John Chapman is Senior Product Manager, Metadata Strategy and Operations, for OCLC. He oversees cataloging applications, including Connexion and WorldShare Record Manager, as well as the WorldCat Metadata API. He also helps direct linked data strategy for OCLC, and is the manager for a 2-year data infrastructure grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Prior to working at OCLC, he was Metadata Librarian for the University of Minnesota. During his career in libraries, he has received honors and professional recognition for accomplishments in corporate librarianship, special collections digitization, and metadata standards development.