2024-09-25

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

Updates from the field

OCLC updates:

Alma/Primo feature updates:

ELUNA community updates:

• LOD Community of Practice community survey on linked data (complete by 9/30)

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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OCLC's Meridian Entity Editor

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

• Review survey questions and discuss responses with group

• October - share takeaways from webinar and LD4 conference; review Person entity feature in UTL Primo & brainstorm questions for webinar on 10/30
• early December - retrospective review of 2024, brainstorm goals and ideas for 2025