(6 Jan 2026) ORCID 2030: Advancing the Future of Research, outlines ORCID’s commitment to meeting the challenges and opportunities presented by this dynamic future and underscores a significant evolution in our focus, moving from a foundation of establishing trust and value to a more active, expansive role in empowering the future of research globally. …
(8 Dec 2025) As many of you know, our Advisory Committee has been building some best practice guidance for generative and agentic AI usage metrics. Today we’re sharing the results of that work with you. We developed Release 5.1 of the Code of Practice before to the public availability of generative and agentic artificial intelligence. In this…
(Nov 2025) As libraries shift their budgets toward investing in digital resources and content, employees must also streamline work processes to accommodate thousands, if not millions, of titles. Missing or substandard metadata can hinder discoverability, impacting the library’s return of investment in these resources, not to mention the opportunity costs that result for our users. …
(20 Aug 2025) Artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to automate repetitive, data-intensive and pattern-recognition tasks, thereby freeing human cataloguers for more complex work. What impact will this have? We interviewed Getaneh Alemu because his current work demonstrates a proactive engagement with AI in cataloguing. He is actively involved in exploring, testing and evaluating various…
(22 May 2025) All presentations are online and the recordings from the meeting will be made available in mid-June 2025. The COAR Conference took place in Tokyo, Japan on May 12-15, 2025 and was attended by approximately 140 people representing at least 23 different countries. The meeting was jointly organized by COAR, JPCOAR, and the National Institute…
(24 Mar 2025) Tanaka Ryonosuke of the Acquisitions and Bibliography Department, National Diet Library, introduces the transition of the Japanese National Bibliography from paper-based formats to digital data, now known as the Japanese National Bibliographic Data in this article. It began with “Nohon Geppo” in 1948 and evolved to digital formats with JAPAN/MARC in…
(20 Mar 2025) Abstract: Introduction: Libraries hold large amounts of bibliographic data, with great potential for enrichment with linked open data. The New Zealand Thesis Project explored this potential by uploading thesis metadata records from New Zealand institutional repositories to Wikidata, a collaborative linked data knowledge base. Description of Project: Nine New Zealand tertiary institutions collaborated…
(6 Mar 2025) In the 12 years that ORCID has been sharing the Public Data File, it has been downloaded more than 190,000 times, serving as a data source for a diverse range of projects such as the analysis of relationships and individual trajectories within the research community, scientific migrations, collaboration networks, and the adoption…
(5 Feb 2025) OCLC Metadata Quality teams implement a variety of measures—both manual and automated—to improve the quality and usefulness of WorldCat data. These extensive and ongoing efforts ensure that WorldCat data supports the needs of our membership and our global network of thousands of libraries across a wide range of services. As the technologies and…
(21 Aug 2024) OCLC is unlocking the power of the Dewey Decimal Classification system to build an increasingly robust linked data infrastructure by creating uniform resource identifiers (URIs) for Dewey numbers. As the foundation for “concept” entities, this Dewey linked data provides subject classifications to Works entities in WorldCat Entities, creating a layer of new relationships for knowledge…