Date:

Attendees: Tim, Huda, Steven, Simeon

Regrets: Jason, Lynette

Reflection on Virtual Blacklight Summit in 8-10 November

  • Main site: bit.ly/blacklight2021, Community notes
    • Community: Depending on day, between 30 and 60? participants (don't have official number right now).  
      • Conversations around plugins, contributions and PRs, who is a committer, upgrading, how to  improve developer experience, how to continue discussion around overall directions
    • Examples of Blacklight use outside the library space or with non-MARC data
    • Blacklight 7 in a transitional space from older partial-based customization and newer ViewComponent approach (expectation Blacklight 8 will use the latter alone)
    • Expecting some monthly committer/community call for better planning

Discovery (WP3)

  • https://github.com/LD4P/discovery/projects/2 for issues etc. 
  • Draft of a discovery plan: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zKYW7FQVVNvyd0XjjW0qWznX9PC3jbmOE6Kz_yygPjs/edit?usp=sharing
  • Research: how to go from knowledge graph to an index
  • DASH! (Displaying Authorities Seamlessly Here)
    • Dashboard design meeting kickoff notes
    • https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PgQi3xobsPhr9DUHU_YGeimL1OjNiiTdkiNWb36r3Gg/edit
    • Usability testing and followup for DASH: Usability results
    • 2021-11-05
      • Didn't demo to user reps as that meeting got moved up to Wednesday
      • Doing demo for D&A team today
      • Have found some inconsistency in the structure of the data returned by id.loc.gov resulting in things showing or not if reloaded. It turns out that the data itself seems consistent so have been able to work around this. Will email Kevin to ask what might be going on
      • Tim has been working on code cleanup and making the layout consistent; and also using exclusion information from YAML config
      • Jason notes that as this moves toward production we'll have to think about who owns the exclusions file and how that will be maintained
    • 2021-11-12
      • Tim has been busy!. Worked on creating branch within D&A and moving our code and reconciling with other changes, some work with Huda to fix counts which was a problem with the search fields, also fixed links (Meeting with user reps after this call)
      • Huda: Did slack Kevin about id.loc.gov but haven't heard back.
        • Also worked on updating exclusion mechanism to rely on index heading alone (can explain why this was different before)
  • BANG! (Bibliographic Aspects Newly GUI'd)
    • Jamboard link
    • Expect to include Works. Need to do something beyond what we already have live from the OCLC concordance data.
    • 2021-11-12:
      • Huda revisiting item view integration, included "online" field info and indicate (for debugging) whether related works coming in from PCC ISBN or LCCN relationships, etc. Began work on LOC Hubs in this page, some debugging, and thinking about how to bring this information back so it connects to catalog results.  Also need to revisit work to work relationships (have a data file and will bring this in for viewing later). 
      • Steven researching IMDB and Dune : )
        • Though we don't have the movie in our collection yet, Dune (2021) it's a pretty good example for BANG because it's based on a book, but unfortunately for us IMDB's mission isn't to plug books in their RDF (no schema:isBasedOn assertions). I think we might still want to consider whether to incorporate schema:image, schema:trailer (embed or link out), schema:description (though in some cases we might have summary notes for movies in our bibs already).
        • Ratings and reviews are interesting to consider... I doubt some librarians would be open to opinions being added to our descriptions, but I remember reading a little while back that the Vet Library was actively collecting for pleasure movies, etc. for students to help with supporting belonging, stress, campus life. As someone trying to view a movie from that perspective ratings, reviews, and trailers are helpful.
        • It's not in the schema block, but we might be able to recreate the more like this part of the IMDB page. Which is a little more work-to-work BANG-like.
        • There is really great data in Wikidata and IMDB, but not finding a shared identifier for each example in our catalog. If we think this is worth pursuing (we should confirm if browsing/pleasure viewing is a use case), we might have to rely on "fuzzy" matching, similar to the Discogs work when there is no id.
  • DAG Calls

Linked-Data Authority Support (WP2)

  • Qa Sinopia Collaboration – Support and evolve QA+cache instance for use with Sinopia
  • Best Practices for Authoritative Data working group (focus on Change Management)
    • 2021-11-12- Working on the documentation rewrite. Mostly worked on the containerization documentation since Stanford is ready to test as early as next week.
  • Cache Containerization Plan - Develop a sustainable solution that others can deploy
    • 2021-11-12
      • Lynette continuing to work on refining the documentation. There are 2 scripts and I am able to successfully run the first script. Associated resources (e.g. S3, EFS mount, etc.) are all created.  All associated documentation for the first script is complete. The rest should go smoothly since it is a very similar process to the first. Targeting to have it done by early next week to be able to pass it off to Stanford for testing.
      • Greg working on templates for associated resources, now to do instructions
      • Targetting sending off to Stanford early next week, like "the first release"

Other Topics

  • Github branch renaming
  • Sinolio - Sinopia-FOLIO
    • 2021-11-05 - Retrospective for 2 week sprint today, some discussion around expected UI. Expect to engage in new sprint which will stand up new FOLIO instance for this work
  • OCLC Linked Data / Entities Advisory Group
    • 2021-11-05 Lynette involved in meeting with John Chapman to discuss integration.  "meeting with OCLC to look at integrations of Sinopia/QA with their entity backbone via their new API platform"  Meeting will include most of the Sinopia team.  Not clear who will attend on the OCLC side.
  • PCC 
    • 2021-10-27 Definitions and non-RDA examples in MARC examples continued to shift, but should be able to finalize the spreadsheet that generates the RDF today.
    • 2021-11-04- Nothing new to report.
  • Authorities in FOLIO
    • 2021-11-04 Laura, Julia, Jenn and Steven met this week to discuss getting URIs in our MARC records. We're going to try to abide by the same decisions reflected in OCLC's export options for URIs. Because every imaginable process for getting URIs relies on string matching we're meeting again next week to define scope and matching algorithms so that we're not adding a bunch of bad URIs.

Upcoming meetings

  • https://kula.uvic.ca/index.php/kula/announcement/view/1 .  Submission for special Issue: "The Metadata Issue: Metadata as Knowledge".  
    • Folder Link, CFP + Brainstorming
    • Huda will schedule a meeting to discuss response to reviews
      • This meeting was held. Next meeting next Tuesday. Document set up for defining high level points in intro and conclusion we wish to make. 
  • SWIB (11/29-12/3) virtual again this year - No proposals submitted

Next Meeting(s), anyone out?:

  • 2021-11-19 ...

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