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
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
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 - 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 - retrospective review of 2024, brainstorm goals and ideas for 2025