Charter:
This group will explore best practices for authorities that want to share their metadata through a linked data search API. This work is specifically looking to provide recommendations that allow for the creation of a common toolset that works across authorities supported by different agencies. 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 supporting the development of a shared toolset. Additional documentation may be created 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 will include:
Primary: Documentation of best practices for authority providers creation of linked data search APIs
Review by community of designs and solicitation of feedback
The group will begin meeting in late 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.
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 is to hold one hour calls every other week at a time to be determined.
Meetings, meeting minutes, deliverables, and milestones will be announced at: TBD
We will set up a dedicated 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 linked from this page
Slack channel: TBD
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.
Facilitator : E. Lynette Rayle (Cornell - Developer)