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  • Review of DC cohort and partner meetings
    • Discovery is important, everyone agrees, want compelling stories
    • Cohort mentioned need for infrastructure to continue communicating/working. How can affinity groups help?
    • What can we do now to position us well for ongoing work? Usability studies are helpful
    • Cohort showcases very informative, can see what is actually being accomplished
    • NLM strongly interested in MeSH
    • Discussion about ways to improve lookup performance. Expanding index looks difficult, Dave will continue work on SPARQL approach
  • Review of SMASH! brainstorming results from 
  • Prep for Cataloging Sinatra and other 45's (Discogs data, https://github.com/ld4p/qa_server/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3ADiscogs)
    • STARTING with items not in DIscogs but AWAITING more work in Sinopia to import data. Sinopia work cycle 2 (through December 6) will we hope include the ability to read in RDF back from Trellis. We hope that we can leverage this to import RDF from a lookup in Discogs or ShareVDE. 
    • Formatting if Discogs results was redone to match the others
  • Enhanced Discovery (see also https://wiki.duraspace.org/x/sJI7Bg and https://github.com/LD4P/discovery/projects/1)
    • BAM! (to run through end October)
    • SMASH! (to run through end of January)
    • How will we decide what to take forward from KAPOW!, BAM! and SMASH!?
  • Authority Lookups for Sinopia (Lookup infrastructure: https://github.com/LD4P/qa_server/projects/2, Authority requests: https://github.com/LD4P/qa_server/projects/1)
    • Change to discogs merged through and in production
    • Sinopia updated yesterday, not discogs shows extended context though not the image – can demo creation of Work but note lots of triples can't load at the moment
    • Pagination header in results needs Samvera community review... having trouble getting that done but will release as soon as merged
    • Dave working on indexing to improve performance
    • Lynette working on other things for next two weeks
  • Travel and meetings (see LD4P2 Cornell Meeting Attendances)
    • 5th International LODLAM SUMMIT at the The Getty Center in Los Angeles. February 3-4, 2020
      • Steven is on the planning committee, Lynette and Simeon appliedwill attend
      • Lynette will put QA in for the Expect to have a "tool challenge" - a competition before the conference
    • LD4 Conference at College Station, TX (TAMU) - May 13/14, 2020
      • Jason is on PC
    • rdfs:seeAlso Conferences Related to Linked Data in Libraries
  • Next meetings:
    • Simeon out Dec 6 and Dec 13
    • Huda not in office Dec 6 (I may be able to attend virtually but unsure)
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