Date:
Attendees: Greg, Jason, Tim, Huda, Lynette, Simeon
Regrets: Steven
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
- 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
- 2021-1011-29
- Huda and Tim working on adding the parts that user reps wanted to move forward with, also adding YAML file to control exceptions where data should not be added
- YAML (current example): https://github.com/LD4P/blacklight-cornell/blob/dashProd/public/excludeEntities.yml
- Tim working on author and subject page layout/display
- Expect to demo to user reps next Thursday
- Issue to record work: https://github.com/LD4P/discovery/issues/158
- Didn't demo to user reps as that meeting got moved up to Wednesday
- Doing demo for D&A team today
- Have found some inconsistency in the structure of the data returned by id.loc.gov resulting in things showing or not if reloaded. It turns out that the data itself seems consistent so have been able to work around this. Will email Kevin to ask what might be going on
- Tim has been working on code cleanup and making the layout consistent; and also using exclusion information from YAML config
- Jason notes that as this moves toward production we'll have to think about who owns the exclusions file and how that will be maintained
- Huda and Tim working on adding the parts that user reps wanted to move forward with, also adding YAML file to control exceptions where data should not be added
- 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.
- DAG Calls
- 2021-1011-29 - Amy presented, talking about image use in general as well as with IIIF. Discussion of linked data and availability fo context. 11-12 people attended, with a regular core05 - Contacted Mark Matienzo and they commented that the "Lighting the Way Handbook" was just about to be published https://library.stanford.edu/blogs/stanford-libraries-blog/2021/11/announcing-lighting-way-handbook
Linked-Data Authority Support (WP2)
- Qa Sinopia Collaboration – Support and evolve QA+cache instance for use with Sinopia
- 2021-11-05
- No meeting this week
- Assessment of the FAST Direct/Cache Alignment issue (https://github.com/LD4P/sinopia_editor/issues/2125): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1baAgyP3CtmJ31fTGYzRcykUE1RSS126L8U8f0UI7zIo/edit?usp=sharing
- SF- Walked through this with Dave and Lynette and takeaways are:We can sever some Sinopia direct configs because they are either redundant to others or not applicable to cataloging workflows.
- We'll eventually need a new cache with Meetings once there is a critical mass of them in the data. We still need QA/Sinopia config to separate schema:
- Intangibles into two subauths (topic and form).
- https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rPvEoP9iYNkxJ0eWC8gXe3ci7e6mhW0da59xkGhadi0/edit#gid=502967565
- Green means this row is ok to act on (probably the same or similar to how it was set up before).
- Yellow means notable change (likely requiring change to the queries, but ok to act on).
- Red means there's a problem either on how we ingested the data, or the SVDE data itself. We saw similar issues with the last batch of data.
- https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rPvEoP9iYNkxJ0eWC8gXe3ci7e6mhW0da59xkGhadi0/edit#gid=502967565
- 2021-11-05
- Requests from Sinopia team - all released to production
- 2021-11-1005 - 29
- Need a LD4 repo to hold context document. Name: ld4/entity_metadata_management -- Entity Metadata Management
- Looking at using github.io for the final documentation.
- Considering rewriting the document in a format similar to the IIIF document. It seems easier to read.
- Next week plan to work on context and updating recommendation document
- 2021-10-2911-05
- Stanford plans to test installation instructions when ready.
- Explored some of the additional customizations. Feeling like it is getting too flexible such that it negates the benefits of containerization. As this is an admin UI and not user facing, looking at limiting customizations to critical pieces. (e.g. not css, yes i18n)
- Worked on improving documentation.
- Greg...
- The plan for moving the containerization process forward state so far is...
- DONE - Lynette will clean up the images in ECR
- DONE - Lynette will get the github-actions deploying images.
- DONE for the private repos.
- DONE - Still working on the public repo. I believe I have a solution but need to test it.
- IN PROCESS - Lynette will update the env file to allow for initializers to draw their values from that file.
- IN PROCESS - Greg can walk Lynette through setting up -int. This should identify…
- what can be done by a moderate privileged user and what has to be done by a sys opts user
- make changes/additions to documentation as needed
- Greg identified a way to make the
copy authorities to EFS mount
a process of copying toS3
and then it will automatically copy toEFS
- Other potential customizations described in Issue #44
- Lynette will move the templates to a new github repo
- Lynette will setup -stg except where sys opts privileges are required to proceed.
- Greg working on setting up different parts in public and private repos
- Can containerized QA be available for testing before Stanford Sinopia work cycle finishes Dec 10? Think so. Lynette will reach out to Michelle to see what expectations are
Other Topics
- Github branch renaming
- See Renaming of LD4P Repositories – cul/blacklight-cornell now uses
main
- Expect to be able switch this in LD4P as part of D&A work
- See Renaming of LD4P Repositories – cul/blacklight-cornell now uses
- Sinolio - Sinopia-FOLIO
- 2021-10-22: Have not worked on the FOLIO tasks yet. Monday is the next sprint kick-off... and I am told that this sprint will have more FOLIO work.11-05 - Retrospective for 2 week sprint today, some discussion around expected UI. Expect to engage in new sprint which will stand up new FOLIO instance for this work
- OCLC Linked Data / Entities Advisory Group
- 2021-10-22: There was a meeting this week. Libraries were invited to share their reactions to the work. Most folks mentioned it shows promise, and they look forward to being able to interact with it as an editor. The editor work should be shareable in November. Unlike VIAF (with is strictly machine generated), the entity data will be both batch created AND able to be edited by catalogers. Local Authorities could be a good use case. There were some discussions about integration with other tools (Sinopia, etc.)11-05 Lynette involved in meeting with John Chapman to discuss integration. "meeting with OCLC to look at integrations of Sinopia/QA with their entity backbone via their new API platform" Meeting will include most of the Sinopia team. Not clear who will attend on the OCLC side.
- PCC
- 2021-10-22 Some work to encode non-RDA examples in MARC, will be sent to LC for review
- 2021-10-27 Definitions and examples continued to shift, but should be able to finalize the spreadsheet that generates the RDF today.
- 2021-11-04- Nothing new to report.
- Authorities in FOLIO
- 2021-10-15 Frances has database she is using for discovery. She has begun to successfully parse weekly Peter Ward files and updating her database. will then test whether that database can serve as source. Meeting every-other-week. Nick is investigating creating a GUI rather than spreadsheets; question about how much to invest, given that this would be a local solution and no other libraries are identified yet to do work this way.
- 2021-10-29 Met this week, Frances thinking about data model for activities/events in order to support GUI. Steven watching possible shift in goals from spreadsheets to app development and how that might affect timeline
- 2021-11-04 Laura, Julia, Jenn and Steven met this week to discuss getting URIs in our MARC records. We're going to try to abide by the same decisions reflected in OCLC's export options for URIs. Because every imaginable process for getting URIs relies on string matching we're meeting again next week to define scope and matching algorithms so that we're not adding a bunch of bad URIs.
- Authors, Authority, and Identity: Facilitating Self-Identification for Discovery and Inclusive Knowledge Production was an impressive Harvard Hosted event (2021-11-03) about the ethics of authorities and who has agency over metadata about people and their identities.
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- https://kula.uvic.ca/index.php/kula/announcement/view/1 . Call for Proposals - Special Issue: "The Metadata Issue: Metadata as Knowledge".
- Folder Link, CFP + Brainstorming
- Huda will schedule a meeting to discuss response to reviews
- SWIB (11/29-12/3) virtual again this year - No proposals submitted
- Virtual Blacklight Summit in 8-10 November. Last year had an institutional update from Cornell; can do this again. And/or can propose a session on the LD4P discovery work. Informal CFP has gone out.
- Huda Khan has filled out form to offer institutional demo and possibly demo work. Meeting with Melissa after this call as they did it last year. 5-6 minutes total
- Demo videos due by 11/3 - Huda and Melissa have worked on the video, including mention of the Discogs work from LD4P
- Huda Khan has filled out form to offer institutional demo and possibly demo work. Meeting with Melissa after this call as they did it last year. 5-6 minutes total
Next Meeting(s), anyone out?:
- 2021-11-05 Guy Fawkes day, nobody 12 Jason out