Steven Folsom keep track of cataloger perspective on work to support LC Names is in QA with context
2019-01-11 - Dave had added LCNAF to D.A.V.E. and Steven is working on the context needed for the search lookup UI.
2019-01-18 - Some discussion of language tags and two actions below
2019-02-01 - Action yesterday. Working with Dave on whether that spreadsheet has all the right information (particularly about need for prefLabel or not, language tags or not).. may be resolved today?!
2019-01-25: significant progress. refactored code showing context; fails on certain LD paths and doesn't expand out URIs (e.g.: if do broader, will only give URI, not URI + label) - has not yet attempted to correct. Other Significant item: LDPath gem is doing load for graph every time it tries to access something (SLOW)... may need to fork LDPath gem to make more efficient since will not need to reload graph every time (for our use case). Next week Lynette is gone; week after is Exhibits work... so likely update for next two weeks.
E. Lynette Rayle (from discussion of LC Names in QA with context) 1) investigate & document algorithm for selection of languages with label and/or no label
ACTION Huda Khan & Steven Folsom to go through spreadsheet assessing difficulty and "linked data wow" factor (BfB)
ACTION Steven Folsom to organize meeting with D&A folks to pick top issue we might address based on the difficulty, wow and D&A input
Questions about relation to DCP work, but concerned about different area
Huda Khan is working on whether usability work on catalogs has been done internally as well as externally to CUL. Code4Lib journal and another has some details
2019-01-18: Have been looking at usability work and literature. Found some older material on Blacklight tests (when facets new), not so much after that. Some log analysis on SearchWorks. Also looking at linked data browser tools. Interesting dissertation from a few years ago on LD exploratory search. See discovery folder, literature exploration NOTES DOCUMENT, initial discussions with Tim regarding knowledge panels etc. , and also Stanford NOTES FROM LAST SUMMER
2019-02-01: Huda is going to work through the notes from Astrid's four user sessions
Huda Khan will set up another meeting with Jason, Tim, and Astrid to plan way forward with the Discovery work plan.
2019-01-25: Huda will schedule a meeting in the not so distant future... will include Steven, as well.
2019-02-01 Work continues on this, will be work for Lynette/QA when this specification effort is complete
E. Lynette Rayle to work with Dave on QA/DAVE presentation at LD4 Conference
2019-01-18 Going to do this with Dave, working on it this pm
2019-02-01 Just 7 days left...
Huda Khan to discuss with Astrid possibility of UX presentation
2019-01-18 Have discussed with Astrid. Abstract "yes" so far
2019-02-01 Just 7 days left...
Jason Kovariwill discuss in LTS whether there a URIs from Share-VDE data that are useful and might be added to catalog
2019-02-01: until we have some Cornell data back from Casalini, Jason does not want to have discussion in LTS – people will need to see / explore data before forming opinions on utility. At present, no timeline from Casalini about delivery of dataset, will follow up with Casilini now
Jason Kovariwill touch base with Michelle to inquire about how this cohort engagement communication transpires ... and likely correct his confusion over communication issues (how people/institutions engage beyond the Sinopia user group)
2019-02-01 cohort update in planning
Simeon Warner re: Enhanced Discovery work, will talk with Jessie about Stanford plans and then talk to budget & finance
2019-02-01 Jessie in planning work likely to start after LDCX, likely to include knowledge cards.
Still need to (hopefully for next week Steven Folsom ):
update propertyTemplates that involve lookups to abide by the syntax generated by the Sinopia Profile Editor for QA (QA look ups are available as drop-downs in the profile editor now)
communicate this work has happened in case others might want to used templates I've created (e.g. RWO profiles instead of Authorities, GeoNames instead of LCNAF)
negotiate how far to move away from some LC BFLC patterns and using entities instead of literals (especially in the case where BF, RDA, etc. have properties)
Create song template, just haven't gotten to this.
Enhanced Discovery
See notes regarding usability work above. Astrid is conducting user interviews with researchers to understand discovery needs and has completed three of these so far.
Preliminary impressions: 2 areas: (a) Shorter-term Blacklight contributions: knowledge panel design and integration while bringing in linked data, schema output, and design and implementation of connecting to/integrating authorities (but linked data versions?), (b) design and exploration around how linked data could be integrated into discovery such as semantic search (which may involve interesting alignments between info modeled in ontologies and traditional library search and may even intersect with machine learning/NLP options), possibly resulting in prototypes that address particular user concerns (e.g. identifying related items, demonstrating more clearly what information is actually present and related within the search space, etc.). Based on literature/existing work, appears there are definite improvements to the search experience that are possible and preferred. Also very related to user experience: relevance and search algorithms.