Date:
Attendees: Huda, Lynette, John, Tim, Steven, Simeon
Regrets: See plus-delta
Notes
Make your own cake challenge (optional); SF with be nailing a cake of Mann Library
- Steven totally nailed a cake of Mann library
Reflections (optional)
- Very grateful for John's contributions
- Things to do in Ithaca with free-time during lockdown:
- Hiking
- Rent a canoe/kayak/etc. http://www.puddledockers.com/
Plus
- Discovery work and demonstrating what we can actually do
- Followed principled decision about driving to DC (rather than flying, saving the world) and it was even a good teambuilding experience (and Huda made slides)
- Influenced to binge watch "The Good Place"
- Fun video intros and video editings
- QA work, large diversity of authorities now supported ("much lookupification")
- John joining the team, Steven's mentorship
- Involving usability working group
- Affinity groups – expanding beyond the project partners, kudos to those organizing
- Coordination with the Stanford team, and appropriate separation of responsibilities between then teams
- Adapting beyond use of students in lobby for testing
- Balance in discovery work between doing a broad pass to touch on all the areas imagined and then to focus on a few key things
- Ability to experiment and try out new things (e.g. use of HathiTrust API)
- Steven to prioritize work and to create accuracy tests for QA, working out how extended context should work
- Huda doing so much work and so much coordination and so much – and seconded!
- Discussions with everyone at the table
- Demonstrated ecosystem for creating entities as opposed to records
- Proving that we can work with linked data to share bibliographic data
- Collaboration across the grant
- LD4P3
Delta
- Performance challenges with cache system
- COVID-19
- Development bottlenecks and availability of effort in relation to user needs
- Losing John at the end of the grant (bon voyage)
- Ithaca has terrible tacos and general lack of Mexican food
- Work to do to reach usability expectations of catalogers
- Training approach starting with RDA wasn't quite right, many catalogers think of RDA from the basis of MARC so better to start from that understanding
- Lack of community process to evolve BIBFRAME
Still to do for our vision...
- It is a long road to library transition, need to keep working and reworking understanding of use cases
Game? Charades/others/
...