2022-06-17 Cornell LD4P3 Meeting notes

Date: 17 Jun 2022

Attendees: 

Regrets: Greg

Discussion with Tracey Snyder

• Tracey is member of MLA linked data working group. They have a list of project ideas for linked data in music. Will use wikidata: Popular one is thematic catalogs for composers:
  • Thematic catalogs are the (e.g. the K numbers for Mozart are the Köchel catalog, but this have been refined many time). Idea is to make concordance between such catalogs. Vivaldi has similar and wikidata is short on Vivaldi data. Idea is to build concordance
  • Beth Kelley is not part of MLA group but would be very interested in participating
  • We already linked to wikidata for author in 1xx and also NAF, but not for works
  • User experience?
    • Even without this project we could link from composer out to authority record
    • Could, like for author, have info box for the work
    • How is this done now? Currently in 1xx with possible also in 4xx
    • E.g. for Mozart, list all versions of Koechel number, NAF,
  • Information is obviously useful as display information but would also be useful as search information. This might be a case where information from wikidata might want to be added to the index. For some composers (e/g/ Mozart) the catalog number if added in the uniform title.
  • Approach might be something like the "cataloging code" pattern in https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5064 https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81081247.html
  • Expected timeline? MLA group is informal working group, haven't talked about process for concordance but might like to have something to show for March meeting
  • Next steps:
    • Jason can coordinate Beth working on this project, Tracey would likely participate as well
    • Huda suggests exploration of use cases for this additional data
      • Search by an alternate K number and still find work with information
      • Versions of same work
      • Extra data (by hover or display) that helps user know that they have specific item
    • Tracey will reach back out 
• Another idea is about names (not works) associated with experimental works
  • Various composers have entries in LCNAF, in VIAF, in MusicBranz and in Wikidata
  • Idea would be to use wikidata more, instead of the name authority file
• Other ideas
  • Large collections are often cataloged with limited  

Linked-Data Authority Support (WP2)

• Qa Sinopia Collaboration - Meetings with Stanford will only occur on an as needed basis
  • Steven asked Dave to meet next week to go over remaining Authority request issues, https://github.com/LD4P/qa_server/projects/1 (which has be prioritized based on "important" authorities and ease of completion)
  • 2022-06-17 Steven will work with Greg next Friday to update the QA authorities
• Best Practices for Authoritative Data working group (focus on Change Management) 
  • Next meeting is Monday June 6 - Have asked for input on the status of the document
• Containerization 
  
  • Containerizing the QaServer 
    • 2022-06-04 Old Elasticbeanstalk QA server shut down. Will do remaining tidy to delete old environment
  • Containerizing the Cache Indices
    • 2022-06-03 Lucene index server working on AWS, had a good experience building with Terraform. Dave confirmed data good. Will reach out to Dave next week to talk about how to move forward. Current process for getting a new index up is to put is in S3 and when container starts up it copies this from S3

Discovery (WP3)

• https://github.com/LD4P/discovery/projects/2 for issues etc. 
• Research: how to go from knowledge graph to an index
  • Research decision points, Use cases 
• 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.
  • References/bibliography list (beginning)
  • BANG! preliminary design-ish/data questions link
  • 2022-06-17
    • Huda hopes to start usability testing next week
    • Huda and Steven have worked on creating and indexing Sinopia instance and work objects for the Dune series
• DAG Calls
  • No updates
  • 6/7: Code4Lib recap and talking about our BANG! work, 6/21: Have preliminary ok for an Ethics in LD crossover : )

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
  • 2022-06-03 Meet every two. weeks. Frances has been busy with POD/ReShare work. LTS have a set of use cases to discuss with Frances in the context of the Solr index and API she is creating
• PCC Interoperability Group (Steven is CUL representative)
  • 2022-06-03 Still just forming, hasn't met yet

Upcoming meetings/presentations

• LD4 conference - 2 proposals from Huda and Steven submitted
  
  • Huda has selected presentation option
• WOLFcon
• SWIB (virtual) - submissions due 27 June
  • Data provenance and transparency in UI
• BF Europe (Budapest or virtual) - submissions due 30 June

Next Meeting(s), anyone out?:

2022-06-23 - Greg out