Date:

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

Regrets:  Steven

Discovery (WP3)

Linked-Data Authority Support (WP2)

  • Qa Sinopia Collaboration – Support and evolve QA+cache instance for use with Sinopia
    • 2021-08-20
      • No meeting with Stanford this week.  I provided Michelle a report in Slack of the first year activities and expected work for the final year.
      • Dave and I went over the Authorities project board.  There are several issues that require input from Steven for prioritization.  There are two issues that Dave is pursuing. 
        • Issue #126 add additional subauthorities for geonames to limit results to common `person populated areas` (e.g. city, state, province, country)
        • Issue #133 allow exact match to be case-insensitive, but if there are multiple matches and one is a case match, then rank case match 1
  • Best Practices for Authoritative Data working group (focus on Change Management)
    • 2021-08-20 Reviewed Activity Streams min extensions document.  Mostly acceptable.  A major decision is to make the primary stream a simple notification of the changes and add an `instrument` property that holds the RDF_Patch or other encoding that expresses the changes that occurred.  We are also looking at having an OrderedCollection that has all changes since the last baseline complete dump.  The process for end users for incremental updates is go to the `last` entry in the stream, walk backward until you find your last processed date, and then walk forward processing the updates in order.  I still need to update the document to reflect these changes.
  • Cache Containerization Plan - Develop a sustainable solution that others can deploy
    • 2021-08-20
      • Lynette has auto-build/deploy of the qa_server_container image going to a test repo.  Issue #38 Adding an auto-build/deploy that goes to a public repo keyed off a github release of the main branch will be trivial once the public repo is created in ECR.
      • Lynette going to try to follow Greg's instructions for AWS install
      • Lynette checked in with Justin Littman about our application for open-source license on dockerhub.  He hasn't heard anything, so he reapplied last Friday.
      • Greg looking at where to store docker images. Don't have permission for dockerhub but Greg looking at public AWS repo

Other Topics

  • Sinolio - Sinopia-FOLIO
    • 2021-08-20 Jason has shared use-cases with Michelle, Jason to follow up on scope
  • 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
  • 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?:

  • 2021-08-27 - Cancel

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