2019-01-18 going well and could (if tailwind) complete next week else will be 3 weeks because of other commitments
E. Lynette Rayle (from discussion of LC Names in QA with context) 1) investigate & document algorithm for selection of languages with label and/or no label
E. Lynette Rayle (from discussion of LC Names in QA with context) 2) fix known bug in returning label in case with no language match (need to check whether it still exists after refactor)
Huda Khan is working on whether usability work on catalogs has been done internally as well as externally to CUL. Code4Lib journal and another has some details
Have been looking at usability work and literature. Found some older material on Blacklight tests (when facets new), not so much after that. Some log analysis on SearchWorks. Also looking at linked data browser tools. Interesting dissertation from a few years ago on LD exploratory search. See discovery folder, literature exploration NOTES DOCUMENT, initial discussions with Tim regarding knowledge panels etc. , and also Stanford NOTES FROM LAST SUMMER
Huda Khan will set up another meeting with Jason, Tim, and Astrid to plan way forward with the Discovery work plan.
2019-01-25 - Steven spoke with Marc and Christine this week and they are doing research on a general lookup of Wikidata entities with a nod to the Wikidata fingerprints (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase/DataModel/Primer); they will be adding comments and links to Issue #15 soon.
Huda Khan has created local fork of Sinopia editor and see what it takes to get front-end to do things to get them in-line with what we want to see... without affecting Stanford's development work
Have started looking at code and looking at use of React. Expect to work on this at beginning February
Steven would like to try uploading a profile
E. Lynette Rayle to work with Dave on QA/DAVE presentation at LD4 Conference
2019-01-18 Going to do this with Dave, working on it this pm
Huda Khan to discuss with Astrid possibility of UX presentation
2019-01-18 Have discussed with Astrid. Abstract "yes" so far
Jason Kovariwill discuss in LTS whether there a URIs from Share-VDE data that are useful and might be added to catalog
2019-01-18 Unknown status
ALL - discuss Cornell goals at LD4 meeting and who might go
Still need to (hopefully for next week Steven Folsom ):
update propertyTemplates that involve lookups to abide by the syntax generated by the Sinopia Profile Editor for QA (QA look ups are available as drop-downs in the profile editor now)
communicate this work has happened in case others might want to used templates I've created (e.g. RWO profiles instead of Authorities, GeoNames instead of LCNAF)
negotiate how far to move away from some LC BFLC patterns and using entities instead of literals (especially in the case where BF, RDA, etc. have properties)
Create song template, just haven't gotten to this.
Enhanced Discovery
See notes regarding usability work above. Astrid is conducting user interviews with researchers to understand discovery needs and has completed three of these so far.
Preliminary impressions: 2 areas: (a) Shorter-term Blacklight contributions: knowledge panel design and integration while bringing in linked data, schema output, and design and implementation of connecting to/integrating authorities (but linked data versions?), (b) design and exploration around how linked data could be integrated into discovery such as semantic search (which may involve interesting alignments between info modeled in ontologies and traditional library search and may even intersect with machine learning/NLP options), possibly resulting in prototypes that address particular user concerns (e.g. identifying related items, demonstrating more clearly what information is actually present and related within the search space, etc.). Based on literature/existing work, appears there are definite improvements to the search experience that are possible and preferred. Also very related to user experience: relevance and search algorithms.