Brian Lavoie
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