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• Announcements
• Intros for any new attendees
• Review action items from last meeting

OCLC's Meridian Entity Editor

Meridian demo and Q/A

Questions/discussion topics sent to Anne in advance:

• General comparison of Meridian to Wikidata (since we are a community of practice somewhat invested in Wikidata)
• Reusability/interoperability - Ideas/use cases for how the data can be used outside the library system?
• Who has access to contribute to it? What do access restrictions look like?
• Governance/expectations of community contributions of Meridian entities
• Similar/different from OCLC community cataloging protocols and practices?
• More about the advisory group that helped with modeling WorldCat entities in an ethical way- is this group something that will continue, or was it a one-off during the design phase?
• Who decides how this works now and going forward?  
• What does development (roadmap?) & support for Meridian look like? 
• How is Meridian integrated with other traditional OCLC services/products and customer workflows?
• Time permitting, how Meridian compares to Share-VDE’s J Cricquet editor

Updates from the field

OCLC updates: 

• WorldcCat Entities APIs

Alma/Primo feature updates: n/a

ELUNA community updates:

• LOD Community of Practice community survey on linked data (complete by 9/30)
• https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:ExLibris-Primo - third-party documentation of the use of wikidata data by the commercial library search engine Primo by ExLibris, with examples of related SPARQL queries

Ex Libris updates:

• Webinar Thursday, September 26, 2024 - Freeing Librarians with Linked Open Data: What’s Available, In-Progress, and the Future, Presented by a panel of librarians, Americas and EMEA, 10:00-1100am CST | Register
• Webinar Wednesday, October 30. 2024 - Using Linked Open Data in Primo VE - Person Entity, 10:00-11:00am CST | Register

LD4 conference October 7-11

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BIBFRAME Workshop in Europe 2024 takeaways: (save for next meeting when Ann M. can join)

• Review survey questions (local copy) and discuss responses with group

• shift meeting timeblock forward 11am-12:30pm for last 2 meetings of 2024? shift to 2:30-4pm timeblock in Spring 2025? (these look relatively open on typical attendee calendars) 
• October 23 - share takeaways from Sept ExLibris webinar and LD4 conference; review Person entity feature in UTL Primo & brainstorm questions for Ex Libris webinar on 10/30
• December 4, 11, or 18 - retrospective review of 2024, brainstorm goals and ideas for 2025