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Attendees: Greg, Huda, Tim, Steven, Lynette, Jason

Regrets: Simeon

Discovery (WP3)

Linked-Data Authority Support (WP2)

  • Qa Sinopia Collaboration – Support and evolve QA+cache instance for use with Sinopia
    • 2021-09-17 - no agenda or meeting this week
  • Best Practices for Authoritative Data working group (focus on Change Management)
    • 2021-09-17 - The working group making recommendations for how to express and consume change management documents continues to work on document: Activity Streams - Extensions for Authoritative Data Change Management Changes since last time:
      • add new Object Types (still under discussion) - These will identify what time of object (e.g. Person, Place, Subject, etc.) are being added/updated. Need to get some examples together – at this point, creating things that will be different for different ontologies and different authorities. Concern around representing diff. between authority object & RWO
      • add appendices for the 3 major use cases - I am working on getting collaborators for this. I wrote up the use case for a full cache as that is the LD4P use case. The other use cases would be able to work if authorities support the full cache, but not vice versa. The other two use cases are partial cache and notification system. It takes more effort for the providers to support the full cache use case, but I am hoping if the use case is clear and the benefits are clear, more of them will make this a priority.
  • Cache Containerization Plan - Develop a sustainable solution that others can deploy
    • 2021-09-17 - Docker released a new licensing scheme which requires paid subscription. There is a free license, but it is very limited and it is unclear if we will qualify and if Samvera community (also affected) will even qualify. Their definition of Open Source is very limited. If you have any contributors from institutions that would not qualify for the free license, then the Open Source project does not qualify. This would likely impact LD4P and Samvera. The only bright side is that in discussions with folks, it appears that the CLI would not be impacted by this. But today someone said that Compose would be. I have a question in for whether this means the docker-compose CLI or if there is another product named Compose.  I sent this information to Simeon in the context of LD4P to get his take on the implications of this.  Docker's FAQ
    • 2021-09-17: All authorities loaded. Greg will be setting up load testing, backup, disaster recovery. Also some work to figure out in GitHub Actions; will work on this in the coming week

Other Topics

  • Sinolio - Sinopia-FOLIO
    • 2021-09-17: Spring Retro and Stand-up happening this afternoon; more updates next week
  • OCLC Linked Data / Entities Advisory Group
    • 2021-08-06 Huda has tried out UI and got API access. UI takeaway is that they aren't relying on the wikibase UI but still have same data at the moment. The search includes facet by type (e.g. work, person) and now have number of  results and pagination. Individual person page shows both data and provenance (which adds clutter to page) but doesn't have links to work. Lynette notes that search results are not RDF, will require custom module in order to incorporate in QA, also a lack of context
    • 2021-08-06 Question of what the OCLC business model of for-fee API access might mean. Would lookup via QA be allowed without a fee?
    • 2021-09-17: meeting this week had update on how changing the way they're doing testing & data quality. Testing will be more iterative to test specific features as they develop the app. September 27th will begin testing cycle with specific tasks for testers. Data Quality side : implemented scoring system (criteria = amount of links, that links align with ontology definition, trust and tracking of how assertions were made, one more criteria as well). Scores display prominently to cataloger. Q: is this just for one entity type or for all? A: for the entity types in the grant (works & people). There is a threshold for minimum data requirement
  • PCC 
    • 2021-06-25 Task Group on Non-RDA Entities headed by standing committee on standards will formally propose a list of non-RDA entity types. Steven will join and work picking up again
    • 2021-06-25 Planning group for data exchange met with meeting planned for 9/10 September: day 1 - foundational agreements including vendors (actors/profiles); day 2 - identify partnerships and tests (extending what is already happening as part of grant); also profiles group will pick up in July
    • 2021-09-03 Working on non-RDA types- we have tentative definitions for person, corporate body, family, conference, spirit, figure from folklore/legend/mythology, named animal or plant, fictitious entity, and event. We have maybe one or two more entity types to work out, then share for vetting before approaching LC for hosting.
    • 2021-09-03 BIBFRAME Data Exchange meeting - firming up schedule, including a set of lightning talks on Friday from vendors to share where they see themselves in the dataflow ecosystem... publisher, consumer, aggregator/lookup service, conversion, etc. plans for caching/linking to from.
      • 2021-09-17: BF Exchange meeting happened last week. Everyone who will be exchanging data in near future was at meeting. Slowly gaining clarity around challenges. Jeremy gave good talk about how we just need to be able to accept a diversity of data. PCC is trying to have application profiles that can be shared broadly.
    • 2021-09-17: Completed definitions for all entity types, writing examples by Monday, Steven'll start filling out K Ford's spreadsheet for generating RDF for the vocabulary so they can see it as something more than a Google Doc with lists
  • Authorities in FOLIO
    • Hope to include URIs as part of Cornell FOLIO migration, possible LD4P work
    • 2021-09-03 - folks are on vacation, but work will pick up soon to work on
      • Processing and caching Authority files
        • Determine where it will be located so that it can be modified
      • Getting ID’s in BIBs 
      • Generating Reports (spreadsheets) on changes to authorities 
      • [Possibly?] Processes for batch updating headings (table this until we meet in September)
    • 2021-09-17: Met last week. Frances has database she is using for discovery. She is going to start looking at strategy for parsing weekly Peter Ward files and updating her database. will then test whether that database can serve as source. Meeting every-other-week.

Upcoming meetings

  • https://kula.uvic.ca/index.php/kula/announcement/view/1 .  Call for Proposals - Special Issue: "The Metadata Issue: Metadata as Knowledge".  Due January 31, 2021 (abstract 300-500 words).  Includes "The use of linked open data to facilitate the interaction between metadata and bodies of knowledge" and "Cultural heritage organization (libraries, archives, galleries, and museums) and academic projects that contribute to or leverage open knowledge platforms such as Wikidata"
  • BIBFRAME in Europe workshop - September 21-23 15:00–18:00 CEST = 9am-12noon EST
  • SWIB (11/29-12/3) virtual again this year - No proposals submitted
  • Virtual Blacklight Summit in 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 will fill out the form saying Cornell wants to do institutional update; we have time before needing to decide whether we are doing an LD4P discovery related session

Next Meeting(s), anyone out?:

  • 2021-09-24: all here