Work on the report draft | All | - Paloma reached out to Devon about contributing to report - they are on board, already adding info about ISL8 at UTL, and collaborative project w/ University of FL to create a comprehensive Spanish language thesaurus.
- PeriodO - where does it fit in our report scope? Seems somewhat beyond our focus on UTL and HRC linked data landscape
- Reference it as opportunity to connect/collaborate w/ other linked data projects on campus.
- Paloma added LD4 Community section and Sinopia section
- HRC has been using Sinopia, training themselves to catalog in this editor
- Opportunities for HRC staff to provide Sinopia training to CM staff at UTL?
- Good scaffolding/transition for official RDA
- PCC Sinopia affinity group is a good resource, Paloma notes Ann Marchock has been attending
- Report will be useful for our own group as well,, honing in on areas for strategic planning, knowledge sharing, & training.
- Where/how is UTL and HRC leadership getting info about LD initiatives currently?
- UTL communications are ad-hoc at this point, more likely communicated up the chain if tied to grant work
- Our group could potentially take up the charge to be a formal communication channel, and take on that role in our org
- Since our membership here includes members of formal UTL Metadata Steering Group, we can be intentional about communicating there
- Observing that training and preparedness for linked data seems to be missing from strategic priorities/plans at our respective institutions
- Can we contribute linked data-related line items to strategic plans going forward?
- Example of ArchivesSpace shared as current specific line item in plan, enabling institutional resources to be planned and allocated accordingly
- While strategic goals and skills with specific tools/technologies are important aspects of linked data work, there is a big gap/grey zone of colleagues eagerly waiting for direction on how to actually implement (e.g. decision-making & procedural guidelines, policies, workflows, etc.). Workshops could fill some of that gap, but more attention needs to be directed to this zone.
- Need to add Wikidata and AI in terms of technology trends
- High level takeaways from discussion:
- Attend to the implementation gap/grey zone raised in discussion
- Formalize a communication role for our group to routinely share information about linked data initiatives with our institutional leadership
- ArchivesSpace and Sinopia as focal topics for coming year, since we know there is existing institutional investment in those.
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Discuss possibilities for a Wikidata workshop 2024 | All | - Could help to address previously mentioned gap of how/why to DO linked data
- Interest in submitting TCDL 2024 proposal that repurposes parts of our 2023 workshop - deadline for all conference proposals is Sunday, March 3, 2024.
- Will pick this up in January 2024
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