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Date: 13 Dec 2019

Attendees: Tim, Huda, Lynette, Jason, John

Regrets: Simeon, Steven

Agenda & Notes

Review actions from 2019-11-22 Cornell LD4P2 Meeting notes

• Huda Khan to discuss with Astrid and David possible collaboration with U Chicago over usability (and maybe others in DOG team)
  • Meeting with Astrid, Lynette, Steven and David and Emma set for 11/21 (Tim is out that week) to discuss potential usability work for discovery and Sinopia
  • 2019-11-22 - Had meeting yesterday. David and Emma will devote time to two tests – thinking about aspects around lookups and context. Results will be useful even if no more dev in this grant. Question whether there is training required beforehand. Will revisit question in January. UChicago have just completed a significant study re. discovery with grad students, will be discussion of possible follow-up
  • Notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_V7JfAKqSn63-G0zupLZigt8o7R3v_WXC7hWlt8w744/edit
  • Will revisit question in January; Chicago supposed to have report by now... regardless, understanding collaboration in January when better understand resources and what to test (can remove from action items... until January)
• WebEx for demo for linked data work done by EBSCO at 10 AM
  
  • https://ebscomeetings.webex.com/join/afaithebsco.com

Issues/Blockers (for time since call at 10)

• Lynette: Connection time outs were happening due to increased requests (fixed); cache layer is returning a lot of 500s - Dave is working on this. No blocker - work itself is happening. Adding IP address to logging to identify whether same source is hitting us with same request.
• John: getting documentation from the Internet Archive. Needs to know whether there is an API to full text search the books. Recommend look into HathiTrust (Michelle Paolillo is CUL rep for Hathi and can point you to documentation). 
• Tim: no blockers or issues
• Huda: looking at semantic search to define data requirements. no blockers

Status updates and planning

• Review of SMASH! brainstorming results from 
  • Meeting last Friday: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ahhkmgSGFkE8TCz781jIjB2mbvmFq85Wc8wnYKSC9RQ/edit
  • Beginning to put together potential SMASH! examples: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1u2NYavIpzjbqrmSvDpuFnmCXSIjVW9tTfaU5B4N4zrw/edit
  • Will try to decide on something to try by 6 Dec
  • Based on meetings
    • John looking at 0 results issue (what can system provide wrt suggestions based on linked data connection); currently considering full text as well as subjects from IA and Hathi
    • Tim looking at autocomplete with an idea of what UGhent has done; interested in UX of what they've done and whether this generates any ideas. Ghent focuses on agents... and we want to look at entities beyond that. Autocomplete at Ghent is AJAX based on their indexing of VIAF, etc.
    • Huda: considering what we mean when we talk about semantic search... and what are the possibilities.  Huda Khanwill add slide link. Huda: "Lincoln was a pro wrestler before he was president"
• 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. 
• Enhanced Discovery (see also https://wiki.duraspace.org/x/sJI7Bg and https://github.com/LD4P/discovery/projects/1)
  • BAM! (to run through end October)
    • For reference: Initial draft of BAM plan
    • BAM Screenshots (Tim's call number screenshots added.)
    • Tying up video next week, John has submitted his section (DONE)
    • Beginning draft for lessons learned
  • 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)
• 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, Lynette and Simeon will attend
    • Lynette will put QA in for the "tool challenge"
  • Knowledge Graph Conference (Columbia University), May 6-7, workshops 5/4-5/5
    • Proposals due 1/15
    • Huda will 
  • 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: