Attendees: Huda, Greg, Jason, Simeon

Regrets: Steven

Linked Data Summit in DC

  • Focus will be library data, we aren't sure how hard that line will
  • Brainstorming session organized by OCLC, desire to come up with good use cases the highlight linked-data
  • Travel plans - Huda, Greg, Simeon, Jason all set

Discovery (WP3)

  • https://github.com/LD4P/discovery/projects/2 for issues etc. 
  • Research: how to go from knowledge graph to an index
  • BANG! (Bibliographic Aspects Newly GUI'd)
    • 2022-10-20
      • Video complete; uploaded
      • Lessons learned and documentation still outstanding; should be done by soon after 10/20
  • BAM! WOW! (Browsing Across Music With Obtainable Wikidata)  
    • 2022-10-13
      • Kevin (Stanford) returned spreadsheet of properties present in Wikidata that are not commonly found in library metadata for musical works – to help guide which data would be an enhancement; need to monitor for additional content. Steven wrote query connecting musical work to what it was created for (e.g.: song created for a soundtrack) AND finding if LCCN exists... to then query whether we have that in the catalog.
      • Huda started a GH branch - plan is to pick use cases and set something up that represents that (e.g.: musical work in catalog has info button to Work that'll include K-number and other properties). pulled latest from Blacklight-Cornell and having issues getting Dev to run – D&A has been in multi-week updating to Ruby3; what is in Dev right now will not run in without significant updates to machine and code. Greg'll need to make tasks to get work done; not insignificant effort.
        • Hoping to go live with the new D&A code today or early next week; can start work for LD4P to run this code right away – will take a new work days but has good notes since has run this twice for D&A. Not urgent need.
    • 2022-10-20
      • Worked on setting up info box on item page.  Info box retrieves information in this way: get values from "authortitle_facet" field, parses to remove "|" to generate a form that can  be used to query the LOC suggest service for name title authorities, uses the localname to query against Wikidata for properties of interest.  Currently displaying heading, Wikidata entity, date of first performance, location of first performance, and music created for.  Next steps are to add remaining properties of interest from Kevin Kishomoto's group's spreadsheet.  
        • Options for display: Repurposing author title browse page similar to how we updated the author and subject browse pages to include more information, or incorporating information into the item page similar to how we incorporated Discogs information
      • Greg getting some errors from Solr backup scrip that need investigating
  • DAG Calls
    • 2022-10-06: Have nothing planned for next week! (Except if the folio metadata people are ready, otherwise we might cancel). National Library of Sweden's up for the second session on October 25!

Linked-Data Authority Support (WP2)

  • Qa Sinopia Collaboration - Meetings with Stanford will only occur on an as needed basis. Authority request issues: https://github.com/LD4P/qa_server/projects/1 (prioritized based on "important" authorities and ease of completion)
    • 2022-10-06
      • Greg and Steven have been working with Dave on new LOC Countries authority. Still running into problem that the cache is crashing, need more guidance from Dave
      • Yesterday Steven got a request for a change of context, result of PCC meeting last week
    • 2022-10-13
      • Continue to try to troubleshoot getting countries to run. Proposed standing short meetings for the foreseeable future to work through issues.
      • A request for context changes to LCNAF has raised a question about whether Dave has indexed the fullest RDF representation. https://github.com/LD4P/qa_server/issues/492
      • Asking Dave for a recurring meeting to knock out a couple issues/week
      • FOR NEXT WEEK with Simeon: How can we let Dave retire: someone to run triplestores, run lucene index, make sense of Dave's code. Dave has a lot of hand-built infrastructure on his premise that we cannot economically replicate. Greg put up containerized LD4P services but the indexers that run, query and create caches has not been done and we don't have resources to do that – another big project. Only going to get worse. Need a plan.
    • 2022-10-20
      • Working to discuss plans with Dave
  • Best Practices for Authoritative Data working group (focus on Change Management)
    • 2022-10-13
      • Steven is still organizing repo, tagging individuals to think about work before next meeting.
  • Containerizing the QaServer - DONE
    • 2022-08-04 Greg digging in to terraform as a potential replacement for cloudformation, not ready to move yet!
    • 2022-09-15 Still exploring, have only tried baby steps so far. Need to focus on current system first
  • Containerizing the Cache Indices
    • 2022-07-21 : No progress. Have not heard anything from Dave; Jason will ask him at Monday's PI meeting to respond to Greg
    • 2022-08-04 There wasn't a PIs meeting so haven't yet checked with Dave

Other Topics

  • POD & SHARE-VDE... should this team interact with that re: use cases, data analysis or other?
    • 2022-09-15: Tech services reps from Columbia, Cornell, Penn, Stanford and Yale met to outline work. Will be acclimating ourselves to both SVDE and POD in coming weeks; once we better understand the state of things, will better define use cases. Casalini expects it to take a few months to set up the SVDE instance for POD.
    • 2022-10-13: meeting tomorrow
  • Sinolio - Sinopia-FOLIO
    • Possibly next work cycle toward end 2022; with LC now in FOLIO-land; how will MARVA be integrated?
    • 2022-10-20 - No news on possible work cycle
  • Entity Management in FOLIO
    • 2022-10-13: first meeting was last week. Will be meeting every-other-week starting 10/25.
  • CUL Authorities in FOLIO
    • 2022-10-20 Steven sent update to stakeholders
  • BIBFRAME Interoperability Group (BIG) - Steven Cornell rep and Jason alternate
    • 2022-10-06 Had demo from National Library of Sweden; Library of Congress, OCLC, the Share Virtual Discovery Environment (SVDE), and Stanford University created a list of interoperability Use Cases in December 2021 and BIG is now creating a list of add-on use cases important to a functioning ecosystem that allows for editing/linking to/caching/etc. of BIBFRAME data.

Upcoming meetings/presentations

  • "Linked Data Summit" and LD4P Fall meeting and Interoperability meeting, DC, November 7-9  at LC
    • Linked Data Summit, Mon 7 + Tue 8 Nov (likely mostly in person, possibly presentations hybrid)
      • Discovery Use Cases leveraging linked data.
        • 2022-10-13: Huda, Steven, Filip, LC, OCLC (facilitators), SHARE-VDE were in a brainstorming session to plan the meeting. Added references to Cornell's work – recap across LD4P2 and LD4P3 and Blacklight Linked Data Working Meeting at Stanford in 2019. At beginning of LD4P3, created list of every use case we've ever discussed; added as reference. Added good outcomes for the meeting (use cases - and how/why useful). Next conversation about impact vs support vs effort.
    • LD4P Fall meeting, Wed 9 Nov, 9am-4pm (hybrid)
    • Attendance plans: Huda & Steven in person 3 days, Greg probably in person for Wed 9.
    • Agenda has a question of how people understand when data changes in data. Attempting to make a connection with Metadata Management API and Getty and LOC's Activity Streams.
  • Charleston Conference 2022
  • SWIB (virtual) - https://swib.org/swib22/. Nov 28 - Dec 2
    • Data provenance and transparency in UI
    • Updated abstract based on reviewer recommendations
    • 2022-10-20 - Registration open

Next Meeting(s), anyone out?:

2022-10-27 - Simeon out, Jason will lead


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