2021-11-05 Cornell LD4P3 Meeting notes

Date: 05 Nov 2021

Attendees: Greg, Jason, Tim, Huda, 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
  • Research decision points, Use cases 
• 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
    
    • Usability results, a few little things to finish up
    • GitHub issues
  • 2021-11-05
    • Didn't demo to user reps as that meeting got moved up to Wednesday
    • Doing demo for D&A team today
    • Have found some inconsistency in the structure of the data returned by id.loc.gov resulting in things showing or not if reloaded. It turns out that the data itself seems consistent so have been able to work around this. Will email Kevin to ask what might be going on
    • Tim has been working on code cleanup and making the layout consistent; and also using exclusion information from YAML config
    • Jason notes that as this moves toward production we'll have to think about who owns the exclusions file and how that will be maintained
• 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.
  • 2021-11-05 - No work on BANG this week, focus on DASH.
• DAG Calls
  
  • 2021-11-05 - Contacted Mark Matienzo and they commented that the "Lighting the Way Handbook" was just about to be published  https://library.stanford.edu/blogs/stanford-libraries-blog/2021/11/announcing-lighting-way-handbook 

Linked-Data Authority Support (WP2)

• Qa Sinopia Collaboration – Support and evolve QA+cache instance for use with Sinopia
  • 2021-11-05
    • No meeting this week
    • Assessment of the FAST Direct/Cache Alignment issue (https://github.com/LD4P/sinopia_editor/issues/2125): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1baAgyP3CtmJ31fTGYzRcykUE1RSS126L8U8f0UI7zIo/edit?usp=sharing
    • SF- Walked through this with Dave and Lynette and takeaways are:
      • https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rPvEoP9iYNkxJ0eWC8gXe3ci7e6mhW0da59xkGhadi0/edit#gid=502967565
        • Green means this row is ok to act on (probably the same or similar to how it was set up before).
        • Yellow means notable change (likely requiring change to the queries, but ok to act on).
        • Red means there's a problem either on how we ingested the data, or the SVDE data itself. We saw similar issues with the last batch of data.
  • Requests from Sinopia team - all released to production
    • cul-it/qa_server - update Swagger API to include local and module access (PR #312)
    • QA - fetch by URI (PR #343)
    • QA - return URI in local authority results (e.g. property_type, property_attribute, publisher city names) (PR #342)
• Best Practices for Authoritative Data working group (focus on Change Management)
  • 2021-11-05 - no meeting
    • Next week plan to work on context and updating recommendation document
• Cache Containerization Plan - Develop a sustainable solution that others can deploy
  
  • 2021-11-05
    • Stanford plans to test installation instructions when ready.
    • Explored some of the additional customizations.  Feeling like it is getting too flexible such that it negates the benefits of containerization.  As this is an admin UI and not user facing, looking at limiting customizations to critical pieces. (e.g. not css, yes i18n)
    • Worked on improving documentation.
    • Greg...
    • The plan for moving the containerization process forward state so far is...
      • DONE - Lynette will clean up the images in ECR
      • DONE - Lynette will get the github-actions deploying images.
        • DONE for the private repos.
        • DONE - 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
        • Greg identified a way to make the copy authorities to EFS mount  a process of copying to S3  and then it will automatically copy to EFS 
        • Other potential customizations described in Issue #44
      • Lynette will move the templates to a new github repo
      • Lynette will setup -stg except where sys opts privileges are required to proceed.

Other Topics

• Github branch renaming
  • See Renaming of LD4P Repositories – cul/blacklight-cornell now uses main
  • Expect to be able switch this in LD4P as part of D&A work
• Sinolio - Sinopia-FOLIO
  
  • 2021-11-05 - Retrospective for 2 week sprint today, some discussion around expected UI. Expect to engage in new sprint which will stand up new FOLIO instance for this work
• OCLC Linked Data / Entities Advisory Group
  • 2021-11-05 Lynette involved in meeting with John Chapman to discuss integration.  "meeting with OCLC to look at integrations of Sinopia/QA with their entity backbone via their new API platform"  Meeting will include most of the Sinopia team.  Not clear who will attend on the OCLC side.
• PCC 
  
  • 2021-10-22 Some work to encode non-RDA examples in MARC, will be sent to LC for review
  • 2021-10-27 Definitions and examples continued to shift, but should be able to finalize the spreadsheet that generates the RDF today.
  • 2021-11-04- Nothing new to report.
• 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.
  • 2021-10-29 Met this week, Frances thinking about data model for activities/events in order to support GUI. Steven watching possible shift in goals from spreadsheets to app development and how that might affect timeline
  • 2021-11-04 Laura, Julia, Jenn and Steven met this week to discuss getting URIs in our MARC records. We're going to try to abide by the same decisions reflected in OCLC's export options for URIs. Because every imaginable process for getting URIs relies on string matching we're meeting again next week to define scope and matching algorithms so that we're not adding a bunch of bad URIs.
• Authors, Authority, and Identity: Facilitating Self-Identification for Discovery and Inclusive Knowledge Production was an impressive Harvard Hosted event (2021-11-03) about the ethics of authorities and who has agency over metadata about people and their identities.

Upcoming meetings

• https://kula.uvic.ca/index.php/kula/announcement/view/1 .  Call for Proposals - Special Issue: "The Metadata Issue: Metadata as Knowledge".  
  
  • Folder Link, CFP + Brainstorming
  • Huda will schedule a meeting to discuss response to reviews
• 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 - Huda and Melissa have worked on the video, including mention of the Discogs work from LD4P
    

Next Meeting(s), anyone out?:

• 2021-11-12 Jason out