Working on Data Sources Report and seeking comments, will continue write-ups. Link
Discussed IMDB with Frances, got pointer on how to query how many items have a given uniform title but also caveats
Slides to start bringing together lit review/design info (WIP)
DAG Calls
2022-04-29
Did session to reverse engineer the future depicted in Astrid's chalet pictures based on input from students about what they might find useful. Had 7 people discussion designs and exploring data questions. Thinking about narrower and broader, what they should imply, what terms users might understand better. Astrid will revise mockup
May 10 will have Patrick from U Ghent to talk about autosuggest and other projects related to CIDOC CRM and SOLID
Document started re: Comments, Questions and Suggestions offered during the myriad of presentations provided. Draft here
Huda has some extra notes to add
Can perhaps refine this into topics/themes or clarification questions
Met with Dave and Steven to strategize approach to remaining open issues. Most of the high priority requests are in Dave's area (e.g. Current Focus board: total results for pagination, bug that includes results from outside authorities, documenting search syntax). Lower priority requests on Dave's list are very unlikely to get done before he is fully retired end of June (e.g. Infrastructure board: left anchor browsing, type ahead, results in alphabetical order). And authority requests that also likely won't get done (e.g. Authority board: OLAC, include context across Getty vocabs, ORCID). Plan to continue meeting over the next 2 weeks.
Plan to review issues not assigned to boards and triage/prioritize. Steven is also going to look at issues with an eye for prioritization, especially for outstanding authority requests and feature requests.
Go over QA configs for authorities with Steven to transfer knowledge.
Review documentation for QA, QaServer to see if I need clean up/fill out.
Our QA linked-data module is the same as current with Samvera
It would be nice if I could get a final-ish report done that contains all the information, perhaps a bit rough around the edges. My intention is to focus my priorities on the switch to QaServer and release of Exhibits over Spotlight 3.0. It is possible those will be done by end of next week. If so, I will have some time to see if I can get this to a reasonably functional place.
Dave intends to create a proof-of-concept consumption of LOC data
How might we keep the working group going? We have willing participation from producers, will need more effort to get to the stage of implementation. Steven will facilitate meetings, Simeon to try to join where possible
Containerization
2022-04-29
Containerizing the QaServer - Everything is ready for the switch. Two tasks to make the final switch. The database for the current production system needs to be copied to the container's database. Then just switch of the namespace.
Greg got started on a Terraform basis but not too far
Lynette will not plan to work on this
How do we pause authority work?
What do we need to keep the lights on?
Lynette rarely has to tend to it
Somebody needs to get pingdom notifications. Usual problems are Dave's cache or external authority caches. Reload for status page is an activity in GitHub so easy to do. Also, when creating a new authority, just add to authorities to directory in github, gets automatically deployed to stage but then manual action to deploy to prod. Need to document this
Greg well versed in AWS mechanics and GitHub, Steven knows about adding an authority
What will restart look like?
Requests that might come up: QA handles language if authorities do, but so far only Agrivoc handles this properly. Many discussions with Kevin about languages in alt labels
Skills for QA: Ruby developer, helpful to know RDF (LDPath especially, RDF library does processing)
Other Topics
Sinolio - Sinopia-FOLIO
2021-12-17 - Work Cycle finished, sprint video out
OCLC Linked Data / Entities Advisory Group
2021-12-10 OCLC presented at bigheads meeting this week, in testing
PCC
2021-01-21 Definitions and non-RDA final report to POCO (hopefully) to be submitted next week
2022-01-14 Nothing new to report.
Authorities in FOLIO
2022-03-25 Some transitions in team. Useful meeting with Jenn, Frances, Nick, and Darcy to decide what needs to be provided to build queue. Mockups look good and allow filtering on types of change (new, deleted, updated). Quite different indexing requirements for data maintenance vs discovery
Upcoming meetings/presentations
LD4 conference - 2 proposals from Huda and Steven submitted