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• Blacklight LD @ Stanford
  • Awesome organization by Jessie and Huda, attendees needed lots of support and facilitation after 2.5 days (it was a pretty intense meeting and people did a great job participating), only a few people stayed for the half of the 4th day
  • Jessie, Mark, Chris (Stanford) and Huda are going to BL meeting next week and will take ideas forward
  • Succeeded in synthesizing scenarios with a good mix of BL and other folks (e.g. Vufind, EBSCO, Ghent autocomplete, LC)
  • Specific suggestion to implement schema.org beyond microdata to have a JSON-LD serialization as focus of BL output
  • Outputs
    • Blacklight LD Working Meeting Google Drive
    • Blacklight LD Working Meeting Executive Summary
    • Blacklight LD Working Meeting Notes
• Prep for Cataloging Sinatra and other 45's (Discogs data, https://github.com/ld4p/qa_server/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3ADiscogs)
  
  • AWAITING more work in Sinopia to import data. Sinopia work cycle 2 will we hope include the ability to read in RDF back from Trellis. We hope that we can leverage this to import RDF from a lookup in Discogs or ShareVDE. STARTING with items not in DIscogs
  • Had kick-off meeting on Wednesday (Oct 2) and will follow up with a review of BIBFRAME and how it will be used for this work, and training around the tooling. Catalogers has accounts with Sinopia etc.. Steven adding Sinatra training material to the Sinopia drive space, immediate feedback is that some understanding of the model is required to be able to think about things like work vs instance title
  • Finding issues with sub-entities being tied to profile for the parent limiting editing flexibility (e.g. instance is tied to the particular work profile)
• Enhanced Discovery (see also https://wiki.duraspace.org/x/sJI7Bg and https://github.com/LD4P/discovery/projects/1)
  • BAM! (to run through end October)
    • For reference: Initial draft of BAM plan
    • Initial discussions this week with developers and Steven and Jason to go over development work
    • Started to add issues for development exploration to the GitHub project
    • Will review browse mockup evaluations Astrid Usong and Huda Khan did at Stanford last week
    • Did some evaluations on mockups at Stanford last week with freshmen undergrads, some of whom had never yet used the library catalog. Included broader and narrower in subject facets; and offering different browse axes for author, subjects, geographical and timeline
    • In item view, Tim looking at call number browse and expanding work on subject browse started in K'PAOW!
    • For timeline, John looking at subject era facet that depends on FAST which has labels and connections
    • Huda looking at querying subject headings, discussed with Dave and running long queries to extract data set. Looking at fairly coarse grained set of top level subject headings as a possible entry point
    • For geographical browse looking at subject areas for regions. In our current catalog the data is quite sparseShould define and review specific scenarios that can provide context around development
• Authority Lookups for Sinopia (Lookup infrastructure: https://github.com/LD4P/qa_server/projects/2, Authority requests: https://github.com/LD4P/qa_server/projects/1)
  
  • Lynette will keep focus on QA next week
  • RDA registries included as a single authorities with sub-authorities for the different areas, now available in Sinopia. This has been straightforward because of consistent SKOS model and clean data
  • Open question about cohort members who want to use LC versions of RDA vocabs. Discussion on #on id.loc.gov email list and Matt Miller asking for feedback on data dumps
  • Performance – analysis on laptop clearly shows that from QA server perspective the http load is the dominant part of the problem with the slowest third of requests taking 2.5-6s for load. The normalization part is next slowest, taking ~0.8s for the slowest third. Need to check analysis is correct and also run on AWS. Will discuss the load portion with Dave. And also do swarm test.

• Travel and meetings (see LD4P2 Cornell Meeting Attendances)
  
  • Blacklight Summit will be at Duke, 9, 10, 11 October at Duke
    • Huda
  • Samvera Connect, week of October 21 (WUStL)
    • Lynette to present on QA (Simeon also going but not on LD4P funds)
  • Fall partner and cohort meeting in DC, November 12/13
    • Cohort and Partner Meetings#3: November 12-13 2019, Library of Congress
    • Tim will be on D&A sprint that week, everyone else should plan on attending
    • Team bus will leave Ithaca ~2pm Monday, return Thursday morning. We'll stay around Dupont, perhaps Holiday Inn or Darcy next door? Simeon will get the bus
  • 5th International LODLAM SUMMIT at the The Getty Center in Los Angeles. February 3-4, 2020
    
    • Steven is on the planning committee, Lynette and Simeon to apply
    • Expect to have a "tool challenge" - a competition before the conference
  • LD4 Conference at College Station, TX (TAMU) - May 13/14, 2020
    • Jason is on PC
  • rdfs:seeAlso Conferences Related to Linked Data in Libraries
• Next meetings:
  • 10/4: Jason leaves at 10:1511 Huda @ BL summit