2024-07-24

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 (no content on 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 - Linked Data community build around vendor/s (Casalini Libri and @Cult), akin to OCLC

      • several US universities involved, including UPenn

    • Beta discovery interface - query all PCC data

    • JCricket - entity management tool (similar to OCLC’s Meridian and Wikidata)

    • 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

  • discussion about possibility of 3rd party vendors providing Linked Data services for Alma/Primo institutions

  • Idea to maybe invite Amanda Z. Xu from National Agriculture Library to speak about what they are doing with LD and Alma/Primo

  • Overview of LOD enhancements in pending August release of Alma and Primo

    • FRBR Keys for Bibframe to Include URIs (IDs)

    • Contributor Page in Metadata Editor

    • Record Format Facet for Enhanced Repository Search

    • Brief Record Ratings Now Support BIBFRAME Records

    • Improved Display of Thumbnails

    • Link to Copyright Information on Person Page

    • Add FRBR Local Keys for Work URI and ExpressionOf URI

  • Benn gave quick demo of set of BIBFRAME records in Alma

    • how the view looks different than typical MARC record view

    • Discussion of how to create BF records via API, going to an external data source (e.g. LOC) to get RDF/XML and pull in, per Yoel Kortick article

  • Paloma: Gears are turning about how to get buy-in to create Wikidata by showing author info cards in Primo sandbox

Planning for 2024

all

• Explore Meridian and ShareVDE/JCricket and compare to Wikidata for entity creation/management at UT-Austin

• Invite speakes to join us at future meetings:

  • Anne Washington at OCLC to demo Meridian

  • Amanda Z. Xu from National Agriculture Library to speak about what they are doing with LD and Alma/Primo

• 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