Date:

Attendees: Steven, Huda, Jason, Simeon

Regrets: Greg, 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)
    • 2022-01-28 
      • Only things left are formatting of writeup and finishing off documentation. Aiming for next week
  • 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.
    • 2021-12-10
      • To dos: Still need to use the work to work relationships data (which is based on a partial query run) (i.e. related, etc.) and bring that to the page.  Will try to get that done by end of year. 
        • Using Wikidata relationships between item and IMDB to get appropriate IMDB link 
        • Design work/review options for displaying information to users (works/instances and how/whether to modify the current catalog view focus on item)
    • 2022-01-21
      • Starting data source writeup
        • Overview tries to get at counts for information. 
        • Started some diagrams
        • Deep thought seems to perform better for some of these queries so used that for some of the counts
      • Decided to take work to work relationship ISBNs to see which pairs had matches in our catalog (i.e. work1 and work2 have a relationship, work1 has an instance i1, work2 has an instance i2, result = ISBNs for i1 and i2).  Saw overlap between ISBNs from different works and tracking that down with Steven.
      • Also: ran work to work relationship query again (where first work has instance with ISBN) to get complete result. Used this approach because trying to run a full query was taking forever. Second script tries to get instances with ISBNs for second works to create two groups of ISBNs and the predicate relating the two works
        • 33,395 lines in result (i.e. potential sets of related ISBNs)
        • But: Need to review to see how many of these include the same ISBN on both sides of the relationship (i.e. run yet another script)
        • And: How many of these matching groups will have catalog results
      • Will also run comparable queries on Stanford CKB data (the latest ShareVDE data)
      • Besides report, will work on bringing above work to work relationships,  Wikidata queries Tim and Steven had reviewed (for properties not usually found in our catalog) and IMDB connections into demo
    • 2022-01-28
      • Huda extending data source writeup and will spend a couple of days building a tool to characterize/explore data in DAVE
      • What past research is there on works and what is useful to users? 
        • K Coyle and K Godby work from a few years ago suggested ways to find particular expressions (bf: works) useful, works (bf: hubs / opera) help users get there
        • Steven to check past D&A user studies
  • DAG Calls
    • 2022-01-28
      • Upcoming crossover episodes (DAG/WAG) (announcements forthcoming). Also session with archival focus: 3/1.
      • Lots of interest in Cornell deployment. Huda gave presentation at ARLIS wikidata group (questions about connecting images that can't follow wikimedia license), 2/24 giving presntation to PCC/Sinopia interest group; 3/9 ALA Linked Data interface group; 3/11 ALA Catalog form and function group

Linked-Data Authority Support (WP2)

  • Qa Sinopia Collaboration
    • 2022-01-21 
      • Met this week to to talk about new vocab requests.  General consensus is that there are unlikely to be many requests because we've already hit the big ones.  Known current requests that are a priority include new ISNI rdf download and Homosaurus.  There are existing requests that we probably should check in on to see if they are still needed and then determine priority (i.e. RBMS, ORCID, DCMI, CCL, GAMECIP, OLAC's Videogame Genre)
        • Steven will review additional suggestions and discuss with Nancy
      • Dave has already created a triple store of the new ISNI RDF download including a Fuseki end point.  Steven did the review for extended context, https://github.com/LD4P/qa_server/issues/14#issuecomment-1018554436.  It is in Dave's court for generating the index.  Want support for searching by URI.
      • Dave is looking to switch indexing from Lucene to Elastic Search.  He wants to do this before starting the containerization process.
        • Lynette to discuss ongoing maintenance issues for ES vs Lucene, we have mostly Solr expertise in CUL
      • Dave believes he fixed a race condition that was causing the 500 errors.  I'm not seeing the EOFError in the logs, but I am seeing RDF::Graph#load failure: IOError.  So this may be something else going on.
      • I reported suspicious access to SYSOPTS (e.g. requests to wp, python, .env, etc.)  More info in at DLITSYS-4557. No response from SYSOPTS yet.
  • Best Practices for Authoritative Data working group (focus on Change Management) 
    • 2022-01-21
      • We meet next Monday.
      • There was discussion in Slack about the usage of Add vs. Create.  I believe we have settled on Create indicating the entity is brand new and Add indicating that the entity wasn't available and now it is (e.g. permission change, temporary removal reinstated, etc.)  I expect Remove and Delete to follow a similar pattern.
  • Containerization
    • 2022-01-21 
      • Greg out for a month. 
      • I checked in with Justin about progress.  He stated... "I never got it to work correctly.  I think the problem came down to networking."
      • Next up is containerization of cache.  Probably starting in Feb.

Other Topics

  • Github branch renaming
    • See Renaming of LD4P Repositories – cul/blacklight-cornell now uses main and master has been deleted
    • Expect to be able switch this in LD4P as part of D&A work
    • 1/28: Fetched upstream and deleted master branch in LD4P blacklight-cornell fork.
  • Sinolio - Sinopia-FOLIO
    • 2021-12-17 - Work Cycle finished, sprint video out
  • OCLC Linked Data / Entities Advisory Group
    • 2021-12-10 OCLC presented at bigheads meeting this week, in testing
  • PCC 
    • 2021-01-21 Definitions and non-RDA final report to POCO (hopefully) to be submitted next week
    • 2022-01-14 Nothing new to report.
  • Authorities in FOLIO
    • 2022-01-14 Working on "deletes" workflow (actually deprecation with replacement process for references). Current workflow uses browse in Blacklight and benefits from links into FOLIO
    • 2022-01-29 Making good progress, in part because of new Slack channel. Doing user acceptance tests for FOLIO Authorities module
  • Upcoming presentations: Discussion on knowledge panels and Cornell Wikidata integration1/24 ARLIS/NA x Wikidata, and catalog form and function IG presentation March 11, 3-4pm (hope to also get Steven (smile))

Upcoming meetings

Next Meeting(s), anyone out?:

  • 2022-02-04 - 

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