Charter:

Scope & Objectives

This working group focuses on best practices in support of authorities that want to share their metadata as linked data.  In this charter, the group will explore and make recommendations for change management of authoritative data.  We will define the common types of changes, determine the format for conveying changes to downstream consumers, and specify tooling options for publishing changes that allow for cached data to be synced and updated.  This work is specifically looking to provide recommendations that allow for the creation of a common toolset that works across authorities supported by different institutions.

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

Anticipated deliverables will include:

• Documentation on common types of changes that happen in authoritative data

• Specification for expressing changes that have occurred in authoritative data

• Recommendations for tooling to create and consume changes to authoritative data

The group will begin meeting in late spring 2021 (approximately mid April or 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

• Call for participation sent to communities inviting authority providers, authority data consumers, and applications developers that make authority data available to consumers.

• Meetings are scheduled for every other Monday at 9am PT, 12pm ET, 6pm CEST starting on May 10, 2021.

• Meeting notes recording action items and provisional decisions will be in the LD4P3 wiki linked from this page.

• Meetings, meeting minutes, deliverables, and milestones will be announced on LD4 google group and Slack, LD4P google group and Slack, Samvera-Community google group and Slack, and ShareVDE Slack.

• There is a dedicated Slack channel for asynchronous communication at slack: authority_api_wg

• Meetings will take place on Zoom.  See link to meetings below.

Slack channel:  authority_api_wg

Zoom: https://cornell.zoom.us/j/97833418638?pwd=WHBKS2hTTzJhYzVOalhQdjVFL2hKdz09

Meeting Notes

Documents

Working Group Documents

Membership

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

There is recognition that individuals may serve in more than one of these roles.

Members

Facilitator : E. Lynette Rayle (Cornell University)  

1. David Eichmann  (University of Iowa)
2. Christine Fernsebner Eslao  (Harvard University)
3. Nancy Fallgren  (MeSH - NLM)
4. Steven Folsom  (Cornell University)
5. Kevin Ford (Library of Congress)
6. John Graybeal  (MeSH - BioPortal)
7. Jim Hahn (University of Pennsylvania)
8. Kirk Hess (OCLC)
9. Jesse Lambertson (University of Chicago)
10. Anna Lionetti  (ShareVDE)
11. Alessandra Moi (ShareVDE)
12. Tiziana Possemato  (ShareVDE)
13. Erik Radio  (University of Colorado, ShareVDE Authority/Identity Management)
14. Lynn Ransom (University of Pennsylvanian)
15. Greg Reeve (Brigham Young University)
16. Amanda Sprochi (University of Missouri, NACO)
17. Vitus Tang (Stanford University)
18. Emma Thomson (University of Pennsylvanian)

Resources

• Change Management NOTES from LODLAM 2020