2021-12-10 Cornell LD4P3 Meeting notes

Date: 10 Dec 2021

Attendees: Lynette, Huda, Tim, Greg, Simeon

Regrets:

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
- 2021-12-03
  - Lenora: User reps are fine as-is (no concerns) but had not yet heard back from a few more people in her unit. By end of the week (today) would hear if any concerns exist. On Monday, Tim will email and point out that it would be easier to do while Tim is still here; won't be here for next D&A Spring in mid-January
  - Tracey had feedback on a particular Paramount Records box set that looks bizarre in catalog (pulling in too much information and might be some incorrect information being pulled in - ToC is long but additional field is a very long, unformatted list of everything in the collection); she emailed a Tim and Huda, referencing that the cataloger already put in a link to Discogs. https://perma.cc/4URM-2MCP (Perma used since this page'll be updated shortly)
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.
- 2021-11-12:
  - Huda revisiting item view integration, included "online" field info and indicate (for debugging) whether related works coming in from PCC ISBN or LCCN relationships, etc. Began work on LOC Hubs in this page, some debugging, and thinking about how to bring this information back so it connects to catalog results. Also need to revisit work to work relationships (have a data file and will bring this in for viewing later).
  - Steven researching IMDB and Dune : )
    - Though we don't have the movie in our collection yet, Dune (2021) it's a pretty good example for BANG because it's based on a book, but unfortunately for us IMDB's mission isn't to plug books in their RDF (no schema:isBasedOn assertions). I think we might still want to consider whether to incorporate schema:image, schema:trailer (embed or link out), schema:description (though in some cases we might have summary notes for movies in our bibs already).
    - Ratings and reviews are interesting to consider... I doubt some librarians would be open to opinions being added to our descriptions, but I remember reading a little while back that the Vet Library was actively collecting for pleasure movies, etc. for students to help with supporting belonging, stress, campus life. As someone trying to view a movie from that perspective ratings, reviews, and trailers are helpful.
    - It's not in the schema block, but we might be able to recreate the more like this part of the IMDB page. Which is a little more work-to-work BANG-like.
    - There is really great data in Wikidata and IMDB, but not finding a shared identifier for each example in our catalog. If we think this is worth pursuing (we should confirm if browsing/pleasure viewing is a use case), we might have to rely on "fuzzy" matching, similar to the Discogs work when there is no id
- 2021-12-03:
  - Steven waiting on SHARE-VDE queries; will work with Huda on them. Huda had run queries to get work-to-work relationships; if Steven's query does not time out, great. Will need to iterate on the queries anyhow given the type assertions. Wondering whether this will yield same use cases available in MARC. Huda's query was limited to Works that had Instances
  - Huda worked on LoC Hub data integration; if you're on an item page, looks up instance from LoC, finds Work, finds Hub and then finds related Translations and then related works, their Instances and then ISBNS and LCCNS where available for those instances. Need to next hook up to SOLR look-up. Still some oddities of SOLR look-ups (e.g.: geography returns for Hamlet); will be on lookout for strange data matches
  - LoC Hub data should be downloadable next year... for the moment, relying on multiple AJAX requests
- 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 (i.e. related,
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 – Support and evolve QA+cache instance for use with Sinopia
- 2021-12-10
  - Worked with Dave to get the ShareVDE PCC data in the cache and configured for access through QA and the Sinopia editor. The data itself is not compatible with the desired shape for PCC templates. Nancy at Stanford plans to provide feedback on the data to ShareVDE.
  - The deploy also included reindexing of all authorities to allow for case-insensitive search.
  - There is still a problem with the number of results returned. When you request 4, you might get 4 or 5. This happens when there is a direct match, but seems to happen at other times as well. I haven't been able to identify the pattern of when this happens.
  - Pagination header needs to be adjusted so that total results = total possible results allowing for a calculation of the number of pages. It is currently the number of results returned.
Best Practices for Authoritative Data working group (focus on Change Management)
- 2021-12-10
  - On hiatus until 3rd week in January. I will be working on the documentation rewrite while the group is off. Overview of the architecture and flow are being organized in Entity Metadata Management Architecture
Cache Containerization Plan - Develop a sustainable solution that others can deploy
- 2021-12-10
  - Justin testing at Stanford. Hitting problems with the templates that we didn't hit. Greg working with Justin to work through the errors on the first of the two templates. So far, changes are required in the instructions as opposed to changing the templates.

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