This update includes:
. TAI-CHI webinar, What You Can do to Make the Transition From MARC to Linked Data Easier . From HangingTogether: Persistent identifiers for local collections Plus. where you'll find us and "of note" from OCLC Research (Mission Statements and Manifestos). Best regards, Merrilee Highlights for the OCLC Research Library Partnership Next week! 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. >From HangingTogether Karen Smith-Yoshimura summarized discussions of OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers regarding "persistent identifiers for local collections." Information professionals want to repurpose, present and connect the data they have created and curated from century-old standards and practices by publishing library metadata in the linked data framework. Persistent identifiers for local collections <http://hangingtogether.org/?p=5445> Where you'll find us You will find staff that supports the OCLC Research Partnership at the following events: . 12-15 November: <http://litaforum.org/> LITA Forum, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Roy Tennant will present "The Web of Data is Our Oyster" . 9-11 November: euroCRIS Strategic Membership Meeting <http://eurocris.org/activities/membership-meetings/eurocris-strategic-membe rship-meeting-barcelona-0> , Barcelona, Spain: Titia van der Weft will present "Role of ISNI-identifiers in Research Information Management" . 12-13 November: Web Archives 2015: Capture, Curate, Analyze <http://www.lib.umich.edu/webarchivesconference> , Ann Arbor, Michigan: Jackie Dooley will attend. . 1-4 December: Melbourne, Australia: Lorcan Dempsey, Dennis Massie, and Karen Smith-Yoshimura will present at and attend the <http://www.nla.gov.au/librariesaustralia/news-events/forum/2015-forum/> Libraries Australia Forum, the <http://www.oclc.org/research/events/2015/12-02.html> OCLC Research Library Partnership Meeting, and the <http://www.oclc.org/en-AU/events/2015/aprc-annual-2015/aprc-2015/programme. html> OCLC Asia Pacific Regional Council Conference . 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 What is your library mission statement or manifesto? <http://hangingtogether.org/?p=5440> -- 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
