.oclc.org/research/innovationlab.html> , and the OCLC Research 
Library Partnership <http://www.oclc.org/research/partnership.html> . Issue 12 
<http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/newsletters/quarterlyhighlights/2013-14q3.html>
  covers the period of January - March 2013. Highlights include:

·        Lorcan Dempsey <http://www.oclc.org/research/people/dempsey.html>  on 
where we're going with works and other entities

·        Roy Tennant <http://www.oclc.org/research/people/tennant.html>  on 
technology and infrastructure

·        Three publications <http://www.oclc.org/research/publications.html>  
released during the quarter

·        A recap of OCLC Research news <http://www.oclc.org/research/news.html> 
, events <http://www.oclc.org/research/events.html> , webinars 
<http://www.oclc.org/research/events/webinars.html>  and presentations 
<http://www.oclc.org/research/presentations.html> 

·        The six themes <http://www.oclc.org/research/activities.html>  that 
shape our work, with a featured activity from each.

 

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