Attendees: Greg, Simeon, Huda, Steven,

Regrets: 

DC Debrief

  • LD4P Partner Meetings
    • Want to review which authorities we support in QA and, in particular, which we need to support in the cache. Steven will work on this
    • There was discussion of messaging about gains in discovery but we note that Steven and Huda have been on tour the last year or so giving talks. Huda thinks affinity group can be used
  • Linked Data Summit
    • Questions about how we might make progress toward a more fine-grained shared cataloging practice
    • Underlying goals
      • Shared creation of the most useful metadata 
      • Link to all appropriate data 
      • Use cataloger resources most effectively to improve discovery - focus work where most useful, low friction sharing work, connect to data
      • Avoid duplicated work
      • Build discovery systems that leverage the available data in usable ways

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)
    • 11/17:
      • Draft for lessons learned
      • Documentation for scripts for data analysis forthcoming
  • BAM! WOW! (Browsing Across Music With Obtainable Wikidata)  
    • 2022-10-27
      • Using properties provided by MLA librarians, experimenting with bringing in information to the Info pop-up
      • One SPARQL query for entity; updated code to look for multiple values for any property and then removes duplicates. Allows for grouping in the results/UI
      • Some properties require special handling - catalog codes (2 pieces of information that go together: catalog + code. Another is "music for", which has two pieces of data)
      • Example without results: Puccini's Turandot: our heading is different from the authorized heading. BIBID: 4983368. The author-title is constructed in this case for the raw data. Vendor record for NetLibrary, Inc. - is there a pattern we can use to better build the SOLR index (e.g.: using the first 600 as seen in 4983368)?
        • Question for Tracey - how do we increase coverage for the feature Huda is building? E.g. netlibrary 600s with correct Name/Title (not reflected in the author_title_facet)
        • Question for later: hide bad data through queries OR expose that and deal with it later?
        • Question: where should button to go to connect to existing author-title browse from the item-view?
        • Question: When to link back to the catalog, and when might want to link back to Wikidata for context about related thing (e.g.: work is dedicated to (person). (person) may have an LC heading, which can be used to pull up related resources... but if they do not, do we then link back to Wikidata?
      • Mid-November: get interviews with music students with what we have at that time and assess which pieces of information interest them; gather feedback.
    • 2022-11-17
      • Worked on bringing in information directly into the page as opposed to using the info box approach.  Did two different approaches for (a) single returned entity and (b) multiple entities (due to multiple author title facet values represented for the record where these values also link to LOC URIs with Wikidata connections).
        • Will work on updating the author title browse page to bring in this information.  At this point, leaving out putting in a  connection between the item page and the author title browse page, since unclear where that should go.
      • Tracey also provided a link to the Vivaldi Wikidata entry she and her group have been working on:  https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q114601197.  Will try to see if there is a library catalog item we could link to,
      • Usability testing/feedback: Reached out to Tracey to see if there are music students who we could recruit for getting feedback on prototype and to ask questions around what they may find useful.  Will reach out to finance department soon to start setting up gift cards.
        • Timeframe: early to mid Decemberish
      • Will plan to wrap up this phase in January, after the user tests. Perhaps will have a discussion with D&A in January.
      • Post-January - might use Usability Working Group for testing
  • DAG Calls
    • 2022-11-17 - Meeting next Tuesday, likely will discuss coordination.

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)
    • 2022-11-17
      • Countries have been pushed to production
      • ACTION ITEM: Steven to spend time thinking about how to minimize QA footprint/commitments for lookups needed by the Sinopia/PCC Users. What lookups should use the QA direct option? What lookups should use data provider APIs? (LOC data). What lookups aren't currently being used in Sinopia. How do we think about stale caches?
  • Best Practices for Authoritative Data working group (focus on Change Management)
    • 2022-10-27: considering de-nesting related activities and proposed strategy to handle placeholder for any number of different properties between entities; have feedback and plan to simplify proposal. Addresses issues ranging from nesting, deprecation, merges, splits. Once decided, will need to update recommendations
    • 2022-11-17 Haven't met in a while due to travel. TODO get meetings back on our calendars and prompt folks to engage with issues.
  • Containerizing the QaServer - Initial work done, still exploring migration from CloudFormation to Terraform
    • 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
    • 2022-11-17 No recent progress

Other Topics

  • POD & SHARE-VDE... should this team interact with that re: use cases, data analysis or other?
    • 2022-11-17: started working on use cases for the assessment since POD does not seem to have any actionable use cases – just interest areas.
  • Sinolio - Sinopia-FOLIO
    • Possibly next work cycle toward end 2022; with LC now in FOLIO-land; how will MARVA be integrated?
    • 2022-10-27 - No news on possible work cycle
  • Entity Management in FOLIO
    • 2022-11-17: Two concurrent tasks underway: use case deep dive + environmental scan
  • CUL Authorities in FOLIO
    • 2022-11-17 Still planning how to add URIs to MARC, strategizing automated changes to bibs (e.g. closing dates) that are automatable, will accelerate getting through the backlog and inform adding URIs process. 
  • BIBFRAME Interoperability Group (BIG) - Steven Cornell rep and Jason alternate
    • 2022-10-27: They are joining for summit. Little to report at present otherwise.

Upcoming meetings/presentations

  • 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
    • Steven and Huda and Astrid to present. Steven and Huda have started a slide deck.

Next Meeting(s), anyone out?:

2022-11-24 - No meeting 

2022-12-01 - Greg out at AWS:ReInvent

2022-12-08 - Likely Greg our

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