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• Prep for Cataloging Sinatra and other 45's (Discogs data, https://github.com/ld4p/qa_server/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3ADiscogs)
  
  • ON HOLD pending 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
  • Kick-off meeting on Wednesday next week (Oct 2)

• Enhanced Discovery (see also https://wiki.duraspace.org/x/sJI7Bg and https://github.com/LD4P/discovery/projects/1)

  • BAM! (to run through end October)
    • Updating Initial draft of BAM plan
    • Will finalize BAM plan next week and start 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 focus on QA next 2 weeks. First, analysis and focus on performance (split "load" into network call, response and load into graph). Second, look at infrastructure. The work with Dave in prioritization of fixes and features
  • After this pass, plan to do a test with faster VMs to see what the impact is
• Travel and meetings (see LD4P2 Cornell Meeting Attendances)
  
  • European BIBFRAME Summit in September 16-17th-ish
    • Jason going and gave ARM/rare-cohort talk – nobody is doing anything with extensions. In Sweden they are simply doing MARC → BF without considering extensions, things just end up as notes though the problem of dealing with rare and other specialize materials is understood. NancyL talked about performed music on panel
    • Hubs in id.loc.gov, LC is creating higher level conceptual works than bf:Work with just author(s), title, date but hopefully tying together bf:Works. The hubs, e.g. http://id.loc.gov/entities/hubs/ebc4a2b9a8b705fc78e391fca975962c.html are typed as `bf:Work` and `bflc:Hub` and point to sub-works with `bf:expressionOf`
    • Casalini doing another version of high level work: SuperWork. Also have notion of MasterInstance which is somehow and "aggregation" of instances
  • 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
    • Flights are expensive .. please plan now
  • 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 10:15