Date:

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

Regrets:  Steven

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)
  • 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
    • 2021-08-13
      • Huda has 33GB PCC ShareVDE dataset from Dave (Fuseki triplestore dump), will need Java to query
      • Expect to set up fork for BANG! to start experimenting with UI
      • Greg working to set up Huda with and AWS dev machine
  • DAG Calls
    • 2021-08-13 Next meeting for Aug 17, plan to work on spreadsheet of linked data systems for discovery. Build on some past work from OCLC that had linked data systems of all sorts. Also looking at knowledge panel white paper. For future meetings looking to get presentations from folks who have done relevant UX research.

Linked-Data Authority Support (WP2)

  • Qa Sinopia Collaboration – Support and evolve QA+cache instance for use with Sinopia
    • 2021-08-13
      • No meeting with Stanford this week
      • Michelle has requested info for the report including info on working groups, QA improvements for search accuracy and performance, and containerization.  Hoping to do most of this offline in Slack/email before next meeting.
  • Best Practices for Authoritative Data working group (focus on Change Management)
  • Cache Containerization Plan - Develop a sustainable solution that others can deploy
    • 2021-08-13
      • Lynette adding Circle CI for running tests. Using this to debug why github actions fails to deploy the qa_server_container automatically to ECR.  Did some review of instructions.  Need to update once we have a public ECR image.
      • Lynette going to try to follow Greg's instructions for AWS install
      • Greg looking at where to store docker images. Don't have permission for dockerhub but Greg looking at public AWS repo

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
    • Sessions approved
  • SWIB virtual again this year - No proposals submitted

Next Meeting(s), anyone out?:

  • 2021-08-20 - 
  • 2021-08-27 - Jason will lead, Simeon out, Lynette may be out, Huda out


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