# /research/projects/default.htm

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# Projects

Advancing knowledge through focused activities

OCLC Researchers engage in many activities, the core of which is the research project. Projects allow fluid teams of people to focus on defined opportunities for experimentation and other types of investigation, prototyping, and advancing standards.
Filter current projects by theme: |
Project |  |  |  |  |
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Audience Level (a Data Mining project) |  |  |  |  |
Automatic Classification Research |  |  |  |  |
Books as Expressions of Global Cultural Diversity (a Data Mining project) |  |  |  |  |
Comparative Collection Assessment (a Data Mining project) |  |  |  |  |
Curiouser (a FRBR-related project) |  |  |  |  |
Data Mining research area |  |  |  |  |
DSpace Harvesting (an OAI-related project) |  |  |  |  |
Economics of Digital Preservation |  |  |  |  |
Electronic Theses & Dissertations (an OAI-related project) |  |  |  |  |
FAST |  |  |  |  |
FAST as a Knowledge Base for Automatic Classification |  |  |  |  |
FictionFinder (a FRBR-related project) |  |  |  |  |
FRBR research area |  |  |  |  |
FRBR Algorithm (a FRBR-related project) |  |  |  |  |
Open Source Software |  |  |  |  |
OpenURL research area |  |  |  |  |
OpenURL Registry (an OpenURL-related project) |  |  |  |  |
PREMIS: PREservation Metadata Implementation Strategies |  |  |  |  |
Protocol Support |  |  |  |  |
IMS Support |  |  |  |  |
Open Archives Initiative research area |  |  |  |  |
Search & Retrieve on the Web |  |  |  |  |
Z39.50 |  |  |  |  |
Publisher name server (a Data Mining project) |  |  |  |  |
PURL |  |  |  |  |
RDF Interoperability |  |  |  |  |
RDF Topicmaps |  |  |  |  |
Schema Transformation Services |  |  |  |  |
Seeking Synchronicity: Evaluating Virtual Reference Services from User, Non-User, and Librarian Perspectives (A collaboration between OCLC and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, supported by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). |  |  |  |  |
Sense-making the Information Confluence (A collaboration between OCLC and The Ohio State University supported by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). |  |  |  |  |
Terminology Services |  |  |  |  |
Virtual International Authority File |  |  |  |  |
WikiD |  |  |  |  |
WorldMap (a Data Mining project) |  |  |  |  |
XSLTProc |  |  |  |  |