Attendees: Jason, Steven, Simeon

Regrets:  Greg

Discovery (WP3)

  • BAM! WOW! (Browsing Across Music With Obtainable Wikidata)
    • 2023-10-26
      • Steven attending the Discovery Affinity Group meeting where Harvard talked about their process for designing wireframes for knowledge cards. They came up with a clever idea (a tabbed knowledge card) to bring together a lot of information. Shared with Melissa to consider own mockups to test for November sprint. Harvard's Slides. Steven is going to take this as an opportunity to think about Wikidata properties for non-music related works.
      • Wrapping up BAM! WOW! work
        • There was already a BAM! WOW! video:
        • Steven will write a summary of recent work
    • 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
  • DCMI presentation with Stanford - DONE, went well
  • 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?:

2023-11-23 - no meeting

2023-11-30 -