Speaker: Jean Godby, Ph.D, Senior Research Scientist, OCLC
Time: Wednesday, June 6th, 4-5pm
Location: Rush, 213
Title: OCLC Data Science Initiatives
Presentation: [slides]
Bio: Jean Godby is a Senior Research Scientist at OCLC. She has spent over twenty-five years exploring data-oriented research interests in library metadata standards, schema mapping and transformation, exchange between libraries and publishers, knowledge discovery, and new models of resource description. Jean currently leads a team of researchers and engineers on projects featuring data science and linked data. Jean has a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Ohio State University.
Current activities:
https://www.oclc.org/research/themes/data-science/ariadne.html
https://www.oclc.org/research/themes/data-science/linkeddata.html
Abstract: Data Science Research and Development at OCLC. This presentation will survey projects now underway that use data-science solutions to address users’ perceptions that library metadata is noisy, redundant, and not entirely fit for purpose. Data quality has always been a research interest at OCLC. But in today’s environment, this work is more urgent because it is being conducted as library resource description is undergoing a generational change.
OCLC is “a global library cooperative that provides shared technology services, original research and community programs for its membership and the library community at large.”
OCLC Research is “one of the world’s leading centers devoted exclusively to the challenges facing libraries and archives in a rapidly changing information technology environment.”