Discovery work and demonstrating what we can actually do
Followed principled decision about driving to DC (rather than flying, saving the world) and it was even a good teambuilding experience (and Huda made slides)
Influenced to binge watch "The Good Place"
Fun video intros and video editings
QA work, large diversity of authorities now supported ("much lookupification")
John joining the team, Steven's mentorship
Involving usability working group
Affinity groups – expanding beyond the project partners, kudos to those organizing
Coordination with the Stanford team, and appropriate separation of responsibilities between then teams
Adapting beyond use of students in lobby for testing
Balance in discovery work between doing a broad pass to touch on all the areas imagined and then to focus on a few key things
Ability to experiment and try out new things (e.g. use of HathiTrust API)
Steven to prioritize work and to create accuracy tests for QA, working out how extended context should work
Huda doing so much work and so much coordination and so much – and seconded!
Discussions with everyone at the table
Demonstrated ecosystem for creating entities as opposed to records
Proving that we can work with linked data to share bibliographic data
Collaboration across the grant
LD4P3
Delta
Performance challenges with cache system
COVID-19
Development bottlenecks and availability of effort in relation to user needs
Losing John at the end of the grant (bon voyage)
Ithaca has terrible tacos and general lack of Mexican food
Work to do to reach usability expectations of catalogers
Training approach starting with RDA wasn't quite right, many catalogers think of RDA from the basis of MARC so better to start from that understanding
Lack of community process to evolve BIBFRAME
Still to do for our vision...
It is a long road to library transition, need to keep working and reworking understanding of use cases