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Date: 14 Jan 2022

Attendees:  Jason, Huda, Steven, Lynette, Simeon

Regrets:  no Tim in our meetings anymore

Discovery (WP3)

• https://github.com/LD4P/discovery/projects/2 for issues etc. 
• Draft of a discovery plan: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zKYW7FQVVNvyd0XjjW0qWznX9PC3jbmOE6Kz_yygPjs/edit?usp=sharing
• Research: how to go from knowledge graph to an index
  • Research decision points, Use cases 
• DASH! (Displaying Authorities Seamlessly Here)
  • Dashboard design meeting kickoff notes
  • https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PgQi3xobsPhr9DUHU_YGeimL1OjNiiTdkiNWb36r3Gg/edit
  • Usability testing and followup for DASH: Usability results
    
    • Usability results, a few little things to finish up
    • GitHub issues
  • 2021-12-17
    • New features are LIVE on our D&A
    • Video in progress
  • 2022-01-12
    • Work and video done. Huda is finishing up some documentation including how index is set up and where connections made
• 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.
  • 2021-12-10
    • ISBNs and LCCNs returned from LOC Hubs navigation (focusing for translation hubs at the moment) now tied to Solr lookups and returning results in page
    • Worked on seeing if I could set up a proxy controller to get IMDB page and retrieve the JSON-LD with the Schema.org markup (and it seems to work!)
    Also reviewed some articles around discovery/visual representations based on FRBR/BIBFRAME, etc.: (Google doc). Objective: Identify possible use cases for discovery using work-instance relationships as well as look at examples of interface design for representing this information
    • Perhaps easier to demonstrate usefulness of BIBFRAME/semantic model for more complex use cases (although article focused on visualizations and found visualizations were effective regardless of complexity when compared with a faceted results view)
    To dos: Still need to use the work to work relationships data (which is based on a partial query run) (i.e. related, etc.) and bring that to the page.  Will try to get that done by end of year. 
    • Using Wikidata relationships between item and IMDB to get appropriate IMDB link 
    • Design work/review options for displaying information to users (works/instances and how/whether to modify the current catalog view focus on item)
  • 20212022-12-17 - have focused on DASH!01-14
    • Have focused on DASH recently
    • Curious about OpenAlex KB https://openalex.org/ and https://blog.ourresearch.org/openalex-launch/. "We’ve now built around a simple new five-entity model: works, authors, venues (journals and repositories), institutions, and concepts."
      
    • Possibly create report describing all of the data sources examine, affordances, limitations, overlap, etc. Steven notes significance of describing relationships and where useful data is found in model.
    • Design issues for works data - e.g. how to show to users different types of instance without one type dominating, how to build indexes, cataloging practices
• DAG Calls
  
  • 2022-01-14 - Next call next Tuesday, will focus on topic roadmap and then talk about data (where does it come from and how does it show in discovery, and what other sources could be used?)
  DAG Calls
  
  • 2021-12-03 - next Tuesday, last call of 2021! Recap slides to be made, and hope for some discussion on people's thoughts regarding topics and ideas for next year

Linked-Data Authority Support (WP2)

• Qa Sinopia Collaboration
  • 2022-01-0714
    • Pagination merged, but not released.  Want to update linked data module to use new pagination before releasing.  Need to deal with backward compatibility for linked data module use of non-jsonapi parameters and output formatting for pagination.
    • Looked into intermittent failure to respond to some queries.  QA is logging `RDF::Graph#load EOFError` which implies it didn't get all the data from the cache.  Verifying the failing queries today, they all pass.  Dave doesn't report anything unusual in his logs.
    • Topic for next week's meeting: openness to add more vocabs and on-going prioritization of this work
    • PR is in for pagination that is general for QA and meets the specific Sinopia use case re. YAML authorities
    • Need to discuss priorities with Dave
• Best Practices for Authoritative Data working group (focus on Change Management) 
  • 2022-01-0714
    • Next meeting 4th week in January. 
    • Overview Working on the documentation rewrite while the group is off.  Overview of the architecture and flow are being organized in Entity Metadata Management Architecture
    • Made significant progress on the external recommendations document.
• Containerization
  • 2022-01-0714
    
    • Don't know status of Stanford testing before break.
    • Future work:Maybe look at move from CloudFormation to Terraform
      
      • Containerize Dave - perhaps Greg & Dave could start while Lynette works on best practices group
      • Move our own QA instance to use CloudFormation. Lynette needs to look at customization parts and get them into container version first
      • Maybe look at move from CloudFormation to Terraform

Other Topics

• Github branch renaming
  • See Renaming of LD4P Repositories – cul/blacklight-cornell now uses main but still has the old master branch too
  • Expect to be able switch this in LD4P as part of D&A work
• 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
• ISNI - made a soft launch of LOD this week. Shhh... they are providing data dumps now, dereferenceable LOD sometime in 2022. https://isni.org/page/linked-data/
• PCC 
  
  • 2021-10-27 Definitions and non-RDA examples in MARC examples continued to shift, but should be able to finalize the spreadsheet that generates the RDF today.
  • 20212022-1201-10 14 Nothing new to report.
• Authorities in FOLIO
  
  • 20212022-11-19 Julia walked group through what deletes would take in the current plan, it would be challenging to do this using a combination of Blacklight, Connexion, and FOLIO. Jenn and Nick suggested thinking about FOLIO authorities app (to keep us in FOLIO for search, copying, and editing in BIBs), timeline for EBSCO work on authorities app is ingest/search in Lotus (April)
  • 2021-12-10
    • Frances working to parse data and then Nick will use data via API to generate report. Expect the need to iterate.
    • Jenn did some analysis on copy of old Voyager data to look which controlled identifiers might be pull into BIBs
  • 01-14 Working on "deletes" workflow (actually deprecation with replacement process for references). Current workflow uses browse in Blacklight and benefits from links into FOLIO 
• Upcoming presentations: Discussion on knowledge panels and Cornell Wikidata integration1/24 ARLIS/NA x Wikidata, and catalog form and function IG presentation March 11, 3-4pm (hope to also get Steven )

Upcoming meetings

• https://kula.uvic.ca/index.php/kula/announcement/view/1 .  Submission for special Issue: "The Metadata Issue: Metadata as Knowledge".  
  
  • Revised version submitted

Next Meeting(s), anyone out?:

• 2022-01-14 -..