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managers be learning?</a><br /> <em>Hanging Together</em> | June 22, 2023<br /> by Richard Urban</p> <p><a title="Blog link - Identity management beyond the LC/NACO Authority File" href="https://hangingtogether.org/identity-management-beyond-the-lc-naco-authority-file/" target="_blank">Identity management beyond the LC/NACO Authority File</a><br /> <em>Hanging Together</em> | May 24, 2023<br /> by Richard Urban</p> <p><a title="Blog link - Filling the bench: Evolving roles in metadata job descriptions and hiring" href="https://hangingtogether.org/filling-the-bench/" target="_blank">Filling the bench: Evolving roles in metadata job descriptions and hiring</a><br /> <em>Hanging Together</em> | February 15, 2023<br /> by Richard Urban</p> <h3>2022</h3> <p><a title="Blog link -Balacing the metadata portfolio" href="https://hangingtogether.org/balancing-the-metadata-portfolio/">Balancing the metadata portfolio</a><br /> <em>Hanging Together</em> | March 15, 2022<br /> by Kathryn Stine</p> <p><a href="https://hangingtogether.org/managing-metadata-managing-hybridity/">Managing metadata, managing hybridity</a><br /> <em>Hanging Together</em> | January 25, 2022<br /> by Kathryn Stine</p> <h3>2020</h3> <ul> <li><a href="https://hangingtogether.org/?p=7880"></a><a href="https://hangingtogether.org/experimentations-with-wikidata-wikibase/">Experimentations with Wikidata/Wikibase</a></li> <li><a href="https://hangingtogether.org/?p=7880"></a><a href="https://hangingtogether.org/?p=8002"></a><a href="https://hangingtogether.org/metadata-management-in-times-of-uncertainty/">Metadata management in times of uncertainty</a></li> <li><a href="https://hangingtogether.org/presenting-metadata-from-different-sources-in-discovery-layers/">Presenting metadata from different sources in discovery layers</a></li> <li><a href="https://hangingtogether.org/knowledge-management-and-metadata/">Knowledge Management and Metadata</a></li> <li><a href="https://hangingtogether.org/new-ways-of-using-and-enhancing-cataloging-and-authority-records/">New ways of using and enhancing cataloging and authority records</a></li> </ul> <h3>2019</h3> <ul> <li><a href="http://hangingtogether.org/?p=7135"></a><a href="https://hangingtogether.org/strategies-for-alternate-subject-headings-and-maintaining-subject-headings/">Strategies for alternate subject headings and maintaining subject headings</a></li> <li><a href="https://hangingtogether.org/stewardship-of-professional-ftes-in-metadata-work-and-turnover/">Stewardship of professional FTEs in metadata work and turnover</a></li> <li><a href="http://hangingtogether.org/?p=7135"></a><a href="http://hangingtogether.org/?p=7591"></a><a href="https://hangingtogether.org/future-proofing-of-cataloging/">“Future Proofing” of Cataloging</a></li> <li><a href="https://hangingtogether.org/knowledge-organization-systems/">Knowledge Organization Systems</a></li> <li><a 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href="https://hangingtogether.org/are-distributed-models-for-vocabulary-maintenance-viable/">Are distributed models for vocabulary maintenance viable?</a></li> <li><a href="https://hangingtogether.org/oclc-research-and-its-research-library-partnership/">What metadata managers expect from and value about the Research Library Partnership</a> </li> </ul> <h3>2017</h3> <ul> <li><a href="https://hangingtogether.org/how-much-metadata-is-practical/">How much metadata is practical?</a></li> <li><a href="https://hangingtogether.org/beyond-the-authorized-access-point/">Beyond the Authorized Access Point?</a></li> <li><a href="https://hangingtogether.org/metadata-advocacy/">Metadata advocacy</a></li> <li><a href="https://hangingtogether.org/vocabulary-control-data-in-discovery-environments/">Vocabulary control data in discovery environments</a></li> <li><a href="https://hangingtogether.org/use-cases-for-local-identifiers/">Use cases for local identifiers</a></li> <li><a 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<li><a href="https://hangingtogether.org/services-built-on-usage-metrics/">Services built on usage metrics</a></li> <li><a href="https://hangingtogether.org/persistent-identifiers-for-local-collections/">Persistent identifiers for local collections</a></li> <li><a href="https://hangingtogether.org/getting-identifiers-created-for-legacy-names/">Getting identifiers created for legacy names</a></li> <li><a href="https://hangingtogether.org/shift-to-linked-data-for-production/">Shift to linked data for production</a></li> <li><a href="https://hangingtogether.org/managing-metadata-for-image-collections/">Managing metadata for image collections</a></li> <li><a href="https://hangingtogether.org/working-in-shared-files/">Working in shared files</a></li> </ul> <h2>Past working groups</h2> <ul> <li>Representing Organizations in ISNI Task Group (2014-2016)<br /> Report: <a href="/content/dam/research/publications/2016/oclcresearch-organizational-identifiers-and-isni-2016.pdf">Addressing the 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