Date:

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

Regrets: Lynette

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
    • https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PgQi3xobsPhr9DUHU_YGeimL1OjNiiTdkiNWb36r3Gg/edit
    • Usability testing and followup for DASH: Usability results
    • 2021-10-22
      • User reps comfortable to add only photograph and biographical representation, and library holdings section. Working on this now to get a prototype branch ready for the November D&A sprint, review next Thursday. Now have author page (without timeline) and knowledge panel with wikidata image and description. Huda and Tim will continue to work on this. Will have means for override in specific cases where the data is bad
      • Jason notes plans for getting more URIs in MARC. Steven notes work ongoing to do this and question of getting this into the Solr index, might need to discuss with Frances
      • Need to cope gracefully with external data sources being unavailable
      • Still need to work on finishing documentation and set up a demo. Can tell whole story of experimentation, usability tests, review from D&A user reps and scaled back production version
  • 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.
    • 2021-10-22 - No work on BANG this last week, focus on DASH
  • DAG Calls
    • 2021-10-22 - Amy on call next Tuesday, after that only a couple of calls left this year

Linked-Data Authority Support (WP2)

  • Qa Sinopia Collaboration – Support and evolve QA+cache instance for use with Sinopia
  • Best Practices for Authoritative Data working group (focus on Change Management)
  • Cache Containerization Plan - Develop a sustainable solution that others can deploy
    • 2021-10-22
      • The plan for moving the containerization process forward state so far is...
        • DONE - Lynette will clean up the images in ECR
        • PARTIALLY DONE - Lynette will get the github-actions deploying images.
          • DONE for the private repos.
          • IN PROCESS - Still working on the public repo.  I believe I have a solution but need to test it.
        • IN PROCESS - Lynette will update the env file to allow for initializers to draw their values from that file.
        • IN PROCESS - Greg can walk Lynette through setting up -int.  This should identify…
          • what can be done by a moderate privileged user and what has to be done by a sys opts user
          • make changes/additions to documentation as needed
        • Lynette will move the templates to a new github repo
        • Lynette will setup -stg except where sys opts privileges are required to proceed.
      • Greg working in setting up different parts in public and private repos

Other Topics

  • Sinolio - Sinopia-FOLIO
    • 2021-10-22: Have not worked on the FOLIO tasks yet. Monday is the next sprint kick-off... and I am told that this sprint will have more FOLIO work.
  • OCLC Linked Data / Entities Advisory Group
    • 2021-10-22: There was a meeting this week. Libraries were invited to share their reactions to the work. Most folks mentioned it shows promise, and they look forward to being able to interact with it as an editor. The editor work should be shareable in November. Unlike VIAF (with is strictly machine generated), the entity data will be both batch created AND able to be edited by catalogers. Local Authorities could be a good use case. There were some discussions about integration with other tools (Sinopia, etc.)
  • PCC 
    • 2021-10-15: Task Group on Non-RDA Entities - slight change in how POCO expects this vocab to be implemented, which effects some of the examples. Once done, will work with Kevin on specific issues converting to RDF
    • 2021-10-22 Some work to encode examples in MARC, will be sent to LC for review
  • Authorities in FOLIO
    • 2021-10-15 Frances has database she is using for discovery. She has begun to successfully parse weekly Peter Ward files and updating her database. will then test whether that database can serve as source. Meeting every-other-week. Nick is investigating creating a GUI rather than spreadsheets; question about how much to invest, given that this would be a local solution and no other libraries are identified yet to do work this way.
    • 2021-10-22 Next meeting on Monday

Upcoming meetings

  • https://kula.uvic.ca/index.php/kula/announcement/view/1 .  Call for Proposals - Special Issue: "The Metadata Issue: Metadata as Knowledge".  
  • WikidataCon; suggested we present Activity Streams in that. Lynette will reach out to Lydia to see whether good fit. Happening sometime around 10/30.
  • 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 institutional demo and possibly demo work. Meeting with Melissa after this call as they did it last year. 5-6 minutes total
    • Demo videos due by 11/3

Next Meeting(s), anyone out?:

  • 2021-10-29 - Jason out

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