Date:

Attendees: Huda, Jason, Greg, Lynette, Simeon

Regrets: Steven

Discovery (WP3)

Linked-Data Authority Support (WP2)

  • Qa Sinopia Collaboration
    • 2022-04-01
      • Two new direct access authorities (i.e. Bibbi and Norwegian thesaurus on genre and form) are ready to release in support of the Norwegian project that is using Sinopia. 
      • homosaurus - Dave says he plans to index today.  I'm hoping to include it in a release with the Norwegian authorities later today.
      • Dave still needs to fix of total_number_found to make pagination work to get pagination working again in Sinopia.  Once that is done, it will just feed through to Sinopia without any additional work.
      • Met with OCLC last Friday.  They were mostly interested in our use cases and pain points.
  • Best Practices for Authoritative Data working group (focus on Change Management) 
    • 2022-04-01
      • Met with Stanford devs to discuss updating cached labels in Sinopia.  We discussed why this is desirable, a bit about the entire ecosystem (e.g. Sinopia editing, conversion to MARC, generation of discovery index), and where all this is going in the long term.  One concern is that the current index for Sinopia doesn't store individual field values, so it would be hard to locate labels.  Dave described a project where he indexes jsonld in elastic search such that fields are available for search.  From that, Jeremy proposed that airflow could be a solution for processing activity streams and updating labels.  All of this feels like future planning since this work is not currently on the Sinopia work plan and very few authorities have activity streams at this time. (notes)
      • Met with David Newberry from Getty to discuss their activity streams.  We were looking at how they compared to LOC and how Dave E. can process them for the cache.  The document you land on for a given activity is very large with lots of external references.  This is going to be harder to process for updating the cache.  (notes)
      • Wrote up the process for consuming LOC in the the EMM Change Document API based on the discussion with Kevin at LOC.
      • Next regular full group meeting is Monday.
  • Containerization 
    • 2022-04-01
      • Containerizing the QaServer
        • -int and -stg images are built with the env variables that support customization. (LD4P/qa_server_container)
        • created cul-it/qa_server_aws_deploy repo to hold our customizations.  It is currently just a fork of the LD4P/qa_server_aws_deploy repo.  The plan is to put the set of authority files we support in this repo, and the footer customizations.  Explored a github action that will copy these customizations to our S3 which should be picked up automatically.  This provides a way for us to update authorities over time without having to manually copy them to S3.
        • Lifecycle questions still working on...
          • how to update out local deploy when the image changes?  This is proving tricky.  There is a way to have the actions that build the images announce the change using repository_dispatch, but so far, it looks like the only place that can process that is the LD4P/qa_server_container repo using a webhook.  What we want is all the downstream repos to be able to receive a message that they can process in a github action to update their deploys.
      • Containerizing the Cache Indices

Other Topics.

  • 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
    • 2022-03-25 Some transitions in team. Useful meeting with Jenn, Frances, Nick, and Darcy to decide what needs to be provided to build queue. Mockups look good and allow filtering on types of change (new, deleted, updated). Quite different indexing requirements for data maintenance vs discovery

Upcoming meetings/presentations

  • KULA submission for special Issue "The Metadata Issue: Metadata as Knowledge" accepted, final proof text that Huda will accept straightforward changes and ask group for final feedback by April 1. 

Next Meeting(s), anyone out?:

2022-04-01 - April Fool's - 

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