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This update includes: . Reminder! International Linked Data Survey for Implementers . OCLC Research at ALA Annual . OCLC Research Library Partnership meeting, Rep, Rank, and Role - slides now available Best regards, Merrilee Highlights for the OCLC Research Library Partnership Reminder! International Linked Data Survey for Implementers (2015 version) OCLC Research is repeating its survey to learn details of specific projects or services that format metadata as linked data and/or make subsequent uses of it. OCLC Research Library Partners Metadata Managers Focus Group members are aware that many in the libraries/archives/museum community are excited by the potential of linked data applications to make new, valuable uses of existing metadata. If you or a colleague have implemented or are implementing linked data projects or services-either by publishing data as linked data or ingesting linked data resources into your own data or applications-please take the survey at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LinkedDataSurvey2015 Expected time to complete the survey: 15-20 minutes for each project described. We ask that responses be completed by 17 July 2015. As with last year's survey, examples collected will be shared for the benefit of others wanting to undertake similar efforts, wondering what is possible to do and how to go about it. Participating institutions will be identified with the projects described, but contact information will be held confidential. Responses to this survey will be valuable to others who are also interested in starting Linked Data projects. If you took the survey last year, please take this year's as well, as things might have changed. The questions are the same, but some multiple choice questions have additional options taken from the "other" responses in last year's survey, and some open-ended questions have been changed to multiple choice, again based on last year's responses. You can check what you answered last year on this publicly available spreadsheet, "Results of Linked Data Survey for Implementers <http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/research/activities/linkeddata/oclc-researc h-linked-data-implementers-survey-2014.xlsx> ." Please feel free to share the above link to the survey. We'd like as many responses as possible! OCLC Research at Annual OCLC Research staff will be speaking about a variety of projects at the upcoming ALA meeting in San Francisco. Here are some highlights - we invite you to join us at any of these sessions. If you publish linked data, will they come? Panelists from institutions that currently publish linked data will provide insight into how they are defining the value of publishing linked data. When: Saturday June 27, 8:30 - 10:00 am Where: Moscone Center West, Room 2003 Speakers: Allison Jai O'Dell, Metadata Librarian, University of Florida; Amber Billey, Catalog/Metadata Librarian, University of Vermont; Barbara Bushman, Assistant Head, Cataloging & Metadata Management Section, National Library of Medicine; Nate Trail, Network Development and MARC Standards Office, Library of Congress; Roy Tennant, Senior Program Officer, OCLC Research OCLC Linked Data Roundtable: Stories from the Front Linked data implementers will share their stories about what has worked and what hasn't, problems faced and solved, and remaining challenges and opportunities. Speakers will be drawn from major library linked data initiatives and their focus will be on practical considerations of linked data implementations. Speakers: Roy Tennant, Senior Program Officer, OCLC Research, Nate Trail, Network Development and MARC Standards Office, Library of Congress, Phil Schreur, Stanford University & The Linked Data 4 Libraries (LD4L) project, Karen Smith-Yoshimura, Program Officer, OCLC Saturday June 27, 10:30 - 11:30 am Moscone Center West, Room 3008 RBMS Digital Special Collections Discussion Group - web archiving issues Program Officer Jackie Dooley will lead a discussion of web archiving issues. Those with some experience doing web archiving are particularly encouraged to attend so that we'll have some meaty issues to discuss, but all are welcome. The discussion will be modeled on the approach taken for two OCLC Research WebEx discussion sessions held this spring in which we surfaced many issues in the broad areas of capture, metadata, and use. Refer to the notes http://hangingtogether.org/?p=5140 for an overview of the outcomes. Sunday, 28 June, 10:30-11:30am Hilton, Golden Gate 4 Want to work with Wikipedia? Not sure where to start? Join Senior Program Officer Merrilee Proffitt and Jake Orlowitz, Wikimedia Foundation for a drop in session. Do you have questions about how to engage with Wikipedia? Want to know more about editathons, Wikipedians in residence, and how your institution can engage with the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit? Please stop by. Sunday June 28, 3 - 4 pm OCLC Blue Suite, Marriott Marquis, Juniper Suite, 7890 Mission Street (For those who want to learn more, Jake will be speaking on Sunday from 1 - 2 pm Moscone Center West, Room 3010 in Resource Discovery in the Age of Wikipedia (meeting readers where they already are). Program will cover many topics including Wikipedia Visiting Scholars, publisher program, and how institutions can get involved. There's also an opportunity to get your hands dirty learning to edit Wikipedia in a session on Friday-more details here <http://www.eventbrite.com/e/wiki-loves-ala-editathon-at-the-wikipedia-offic e-3-blocks-from-moscone-tickets-17253454547%20?> .) OCLC Research Update Join the OCLC Research team for an update on their projects. Presenters include Merrilee Proffitt, who will speak on how libraries can engage with Wikipedia; Bruce Washburn, who will speak on using Entity-based Linked Data for discovery, editing and visualization; and Diane Vizine-Goetz, who will provide an update on FAST (Faceted Application of Subject Terminology). Roy Tennant will host this session, which will include time for questions. Monday, June 29, 10:30 - 11:30 am Moscone Center North, Room 125 OCLC Research Library Partnership meeting, Rep, Rank, and Role - slides now available The slides from the OCLC Research Library Partnership meeting which focused on the library's contribution to university ranking and researcher reputation are now available http://oc.lc/orlprrrslides. -- Merrilee Proffitt OCLC . Senior Program Officer, OCLC Research 777 Mariners Island Blvd, Suite 550, San Mateo, CA USA 94404 T +1-650-287-2136 <http://www.oclc.org/home.en.html?cmpid=emailsig_logo> OCLC <http://www.oclc.org/home.en.html?cmpid=emailsig_link> OCLC.org . <http://www.facebook.com/pages/OCLC/20530435726> Facebook . <http://twitter.com/oclc> Twitter . <http://www.youtube.com/OCLCvideo> YouTube
