Charter:

Scope & Objectives

This group will explore best practices for authorities that want to share their metadata as linked data.  This work is specifically looking to provide a solution that allows for the creation of a common toolset that works across authorities.  The major outcome of this working group will be descriptions of the best practices in an easy to follow document empowering authority providers to create APIs and other deliverables that are compatible with support of a shared toolset.  And documentation providing authority consumers with a consistent pattern for writing tools and consuming authority metadata.

This group should be comprised of a balance of members from multiple authority providers, authority consumers, and tool developers.  Members need to be able to commit to the following deliverables and timeframe.

Deliverables & Timeframe

Deliverables will include:

• Documentation of best practices for authority provider APIs for linked data searching and URI dereferencing

• Review by community of designs and solicitation of feedback

The group will begin meeting in last spring 2020 (approximately early May).  The group will meet for 1 hour every other week and its sunset date will be approximately 4 months after the start date.  If more time is required, a new working group charter will be created.

Meeting Times & Communication Channels

• The call for participation was sent by invitation to authority providers, authority data consumers, and applications that make authority data available to users

• A regular schedule for meetings will be set using Doodle once the membership is established. The plan will be to hold one hour calls every other week at a time to be determined.

• Meetings, meeting minutes, deliverables, and milestones will be announced on the lists: TBD

• We will set up a dedicated (not private, but topic-specific) Slack channel for asynchronous communication. (TBD)

• Meetings will take place on Zoom: connection info TBD

• Meeting notes recording action items and provisional decisions will be in the LD4P3 wiki (TBD)

Slack channel:  TBD

Meeting Notes

Documents

Working Group Documents

• TBD

Supporting Documents

• TBD

Membership and Interest

Roles are defined as:

• Provider - member of an authority provider organization
• Consumer - member of an organization consuming authority data
• Developer - technical staff interested in creating tools to work with linked data authorities

Expression of interest:

Send an email to elr37@cornell.edu to express interest in joining the working group or interest in the outcomes of this group.  This is not a commitment to participate.

Members

Membership will be capped at (10) in order to keep scheduling and organization manageable.

Facilitator : E. Lynette Rayle (Cornell)  

1. Library of Congress - Nate Trail, Kevin Ford (Provider)
2. OCLC - representative TBD (Provider)
3. MeSH - representative TBD (Provider)
4. Cornell - Steven Folsom (Consumer)
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Resources

• Making Authorities Accessible as Linked Data - A perspective based on experiences working with Questioning Authority and the QaServer Lookup application which accesses authorities linked data search APIs.