Presenters
![[photo]](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ff975e4e5fe1fabe42b123e97e85d407.png?d=https://proposalspace.com/images/no_photo.png&r=PG&s=50 "Carl G Stahmer, PhD, University of California, Davis")
Carl G Stahmer, PhD, University of California, Davis
![[photo]](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/52aabb0eb8f26f309037aa4aa8819cbc.png?d=https://proposalspace.com/images/no_photo.png&r=PG&s=50 "John W Chapman, OCLC, Inc.")
8. Emerging Technologies & Trends
understand practical uses of linked data, describe opportunities for improving metadata using web services
Join librarians and OCLC staff as we discuss a service to help libraries reconcile and connect their data with WorldCat entities. Offering opportunities for disambiguation and connections to other web resources, this service suggests new ways to use the strength of libraries' collective data to improve efficiency, linking and discovery.