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Housekeeping

Paloma

• Additional agenda topics

• Announcements

• Intros for any new attendees

• Review action items from last meeting

Updates from the field

Paloma

Melanie

• ALA 2024 - San Diego

  • Experience OCLC Meridian: WordCat Entities LD creation and curation

    • Jeff Mixer and Anne Washington

    • No slides available

    • WorldCat Entities - Shared entity management infrastructure; Meridian is the entities editor; use of the editor and APIs is a paid service

  • Staying in MARC: Expectations for BF2MARC conversion and the hybrid metadata of the future

    • OCLC and PCC

    • PCC Task Group on BIBFRAME-to-MARC Conversion

      • Preliminary Repertoire of MARC Descriptive Fields from BIBFRAME

    • slides

  • Exploring the shift of MARC within the context of LD environment

    • ALA Core MARC Formats Transition Interest Group

    • The Interim Transition: MARC and Linked Data Coexistence in Library Catalogs

    • Challenges

      • Data trust

      • Dirty data

      • centralized vs. distributed model (need to figure out this piece!)

  • PCC participants meeting

    • RDA and some AI

    • PCC Task Group on AI and Machine Learning for Cataloging and Metadata (final report)

  • Share family workshop

    • Share Family

    • Beta discovery interface

    • JCricket - entity management tool

    • Share-VDE ontology - extension to BF

      • svde:Work is a subclass of bf:Work that has an expression svde:Opus, and is in a bf:Hub

      • svde:Opus @type allows to cluster by opus categories, and aids in relating a specific opus with semantically related classes

    • Sebastian Hammer (Index Data) talked about integration of the SVDE interface with FOLIO

      • Copy cataloging in MARC = maintaining data in local silos

      • SVDE, with JCricket editor is the first true LOD collaborative environment

      • Leight University prototype using BF instance from SVDE + Inventory in FOLIO + Delivery in VuFind

    • Andrea Gazzarini - Real time “RDFization”

      • Distributed linked data fragment servers - moving intelligence from servers to clients

      • Linked Data fragments - RDF serialization of the requested data is created on the fly

      • Computation is distributed across LD client (SPARQL end front) and the triple/quads pattern server

      • The Knowledge Base is required to answer to a lot of small and simple requests, instead of dealing with one huge query

• Vendor and ELUNA community updates

Planning for 2024

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• Plot out agenda topics/efforts for July - December 

• Copy of Capstone report

  • Prioritizing recommendations and next steps

  • Discuss potential structure of working documents and collaborative plan