Date:

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

Regrets: 

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
      • 2021-09-17: No update
        • User reps meeting went well and they planned to set up doc for others to provide feedback. Huda has questions to add to that doc but have not heard back; Huda Khan  will reach out to Lenora to ask about status. Question: are people more comfortable sending email responses versus a wiki page, etc.? Huda will offer this option.
      • 2021-09-24: Huda emailed Lenora again and mentioned option for folks to email her feedback directly.  Have not heard back yet (sent email yesterday)
      • 2021-10-01: Last email discussion: Lenora said she would try to get feedback from user reps.  We have requested feedback by 10/11 since the next D&A spring starts 11/1. 
    • 2020-10-1: Separately, need to finish documentation of work done so far and set up demo video.
  • 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.
    • 2021-10-01: Experimented with various queries.  For retrieving sets of related ISBNS, queried for following relationship: An opus that has two separate works, where each work has an instance with an ISBN.  Parsed the results to create a CSV where each line starts with an ISBN and is followed by all the others related ISBNS (based on the query above).  Set up front-end code that takes ISBN from catalog, looks for any line with that ISBN and returns the entire set, then does an ISBN field "OR" query to the Solr index to return any matches with their titles. 
      • Questions to explore:
        • What is the goal of an Opus? And is this conceptually useful for users?
        • What is the data quality (both of the Opus data and connection via ISBN)?
        • What is the gap in data for CUL?
        • What is a good UI for display of this data? And should there be different UI for translations vs. based on, etc.?
      • Next steps: Huda will look for more specific relationships in the data (e.g. LCCN matching). Huda/Tim to explore UI options. Also look for definitions of opuses and hubs
  • DAG Calls
    • 2021-10-1: Next two meetings will be usability/user research focused: 10/12 with LINCS, 10/26 with Harvard image research/IIIF D4H user research.

Linked-Data Authority Support (WP2)

  • Qa Sinopia Collaboration – Support and evolve QA+cache instance for use with Sinopia
    • 2021-10-01 - Met with Stanford with topics...
      • some weirdness in results (e.g. '\\' for label, bad response total leading to no pagination)
      • language in literals (e.g. "milk@en" instead of "milk"@en) - Dave updated this on his end.  Requires an update in QA.
      • review status of authorities (e.g. script, cultural heritage)
      • new authority request for publisher cities - Jim Hahn will provide a QA compatible file of cities to include (historically this is just a literal so there hasn't been a good lockup/authority)
  • Best Practices for Authoritative Data working group (focus on Change Management)
    • 2021-10-01 - Need to update Appendices based on last week's discussion.  Need to review object type proposals from Steven and Vitus.
      • We'll need to decide how much the RWO/Authority/RDF document distinction made in the ActivityStreams spec we want to adhere to.
      • Steven will look at how the Getty and LOC implementations of AS are dealing with this.
  • Cache Containerization Plan - Develop a sustainable solution that others can deploy
    • 2021-09-24 Greg set up for load testing of the containerized QA server and will start that today.
    • 2021-10-01 Greg continuing with load testing. Finding it stable but not as responsive as elastic beanstalk version (avg from 0.5s to 1–1.5s) – need to understand why. Also still some work needed to implement CI/CD

Other Topics

  • Sinolio - Sinopia-FOLIO
    • 2021-10-01 Sprint review this afternoon. Recent meeting to try to better describe Sinopia-FOLIO connection in a diagram
  • OCLC Linked Data / Entities Advisory Group
    • 2021-09-24 Steven will follow-up on testing for this round
  • PCC 
    • 2021-10-01: Task Group on Non-RDA Entities - definitions firmed up, agreed on non-URI codes, reflecting those in the spreadsheet over the next week, and working with Kevin on specific issues converting to RDF
  • 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)
    • 2021-09-17: Met last week. Frances has database she is using for discovery. She is going to start looking at strategy for parsing weekly Peter Ward files and updating her database. will then test whether that database can serve as source. Meeting every-other-week.

Upcoming meetings

  • https://kula.uvic.ca/index.php/kula/announcement/view/1 .  Call for Proposals - Special Issue: "The Metadata Issue: Metadata as Knowledge".  
  • SWIB (11/29-12/3) virtual again this year - No proposals submitted
  • Virtual Blacklight Summit in 8-10 November. Last year had an institutional update from Cornell; can do this again. And/or can propose a session on the LD4P discovery work. Informal CFP has gone out.
    • Huda Khan has filled out form to offer institutionals demo and possibly demo work
    • Demo videos due by 11/3

Next Meeting(s), anyone out?:

  • 2021-10-08 Greg will be out

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