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. Works in Progress Webinar: All About OPenn . A new blog from OCLC, Next Plus. where you'll find us and "of note" from OCLC Research (data modeling and reuse project receives NEH grant). Merrilee Highlights for the OCLC Research Library Partnership Works in Progress Webinar: All About OPenn Will Noel and Doug Emery, University of Pennsylvania Wednesday, March 23, 2016 12:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time / (9:00-10:00 am Pacific Daylight Time / 4:00-5:00 pm London) This webinar look at the challenges of and solutions for presenting cultural heritage materials as Open Data. It will focus on OPenn <http://openn.library.upenn.edu/> , a new website that hosts open data from cultural heritage institutions in the Philadelphia area. OPenn will present the data for a 16 institution-wide effort to digitize all the medieval manuscripts in the city with the help of a $500,000 CLIR grant. Speakers Will Noel and Doug Emery together have created several open data sets, including the Archimedes Palimpsest, the Galen Syriac Palimpsest, the Walters Art Museum's illuminated manuscripts, and now the materials on OPenn. This webinar will be of interest to the Open Data Community, and all those who are struggling with issues of data preservation and presentation in the cultural heritage sector, from small institutions to larger ones. <https://oclc.webex.com/oclc/onstage/g.php?MTID=ebf21011bbe66e185bdc422aec68 ffcfc> Register for this free webinar now - a recorded version of the session will be available afterwards. A new blog from OCLC, Next OCLC has launched a new blog: Next <http://oclc.org/blog/> . As you might guess from the title, it's on what is next for libraries, librarians, and the communities they serve. Colleagues from OCLC Membership and Research will be blogging alongside others and we encourage you to check it out. As a sample, Roy Tennant wrote Getting started with linked data <http://www.oclc.org/blog/main/getting-started-with-linked-data-3/> . Roy says, "In this short piece I try to make linked data understandable and explain why it is important (making data more machine-actionable) and how it will have an impact on libraries (by making many of workflows more efficient and enhancing the user discovery experience)." There's more to explore now and in the future. Add this blog reader or aggregator or follow @OCLC <https://twitter.com/OCLC> on Twitter to see what's Next. Where you'll find us You will find staff that supports the OCLC Research Partnership at the following events: . 26 February: Keio Library Forum <http://www.lib.keio.ac.jp/jp/forum/index.html> , Tokyo. Constance Malpas will give a keynote on the role of libraries in research support. . 1-2 March: <https://www.oclc.org/events/2016/emea-annual-2016.en.html> OCLC EMEA Regional Council Conference, Madrid, Spain. Titia van der Werf and Lynn Connaway will attend and present. . 7-10 March: Code4Lib, Philadelphia. Bruce Washburn will be attending along with Karen Combs. . 8-12 March 9-12: VRA/ARLIS joint conference <http://www.arlisna-vra.org/seattle2016/> , Seattle. Dennis Massie and Jeff Mixter will attend and present. . 17-18 March: <http://www.convegnostelline.it/home.php> Bibliostar 2016, Milan, Italy. Titia van der Werf and Lynn Connaway will attend and present. Please seek us out to give us your ideas and find out more about our work. Of note from OCLC Research Data modeling and reuse project receives NEH grant OCLC Research joins colleagues from Stanford University, the University of Michigan and the Institute for Field Research (IFR) in assisting the Alexandria Archive Institute (AAI) on a three-year data modeling and reuse project that has been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Research Scientist Ixchel Faniel, Ph.D. is working with the team to interview and observe archaeologists doing field work in the three geographical areas and archaeologists interested in reusing data from those areas. Congratulations to Ixchel and colleagues for winning this grant. -- Merrilee Proffitt OCLC . Senior Program Officer, OCLC Research 155 Bovet Rd, Suite 500, San Mateo, CA 94402 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
