Attendees: Jason, Simeon, Huda, Steven

Regrets: Greg

DC Meeting Followup

  • Review Steven's draft assessment of QA cache and direct use - work in progress, reaching out to Sinopia team to understand status of some authorities in Sinopia PCC templates

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)
    • 2022-12-01
      • Draft for lessons learned - needs input from Steven
      • Documentation for scripts for data analysis forthcoming
  • BAM! WOW! (Browsing Across Music With Obtainable Wikidata)
    • 2022-12-01
      • Discussed with Melissa and Frances
        • Can reuse discogs pattern for items that have one author/title facet value work
        • Thinking about + or info button next to included works for items that have them, don't try to bring info in at the item level (a minority of collection, not super rare though - common for collections of music or literary works)
      • Will ask Tracey to send out recruitment email on Monday for graduate student testers (looking for up to 5 people), hope to do tests late in week of Dec 12
  • DAG Calls
    • 2022-12-01 - Not sure if will have one next week, might review SWIB lessons

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
    • Excellent talk from Huda/Steven/Astrid!!!
    • Interesting talk on shapes and forms from Patrick Hochstenbach
    • Ruth Tillman's talk about time and presence in data that might become stale

Next Meeting(s), anyone out?:

2022-12-07 - Likely Greg out

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