2023-11-30 Cornell LD4P3 Meeting notes

Attendees: Jason, Steven, Simeon

Regrets:  Greg

Discovery (WP3)

• BAM! WOW! (Browsing Across Music With Obtainable Wikidata)
  • 2023-11-16
    • No recent sprint
    • Steven will write a summary of recent work – this will wrap up work on this for LD4P3
    • How do we continue this post-grant?
      • Will feed some of this into D&A but limited capacity for investigation and custom development
      • Should we do some planning work for D&A and build in exploration for innovation? There is an appetite for this work.
      • ACTION - Simeon to check on current plans with Jesi. Jason to check on meeting with Simeon/Bonna
      • ACTION - Jason will request that Steven be added the D&A User Reps group

Linked-Data Authority Support (WP2)

• Qa Sinopia Collaboration - Meetings with Stanford will only occur on an as needed basis. Authority request issues: https://github.com/LD4P/qa_server/projects/1 (prioritized based on "important" authorities and ease of completion)
  • 2023-11-15
    • Second sprint is wrapping up, lots of work completed
    • Got all lookups that were in the project board added. Steven added ISNI and dbpedia as extra - dbpedia added using sparql query but sometimes the query API times out – migth add this to Sinopia with a warning of timeout for non-specific queries
    • RDA terms all have local YAML files
    • MeSH being worked on - might not get finished
    • Christina cleaned up some errors
    • Matt succeeded with the upgrade to current version of Ruby etc.
    • Hope to push to production tomorrow and then Steven will add Sinopia configs for a final round of testing
    • Steven to get braindump of status from Matt and Christina at the end of the sprint, and update documentation
    • ACTION - Simeon to reach out to Lynette about updating qa_server on RubyGems, cc Matt
• Best Practices for Authoritative Data working group (focus on Change Management)
  • 2023-11-15
    • Steven following up with Dave and Kevin on last section
    • Working to close in on v1

Shared Cataloging Explorations

• SWIB workshop write-up
  • Simeon to take a pass at a write-up
• CNI presentation (Simeon and Tom)
• Meeting at LC happening 12/14-12/15

Other Topics

• POD & SHARE-VDE... should this team interact with that re: use cases, data analysis or other?
  
  • 2023-11-16 - POD data not yet loaded and may not be fully loaded until sometime in December; first chance to evaluate the full data likely in either December or January.    
• FAST at CUL
  • 2023-09-28 - position paper drafted/ready; not yet shared administratively
  • 2023-10-19 - CUL Authorities in FOLIO Working Group in contact with product owner about getting $0s for FAST in exports and reports for nic/nacs. Many nic/nacs have been replaced with established FAST>
• BIBFRAME Interoperability Group (BIG) - Steven Cornell rep
  • 2023-09-28 Steven is facilitating the SHACL DC TAPS WG, and thinking about workflows for the use of SHACL. Another group working on requirements with a focus on monographs. Another group working on PCC profiles spreadsheet for DC TAP, intention is that it stay human readable yet be translatable to SHACL. There is a prototype SHACL validator in Sinopia
  • 2023-10-16, Fiddling with spreadsheets to get them to work with Sinopia SHACL prototype. First pass at bf:Works and bf:Instances for Monographs. Will need more decisions on shapes like Titles and Agents before we have meaningful validation/reports on instance data.

Next Meeting(s), anyone out?:

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