Date:

Attendees: Steven, Huda, Simeon, Lynette, Tim, Greg

Regrets:  Jason

Linked-Data Authority Support (WP2)

  • Qa Sinopia Collaboration – Support and evolve QA+cache instance for use with Sinopia
    • 2021-08-06
      • No meeting with Stanford this week
      • Met with Dave to discuss authority support issues. Working though issues where we have feedback from stakeholders about context that needs to be included. Interesting questions about the possibility of querying across datasets which would mean querying across multiple indexes
  • Best Practices for Authoritative Data working group (focus on Change Management)
    • 2021-08-02 Meeting to look at Activity Streams document and SPARQL document.  After the meeting, I updated the ActivityStreams document to follow the standard more closely.
  • Cache Containerization Plan - Develop a sustainable solution that others can deploy
    • 2021-07-30 
      • Lynette and Greg working on this next week. Solidify instructions and search API for Dave's cache
    • 2021-08-06
      • Lynette working on auto-deploy, having trouble getting this to work from github. Greg has been working on discovery more

Discovery (WP3)

  • https://github.com/LD4P/discovery/projects/2 for issues etc. 
  • Draft of a discovery plan: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zKYW7FQVVNvyd0XjjW0qWznX9PC3jbmOE6Kz_yygPjs/edit?usp=sharing
  • Research: how to go from knowledge graph to an index
  • DASH! (Displaying Authorities Seamlessly Here)
    • Dashboard design meeting kickoff notes
    • User reps D&A meeting: Expect next follow-up in August (Slides: from user reps meeting 2021-04-09 and result was "not no")
    • https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PgQi3xobsPhr9DUHU_YGeimL1OjNiiTdkiNWb36r3Gg/edit
    • Usability testing and followup for DASH: Usability results
      • Usability results, a few little things to finish up
      • GitHub issues
      • 2021-08-06
        • Tidying up DASH! demo. Worked with Greg to get Solr indexes for demo updated to match D&A FOLIO index. Have pinged Adam to set up user reps meeting, next D&A spring is mid-September so we want to have user reps meeting before then. Maybe meeting Aug 13
        • Tim & Huda looked a changes that result from the updates to the Solr indexes from our Voyager to FOLIO, will be fixed for user reps meeting
  • BANG! (Bibliographic Aspects Newly GUI'd)
    • Jamboard link
    • Expect to include Works. Need to do something beyond what we already have live from the OCLC concordance data.
    • 2021-08-06
      • Steven has been working on Wikidata queries based on data such as LCCN from MARC record, focusing on motion pictures
      • Huda getting compressed data (12GB) from Dave for the PCC ShareVDE dataset
      • Thread for BANG! work - possibility of adding Wikidata info on one side and Hubs on the others. Not yet sure about the SVDE data - they typically show the superwork and not sure how this translates to our catalog environment. Would like to be able to link to both physical and digital items. Open question of whether we should focus on particular formats or subsets of items, will need to query data to better understand
  • DAG Calls
    • 2021-08-06 - Small meeting this week, discussion with input from non-Blacklight users about difficulty of using URIs in MARC. Good input from conference session about making DAG more open, need to make sure folks don't think one needs to be a grant participant to join. Looking about asking other folks with user research input to join

Other Topics

  • OCLC Linked Data / Entities Advisory Group
    • 2021-08-06 Huda has tried out UI and got API access. UI takeaway is that they aren't relying on the wikibase UI but still have same data at the moment. The search includes facet by type (e.g. work, person) and now have number of  results and pagination. Individual person page shows both data and provenance (which adds clutter to page) but doesn't have links to work. Lynette notes that search results are not RDF, will require custom module in order to incorporate in QA, also a lack of context
    • 2021-08-06 Question of what the OCLC business model of for-fee API access might mean. Would lookup via QA be allowed without a fee?
  • PCC 
    • 2021-06-25 Task Group on Non-RDA Entities headed by standing committee on standards will formally propose a list of non-RDA entity types. Steven will join and work picking up again
    • 2021-06-25 Planning group for data exchange met with meeting planned for 9/10 September: day 1 - foundational agreements including vendors (actors/profiles); day 2 - identify partnerships and tests (extending what is already happening as part of grant); also profiles group will pick up in July
    • 2021-08-06 Working on non-RDA types and data-exchange meeting going ahead
  • Default branch name - Working through repositories in Renaming of LD4P Repositories
  • Authorities in FOLIO
    • Hope to include URIs as part of Cornell FOLIO migration, possible LD4P work
    • 2021-06-11: Devs in FOLIO are working on MARC authority storage and basic features for maintaining authorities. mock-ups provided and have asked for feedback and test cases (positive and negative)
    • 2021-06-25 Waiting on CUL-IT capacity, Simeon had suggested August perhaps

Upcoming meetings

  • https://kula.uvic.ca/index.php/kula/announcement/view/1 .  Call for Proposals - Special Issue: "The Metadata Issue: Metadata as Knowledge".  Due January 31, 2021 (abstract 300-500 words).  Includes "The use of linked open data to facilitate the interaction between metadata and bodies of knowledge" and "Cultural heritage organization (libraries, archives, galleries, and museums) and academic projects that contribute to or leverage open knowledge platforms such as Wikidata"
  • BIBFRAME in Europe workshop - September 21-23 15:00–18:00 CEST = 9am-12noon EST
  • SWIB virtual again this year - No proposals submitted

Next Meeting(s), anyone out?:

  • 2021-08-13 = no


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