OCLC’s role in advancing library linked data
There are times when a single organization’s decision to embrace a particular technology will have an outsized influence on everyone else in that sector. For example, with the release of “Toy Story” i…
From data to action: Leveraging insights to make more informed collection decisions
“How many books are there on Islamic law?” This was the deceptively simple question posed by a colleague while brainstorming the potential scope of a digitization project on Islamic legal history. For…
Scaling de-duplication in WorldCat: Balancing AI innovation with cataloging care
We first shared our efforts for leveraging machine learning to improve de-duplication in WorldCat in this 2023 blog post on “Machine Learning and WorldCat.” De-duplication has always been essential to…