Date:

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

Regrets:  Huda

Next week: Simeon out, Jason will run

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
      • 2021-09-03
        • Positive meeting with D&A user reps. General attitude is that some form should go into production at some stage. Left reps with access to site and Lenora will collect feedback by end September
        • Some concerns about performance, don't want to slow the item view page
        • Like design philosophy of clicking to see more rather than overloading page
        • Tim did some work this week to indicate source and to better fill out the publication timeline with images, uses google where there are gaps in wikidata (this can be slow if had to get isbn then call Google)
        • Tim has looked at sources for influences site (Cambridge, MLA) but not found an API that can be used – on hold 
  • 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.
    • 2021-09-03
      • Huda via Slack - I had to unzip that pcc data file. Ran a few small queries directly using curl and command line initiated fuseki server. Will run larger queries soon.
  • DAG Calls
    • 2021-09-03 had a call with Amy regarding presentation on 9/14. She will talk about Harvard UX research around image discovery as well as IIIF UX research.  Email will be sent out soon. LINCS (Kim Martin) has also responded.  Seems like they will be scheduled for October but we need to confirm with them.

Linked-Data Authority Support (WP2)

  • Qa Sinopia Collaboration – Support and evolve QA+cache instance for use with Sinopia
    • 2021-09-03
      • Spent a good bit of time discussion Issue #126 which looks at adding subauthorities for geonames to limit results to common `person populated areas` (e.g. city, state, province, country).  There is not an agreement within the group that this is a priority.  There was discussion about other approaches like using machine learning to create an authority of publisher cities.  Seemed to be a general opinion that this would be nice, but not if it causes other scheduled work to drop off.  Dave plans to explore the new subauth for PPA.
  • Best Practices for Authoritative Data working group (focus on Change Management)
    • 2021-09-03 Reviewed Activity Streams min extensions document (2021-08-30 version)  Mostly acceptable.  Changes since last time:
      • adds usage examples of the entry point Activity Stream (OrderedCollection) including links to first and last page
      • adds usage examples of pages of Activities (OrderedCollectionPage) including links to previous and next page
      • uses core activity types Create, Delete, Update
      • changes name of extended activity types to Deprecate, Merge, Split
      • extracts out rdf_patch and sparql from the Activity by using the instrument property to point to a simple Object that has the patch/query defined in the content property of the object
  • Cache Containerization Plan - Develop a sustainable solution that others can deploy
    • 2021-09-03
      • Lynette - nothing new this week
      • Greg
        • Working on getting the container QA service hooked up to appropriate authorities so we can move it toward production. Will continue to work on this and document the gotchas for other people
        • Have public ECR repos for different branches of the code, with updates from github working
        • Have spun up new Solr cluster for FOLIO 

Other Topics

  • Sinolio - Sinopia-FOLIO
    • 2021-09-03: Sinolio work cycle kick off meeting happened on Monday afternoon. If anyone would like info on the two work cycles, see: (start on slide #26 for current work); feel free to follow-up with questions. There are essentially two concurrent work cycles: one on Sinopia (including but not limited to connecting to the Stanford ILS) and one on Sinolio. Michelle and Jeremy presented at FOLIO's MM-SIG on Thursday; feedback from group was very positive. MM-SIG will engage with BF to FOLIO Inventory mapping. Plan is to have push from Sinopia→FOLIO, work needs to track external source of data in FOLIO (cf. GBV work) and maybe support link out to Sinopia and block editing in FOLIO. Work cycle will run to Oct 15
  • 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
    • 2021-09-03 Working on non-RDA types- we have tentative definitions for person, corporate body, family, conference, spirit, figure from folklore/legend/mythology, named animal or plant, fictitious entity, and event. We have maybe one or two more entity types to work out, then share for vetting before approaching LC for hosting.
    • 2021-09-03 BIBFRAME Data Exchange meeting - firming up schedule, including a set of lightning talks on Friday from vendors to share where they see themselves in the dataflow ecosystem... publisher, consumer, aggregator/lookup service, conversion, etc. plans for caching/linking to from.
  • Authorities in FOLIO
    • Hope to include URIs as part of Cornell FOLIO migration, possible LD4P work
    • 2021-09-03 - folks are on vacation, but work will pick up soon to work on
      • Processing and caching Authority files
        • Determine where it will be located so that it can be modified
      • Getting ID’s in BIBs 
      • Generating Reports (spreadsheets) on changes to authorities 
      • [Possibly?] Processes for batch updating headings (table this until we meet in September)

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?:

  • 2021-09-10 - Simeon, Tim

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