Brian Lavoie, Ph.D.
Senior Research Scientist
Brian joined OCLC Research in 1996. Since that time, he has worked on projects in many areas, including digital preservation, cooperative print management and data-mining of bibliographic resources. He was a co-founder of the working group that developed the PREMIS Data Dictionary for preservation metadata, and served as co-chair of a US National Science Foundation blue-ribbon task force on economically sustainable digital preservation. Brian's academic background is in economics; he has a Ph.D. in agricultural economics. His current research interests include stewardship of the evolving scholarly record, analysis of collective collections, and the system-wide organization of library resources.
Posts by Brian
- Making friends and influencing people: research support edition, 05 Feb 2020 in Partnerships&Research
- Exploring Canadian connections to the published record, 11 Jun 2019 in Big data&Research
- RDM: A challenge too big to tackle alone, 14 Feb 2019 in Partnerships&Research
- Preserving Research Data: Are you ready for a long-term commitment?, 13 Dec 2018 in Research
- Libraries and RDM: Three decisions, three components, three realities, 24 May 2018 in Research
- On Ireland, library data, and humanities research, 16 Mar 2018 in Research
- Happy 350th birthday, Jonathan Swift!, 29 Nov 2017 in Research
- From Wrocław to Munich to Chicago—how Polish materials are reflected in the world’s libraries, 21 Aug 2017 in Research
- Gulliver’s Travels – the most popular Irish work by the most popular Irish author in world literature, 07 Jun 2017 in Research
- The scholarly record…now on Twitter, 07 Sep 2016 in Librarianship&Trends