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Attendees: Tim, Steven, Lynette, Simeon, Huda, John, Jason

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Agenda & Notes

Review actions from 2020-02-14 Cornell LD4P2 Meeting notes

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Status updates and planning

  • OCLC Entity Management Mellon Grant Advisory Board
    • Add almost everyone.
  • Discovery presentation 3/3 debrief
    • positive feedback from many; high engagement from attendees
    • open syllabus data had positive review
    • timeline: visuals! there was at least one person who really liked this
    • knowledge panel – critique was wrt: info overload but not that this was not worth-while
    • auto-suggest and no-search-result both well-received
    • discogs metadata was well-received - method of bringing in trusted data. there are use cases where we may wish to index discogs data for search
    • recording is in Drive. notes will be there. is it alright to send out follow-up email thanking people for attending with a link to the video? Questions raised about privacy, value for viewers and whether this should be public v. CUL-only.  Notes summarizing can go on wiki. DECISION: put video in LD4P-Internal. Can share internally for those who request.
    • Follow-up: summary of what we think we've learned. Goal is to prioritize work based on strongest feedback. Wait until next Friday to share broadly, assuming we've made decisions at that point.
      • this affords us 3.5 months to work on moving 1-3 items toward production... but not making it production-ready. includes analyzing existing infrastructure and consider whether formal usability testing is possible/advisable (using usability working group)
      • we are not looking at new work... this is to take current work forward
  • Cataloging Sinatra and other 45's (Discogs data, https://github.com/ld4p/qa_server/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3ADiscogs)
    • Lookups for place not usable and hence places are not being recorded, relies on work from Dave to fix: https://github.com/LD4P/qa_server/issues/248 & https://github.com/LD4P/qa_server/issues/240
    • Have a currently insurmountable issue with nested profiles. When create Work profile with nested Instance profile there isn't a URI for the Instance (it just gets hung from a bnode). Without a URI the title of the Instance doesn't get indexed. The Sinopia team are unable to fix this in the near term.
    • Cataloging work continues with the above limitations
    • 2020-02-28 Steven update – I did a bunch of PCC profile and LOC policy related writing/correspondence; met with Huda, Tim, and John to discuss the Discovery Event (happy to help facilitate/notetake/rove on the day of the event); worked with Sinopia team to understand title search and display bugs that have been affecting Sinatra work (Jeremy has created https://github.com/LD4P/sinopia_editor/issues/2090 which looks at part of the problem); I still need to clean up the QA/Sinopia priority list to reflect the work completed by Lynette and Dave.
    • 2020-03-06: nothing new to report. 2090 issue above remain open - was not about imbedded templates but b/c label lacked lang tag... was not being indexed. Catalogers are providing feedback on UI concerns
  • Enhanced Discovery (see also https://wiki.duraspace.org/x/sJI7Bg and https://github.com/LD4P/discovery/projects/1)
    • SMASH! (dev to run through 7 Feb, then user testing, video and write-up) – dev complete, video done, Hitchcock homage and cameos still under consideration, lessons learned document (DONE) in process and also annif use summary
    • Open meeting March 3, 2-3:30pm in Mann 102 and should Zoom it too
    • Will continue on Hathi work...
    • Remains:
      • edit demo video for SMASH!
      • create Hitchcock video for talent show...
    • Next 4 months: WHAM (H may or may not be capitalized) How will we decide what to take forward from KAPOW!, BAM! and SMASH!? (or as Tim put it, "what happens in late February?")
    • Do discovery session... get feedback
    • Knowledge panels – could we make a component that is easily reusable in any Blacklight? How much are local customizations key?
    • Semantic stuff .. annif ... relationships in data to get relevant semantic links and use of hierarchy in data 
    • Call number browse and other virtual browse notions, with semantics/facets?
      • Use of linked-data descriptions from Sinopia - what can we do in discovery that is different?
  • Authority Lookups for Sinopia (Lookup infrastructure: https://github.com/LD4P/qa_server/projects/2, Authority requests: https://github.com/LD4P/qa_server/projects/1)
    • When deployment issue solved... will then put out CERL and ligatus and extended context for MeSH along with sub-authorities. Also some refactoring associated with monitoring status page (including fixing a memory leak due to a long-used hash - ruby doesn't reclaim space from deleted entries)
    • MeSH had typo at the Sinopia-level: FIXED; prs merged
    • FAST: EventName entity is now MeetingName. Until fix is in, QA Server is down. Cached data remain correct... until update, that'll work. Different configs already in place for direct access v. access to cache. 
    • ISNI: requested feedback; Steven sent email summarizing good example of data; Lynette used that to discuss how QA would interact with those data. Challenges: no primary label (closest is ISNI #). Alt labels: huge list with no language taging but clearly in various scripts and languages. All are equal so presents challenges. In ISNI UI, show person's name - clearly the Eng name is somewhere... they really need lang tag OR pref label. This is a problem beyond ISNI
    • Dave is working on indexing diacritics and various grammatical characters. 
    • Need answer whether attempts to improve performance by indexing will indeed improve performance. LC will be the true test.
    • SHARE-VDE: issue arose re: a query where a subject was VIAF; one search brought in all of VIAF. Problem with SVDE data. Steven contacted them to ask about the data... and Dave is filtering this out on his end as a temp patch. Unclear whether they addressed issue and we have not seen it yet due to not having an updated data dumpNot sure whether Dave has redone the index to avoid SPARQL for MeSH – if it is done then we will have a comparison
  • Travel and meetings (see LD4P2 Cornell Meeting Attendances)
  • Next meetings:
    • ...2020-03-13: Simeon out. Will share thoughts re: next steps for discovery with Jason by Thursday, 3/12