Simeon intro mention demo and mockups of alternatives
Turn over to Steven Jason to mention catalog override
Mentions community and notion of approval to edit
Source of data is trusted within the community
We have many under-described musical recording where we would see benefit
Jason notes that we will have an ability to override
Demo from Tim
Would this be useful to music students? Yes, although possible confusions around non-searchability e.g. students look for cases where multiple artists have recorded a different
General sense that cover art doesn't change much, data usually very good
New suggestion from Tim that we could have the blended view and then a button that
Agreement that we should move ahead with adding to the catalog
Agreement that discogs data useful, blended presentation preferred, album cover image appreciated
Agreement that it would be good to note that the discogs data is not searchable
Interest in exploring options to index extra data at some later stage
Next steps
Tim to create a D&A issue describing discussion
Tim to work on blended view with button
Hope to have new version ready for November sprint even if deploy waits for January
Simeon Warnerto find out who we might talk to about librarian instruction at CUL re. possible use cases. Question had come up in the context of the dashboard use case "Instructional librarians want to teach users how to navigate library materials using subject headings. Combined with Classification/LCSH taxonomy mapping"
2020-10-16 Jason Kovarito ask Tracey if she has the capacity to discuss this
Huda Khan and Tim Worrall work to continue to explore the dashboard design and requirements
2020-09-25 in progress, will discuss with Astrid & Tim next week
2020-10-02: Kickoff design meeting happened → Huda KhanTim Worrall& astrid will look at different aspects more and regroup in 2 weeks (Meeting set for 10/14)
2020-10-16 Next steps: understand data better, discuss with Steve, refine design ideas, think about facilities for user and then work toward a prototype
Greg Delisleto explore how to get the container version that Lynette has on her laptop up on AWS. Question about how to handle environment variables outside of the checked in docker container so that users can config
2020-09-25 Greg is working on that (right now)
2020-10-02 Greg can get it running on ECS but we can't see it directly of from behind load balancer, still working through the details
2020-10-09 On laptop Lynette had an entrypoint script which worked fine to allocate assets and connect to mysql etc., this doesn't work on AWS. Lynette is trying to move these processes into the Docker file. Works for bundling but not for precompile, has some input from Justin, Greg will look into the DB connection. Some concern that we are having to make many changes for AWS, will the new version work on laptop or other VM? (changes so far do work on laptop too)
2020-10-16 Greg has had limited time this week, Lynette still trying to resolve problems with MySQL startup, having problems precompiling assets
Toward a demo and discussion with D&A:
Huda Khan & Tim Worrall - Make sure the live demo meets the Discogs API terms of service in terms of linking and ack. – Had discussion with Melissa about how/where we show acks and licensing in general for our Blacklight. Could then link to this from all pages and perhaps a specific link to the details on this page. A bit more to do
2020-10-09 - Code changes DONE, Tim thinking about whether we should remove not about wikidata which isn't part of the current production plan. Example: ld4p3-web.library.cornell.edu/catalog/6055667
Huda Khan to discuss with Adam having a meeting with User Reps sometime after Oct 5
October 16th potential date/time: 3:30pm → need to send list of names to add to this meeting to Meredith - names added
Tim Worrall to look into how we might display some language pointing out what data is not used in search. For example, what if a user sees the record label in Discogs data and then tries searching on that (which they can't)? Per Tracey suggestion
Partly contingent upon the presentation approach selected. Think about it more after 2020-10-16 meeting
Strand 1: production piece (i.e.: picking features we've already worked on to then push those into production): discogs, autosuggest. Feature branches in the code to work on features in isolation. Still need to discuss discogs with Tracey (post- 9/2). Preliminary pass with discogs features using latest production (from a few days ago) successful (tried on dev vm and will try on ld4p3 demo using continuous integration later)
Steps:
Discussion with Tracey re. use case and benefit – DONE
Demo and discussion with D&A User Reps and dev team – See actions above from last week
Have branch with discogs code on dev VM and demo server from LD4P fork, but still issues with the assets folder under Rails not showing current version (these are generally copied in during the Rails deploy process)
Update 10/9/2020: Manually cleared out the assets folder on the two rails servers and ran Jenkins deploy more than once and saw only one copy of the files, so hopefully this is fine now. Will keep an eye on the assets folders.
How do we run the demo meeting next week? Simeon intro mention demo and mockups of alternatives, turn over to Steven to mention catalog override and then demo from Tim
Strand 2: research: how to go from knowledge graph to an index - what decisions are needed. What are the data sources for each (e.g.: how many Cornell faculty in wikidata)? Present: reviewing data sources and questions. Should have more worked out in a week or two. Main areas of concern: browsing and dashboard... and anything we can do to help patrons navigate our collections and how we can highlight an entity... and what does that mean for the index? How do we capture the relevant bits of the graph for an index? Is there a repo for this? Not yet... but can use discovery repo (https://github.com/ld4p/discovery) we already have to capture any queries or related work.
Linked-Data Authority Support (WP2) - A key element of this work package is a sustainable solution that others can deploy. Questions of budget for deployment. Need to get all code into LD4P repository. What would a good end-product look like both for our maintenance and for others to use
What does success look like? And then how do we get there?
2020-09-25 Jason drafted an introduction for LTS staff and no capacity right now in LTS, perhaps discuss again next week as to what next steps will be. Jason and Steven will discuss this week
2020-10-02 Jason will collect information to prime brainstorming from LTS, think about brainstorming then discussions
Other Topics
OCLC Linked Data / Entities Advisory Group
OCLC has described minimal viable entities and a number of small vocabs – are these new "standards" that we will have to engage with to ensure alignment?
PCC Sinopia Profiles Working group
2020-09-18 - Still going through large spreadsheet comparing Sinopia profiles with BSR and CSR, close to having a comparison, will be part of report to POCO, still on target to complete in October
2020-10-02 - Submitted interim report yesterday. Feedback requested before deciding on a few directions and working to stay compatible with LC work. Some discussion of how to align with SHARE-VDE data which uses a rather different profile. Committee is supposed to wrap by the end of October
2020-10-09 Almost done, questions about role of item template which doesn't fall within PCC scope
PCC Task Group on Non-RDA Entities
2020-09-11 - Preliminary report went to POCO suggesting a small vocabulary of entity types, discussion about how to host/implement
2020-09-25 Now have a short list if possibilities and close to decision
2020-10-02 Have definitions of short lists, now creating MARC examples. Interest is working the German national library on alignment – perhaps influence that and then adopt instead of creating a new list
2020-10-09 Discussions of how reconcile RDA list with Non-RDA entities. Possible effects on id.loc.gov
Default branch name - WAIT until we can use github tools January 2021
Upcoming meetings
Virtual Blacklight Summit in early October. (Main site link and document to add lightning talk/breakout session ideas) - Huda is on unofficial committee. Expecting various follow-ons from earlier meeting this year. (Discussions still in progress and, at some point, draft program will be shared with the community).
Agenda and registration link have gone out. Will be intro workshop, time for lightning talks and longer sessions. Sessions for plugin discussion including call-number browse
Pre conf workshop Tuesday on blacklight customization (4h on zoom!), continuing with 2h/day
Huda gave talk on Blacklight and linked data; recordings will be available soon
https://kula.journals.publicknowledgeproject.org/index.php/kula/announcement/view/1. Call for Proposals - Special Issue: "The Metadata Issue: Metadata as Knowledge". Due January 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"