This update includes:
. TAI-CHI webinar, What You Can do to Make the Transition From MARC to Linked Data Easier . Join us in Melbourne for a meeting of OCLC Research Library Partners Plus. where you'll find us and "of note" from OCLC Research (IMLS awards grants to OCLC). Best regards, Merrilee Highlights for the OCLC Research Library Partnership Save the date! TAI-CHI webinar, What You Can do to Make the Transition From MARC to Linked Data Easier Jean Godby and Karen Smith-Yoshimura, OCLC Research Thursday, 5 November 11:00 - 12:00 Eastern Time (8:00-9:00 am Pacific Daylight Time / 4:00-5:00 pm London) >From OCLC's experiences in datamining WorldCat to identify entities that can be exposed to the semantic Web, we've learned that's there's a lot of data that can be parsed easily and made into "statements" - and sadly, a lot that cannot be without a lot more effort. In this webinar, Jean Godby and Karen Smith-Yoshimura of OCLC Research offer examples from their multilingual bibliographic structure and performers extraction adventures of what metadata specialists can do now to make it easier to transform text strings in MARC data into the entity-"things" we later expose as linked data that others can consume. This webinar is the most recent in our Technical Advances for Innovation in Cultural Heritage Institutions (TAI CHI) Webinar Series <http://www.oclc.org/research/events/taichi.html> <https://oclc.webex.com/oclc/onstage/g.php?MTID=ee90777eefe36ed1c51b34379add 4bae7> Register for this free webinar now - a recorded version of the session will be available afterwards. The Partnership now spans from Western Australia to Central Europe, which means it is not easy for us to schedule at times that work for everyone. However, we always record our webinars, and we are also more than happy to either host a discussion following one of our webinars, or repeat a webinar if feasible. Please ask! Not available to attend a webinar at the scheduled time? If you register our webinars we will send you an email when the recording and slides are available. We will also post information about completed webinars to this list. Join us in Melbourne for a meeting of OCLC Research Library Partners We are pleased to announce that we will hold a meeting at the University of Melbourne on 2 December 2015. Lorcan Dempsey, Dennis Massie, and Karen Smith-Yoshimura will join together with representatives from the OCLC Research Library Partnership to focus on information exchange for and by OCLC Research Library Partners in Australia and in the Asia Pacific Region. This meeting is being held in conjunction with the Libraries Australia Forum <http://www.nla.gov.au/librariesaustralia/news-events/forum/2015-forum/> , and the OCLC Asia Pacific Regional Council Conference <http://www.oclc.org/en-AU/events/2015/aprc-annual-2015/aprc-2015/programme. html> which are during the same week. Many thanks to University of Melbourne for hosting this meeting. Speakers will include: Jill Benn, University of Western Australia Cathrine Harboe-Ree, Monash University JoAnne Sparks, Macquarie University Andrew Wells, UNSW Australia Please view the agenda online <http://www.oclc.org/research/events/2015/12-02.html> and register. Where you'll find us You will find staff that supports the OCLC Research Partnership at the following events: . 21-22 October: <http://www.oclc.org/research/events/2015/10-21.html> The Library in Life of User OCLC Research Library Partnership Meeting, Chicago, IL: Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Lorcan Dempsey, Will Harvey, Jim Michalko, and Merrilee Proffitt) . 26 October: <http://internet-librarian.infotoday.com/2015/> Internet Librarian, Monterey, Roy Tennant will present "Data Designed for Discovery" . 12-15 November: <http://litaforum.org/> LITA Forum, Minneapolis, MN, Roy Tennant will present "The Web of Data is Our Oyster" . 1-4 December: Melbourne, Australia. Lorcan Dempsey, Dennis Massie, and Karen Smith-Yoshimura will present at and attend the Libraries Australia Forum <http://www.nla.gov.au/librariesaustralia/news-events/forum/2015-forum/> , the OCLC Research Library Partnership Meeting <http://www.oclc.org/research/events/2015/12-02.html> , and the OCLC Asia Pacific Regional Council Conference <http://www.oclc.org/en-AU/events/2015/aprc-annual-2015/aprc-2015/programme. html> . . 13-16 December: <https://www.cni.org/event/fall-2015-member-mtg/> CNI Fall Membership Meeting, Washington, DC: Jim Michalko will attend. Please seek us out to give us your ideas and find out more about our work. Of note from OCLC Research The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) recently awarded <http://www.oclc.org/research/news/2015/09-09.html> grants to OCLC, including two National Leadership Grants for Libraries and one Laura Bush 21st Century Grant. -- Merrilee Proffitt OCLC . 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