Mission: This working group is looking at Best Practices for providing a search API to authoritative data. The primary goal is to define a path for moving toward a shared approach for defining and providing search APIs that share a common delivery structure and access mechanism using a standards based approach. This will allow for the creation of shared tools around searching authorities and, as a result, increase usage of authorities. The working group is a mix of providers of authorities, consumers of authorities, and developers who create the tools to facilitate the intersection.
First charter of the working group has ended.
- 2020-06-08 Meeting: Introductions and Brainstorming
- 2020-06-22 Meeting: Use Case Identification
- 2020-07-06 Meeting: Refining Use Cases as User Stories
- 2020-08-03 Meeting: Continuing with User Stories (cataloger focused)
- 2020-08-17 Meeting: Continuing with User Stories (cataloger focused)
- 2020-08-31 Meeting: Continuing with User Stories (developer focused)
- 2020-09-14 Meeting: Continuing with User Stories (developer focused)
- 2020-09-28 Meeting: Continuing with User Stories (developer focused)
- 2020-10-26 Meeting: Survey Development & User Stories
- 2020-11-09 Meeting: Provider User Stories
- 2020-11-30 Meeting: Provider User Stories
- 2020-12-14 Meeting: Summary Documents
- 2021-01-25 Final Meeting of First Charter
- 2021-02-01 Final Meeting of First Charter (part 2)
Deliverables
- Survey Results for Cataloger User Stories
- Cataloger User Stories for Working with Authoritative Data and Supporting Developer and Provider User Stories - This is a final summarization of the work of the first charter of the working group. User stories are organized into categories of related user stories. And each user story includes the priority as identified in the survey.
Participants
Facilitator: E. Lynette Rayle
Authority Providers
- Library of Congress
- Nate Trail (LOC)
- Kevin Ford (LOC)
- OCLC
- Kirk Hess (OCLC)
- Rick Bennett (OCLC)
- John Chapman (OCLC)
- Nancy Fallgren (NIH)
- John Graybeal (Bioportal)
- Tiziana Possemato (Casalini)
- Wikidata
- Lydia Pintscher (Wikidata)
- Jens Ohlig (Wikidata)
- Hetty van Zutphen (ISNI)
Authority Consumers
- Steven Folsom (Cornell)
- Christine Fernsebner Eslao (Harvard)
- Rob Sanderson (Yale)
Developers
- Jeremy Nelson (Stanford)
- Justin Littman (Stanford)
- E. Lynette Rayle (Cornell)
Interested Groups
- LD4 Community
- LD4P Grant
- Samvera Community
Communications
Slack channel: authority_api_wg
Working Documents
These are documents created by the group as part of the exploration process.
- Current Approaches to Providing Search APIs
- Initial Use Case Definitions - Search API Best Practices for Authoritative Data Working Group
- Needs of Consumers and Applications
- Organizing User Stories
- User Stories - Best Practices for Authoritative Data Working Group
References
- Change Management NOTES from LODLAM 2020 - Notes from the discussion on Change Management at LODLAM 2020 conference.
- 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.
