Read this blog post by Rebecca Bryant, PhD, Charles Watkinson (he/him/his), & Rebecca Welzenbach for an illustrative example of “disappearing metadata” for a monograph as it goes downstream: scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2021/12/06/gue…

Although Bruce Washburn is retiring all can still benefit from watching his presentations on a number of these projects. See oclc.org/research/prese…

What a fantastic example of a crowd-initiated and crowd-sourcing tool via the #oclcrlp!

It’s about time a feline blogged about the pandemic! Mine sleeps too much to attempt one. Many thanks, Rebecca Bryant, PhD for brightening my day.

I was interested to see how the themes arising from adapting metadata work in the pandemic’s first year continued or evolved in its second year as summarized by my successor, Kathryn Stine

I am impressed by the care and effort chela and her colleagues took to create focus groups to identify inclusive & low-barrier pathways for cultural heritage institutions to participate in NAFAN

New on HangingTogether: how linked data approaches can analyze MARC data more efficiently & streamlined than other methods and can enable querying existing MARC data. hangingtogether.org/how-marc-can-s…

An even better phrased pointer to today’s blog post...

Wow! Two of my passions while I was working covered here - linked data as a tool for uncovering new resources and relationships & taking steps toward more diversity and inclusion.

Wow. As an astronomy buff, I found this post fascinating.

Discussions on the next generation of metadata in cultural heritage among main stakeholders in Spain, kicked off by BNE, summarized here with link to Spanish version: hangingtogether.org/next-generatio…

“Ukraine's libraries are offering bomb shelters, camouflage classes and, yes, books” buff.ly/3CsskTF via Brian Lavoie

If you enjoyed part 1 of the HT blog post on WFH from a feline perspective, here’s part 2, introducing other furry coworkers

Delighted to see this report published - and appreciate & am impressed by the work that went into it. Grateful that I contributed a bit to the early stages before I retired. Read it!

Great overview of the adoption of Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) on national levels and their importance in this #oclcrlp HangingTogether blog post: hangingtogether.org/taking-researc…

Exciting news for all #linkeddata & #lodlam afficiandos!

Impressive body of work by @oclc Research summarized in this new report: oclc.org/research/go/ne…

Great blog post detailing how the conversations in Spain raised awareness of the “centrality of author identification in the supply chain”

I attended this webinar and heartily agree it’s well worth watching the recording for anyone working in libraries

Enjoyed reading this Hanging Together blog post by @oclc Senior Program Officer Titia van der Werf summarizing highlights of a Sept 2022 tour with a “corona twist” of libraries in Spain. hangingtogether.org/in-between-vir…