Optional member session agenda 1000 1015 Titia van der Werf OCLC Senior Program Officer Welcome Short briefing of current OCLC Research efforts 1015 1130 Rémi Mathis ID: 493688
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Slide1
Increasing connectivity and quality on the web
Optional
member
sessionSlide2
agenda
10:00 –
10:15
Titia van der Werf
, OCLC Senior Program
Officer
Welcome
Short
briefing of current OCLC Research
efforts.
10:15
–11:30
Rémi Mathis
,
President of Wikimedia France
and
Max
Klein
,
Wikipedian
in Residence, OCLC
The new French
SemanticPedia
and its use by the
BnF
and other cultural institutions.
Wikipedians
-in-Residence’s
involvement with Libraries
Q&A session
11:30 –
12:00
Shenghui Wang
, Research Scientist, OCLC
Research
investigations
by OCLC
and Europeana
Q&A sessionSlide3
About OCLC Research
Mission
: expand knowledge that advances OCLC's public purposes:
Furthering access to the world's information
Reducing library costs
One of the world's leading centers devoted exclusively to exploring the challenges facing libraries & archivesSlide4
Shared Community R&D
Research activities:
http://www.oclc.org/research/activities.html
Activities related to this session:
Wikipedians
and LibrariesWebinars/events in the USVIAFbot
Europeana Innovation PilotsSlide5
Advanced Development
OCLC’s “Proving Grounds”:
Develop/trial innovative processes & frameworks
First adopter of new standards & tools
Technology diffusion within OCLC and beyond
Economically processing data at scale
with
OCLC Innovation Lab
Linked data technologies
Examples:
Addition of
Schema.org
mark-up to WorldCat.org pages
Release of a downloadable linked data file for the 1M most widely held works in
WorldCat
.Slide6
Member and partner engagement
Contact: Titia van der Werf
titia.vanderwerf@oclc.org