Date: 04 Oct 2019

Attendees:  Jason, Steven, Tim, Adam, Lynette, Simeon

Regrets: 

Agenda & Notes

Review actions from 2019-09-27 Cornell LD4P2 Meeting notes

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Status updates and planning

• Blacklight LD @ Stanford
  • Awesome organization by Jessie and Huda, attendees needed lots of support and facilitation after 2.5 days, only a few people stayed for the half of the 4th day
  • Both 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)
  • 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)
  
  • 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
  • KickHad kick-off meeting on Wednesday next week (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
• 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)
  
  • 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 attendingFlights are expensive .. please plan now
    • 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 10:15