2020-09-23

• Syllabus is hosted on Itzas personal page: https://wikis.utexas.edu/display/~iac495/UT+Linked+Data+Informal+Learning+Series 
• UT box for readings and slides:
• Listserv: https://utlists.utexas.edu/sympa/info/ld-learning 
• Slack channel: http://bit.ly/37Eudwj

• Meeting since Fall 2018
• Start from the bottom to learn about LD. Just foundations, no heavy tech talk
• What do we need to know, before we start talking about where we want to go
• Between 6 to 3 sessions per semester
• Itza facilitates tutorials every monthly meet up
• It eventually evolved to case study presentations
• Very Group driven
• Itza used to do all the administration, but folks started chiming in
• Today
• Planning meeting
• We have done that on the past at the beginning of the semester to figure out what we want to focus the semester on
• Last Semester, it was focused on Wikidata

• We are allowed to create a group wiki instead of having it associated with a person. 
• Listserv -- who is the co-owners now?
• Owners: Jessica, Itza, Michael
• Moderators: Paloma and Katie
• UT box co-ownership can be tricky. We might want to double check

• Level of confidence with LD -- average 3-4
• Level of confidence with Wikidata -- average 2-3

• PCC wikidata pilot: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_PCC_Wikidata_Pilot

• Architecture - Using Wikidata to create authorities
• Alyssa - looking at creators on the Architecture archives to figure out minimum viable record for both persons and Architecture Firms

• Nicole (Archivist) and Mary (database management) are working on a Oral History project. Right now interested in batch updating
• Also working as part of the PCC Wikidata pilot -- adding/editing faculty pages as well as adding “archives at” property for special collections

• Benefits of Linked Data implementation for public services work

• Figuring out batch updates

• How public we want to be? 
• Melanie -- how to connect with public services more strategies
• Concerted efforts during the pandemic to find project for working from home -- opportunity to open this group up a little bit
• Jessica -- so should we put out a call for participants or try to do a pitch/open house of some kind?
• Opportunity for collaboration with TDL too!
  • Bird of a Feather… but the next one will be in a while…
• Early BIBFRAME conversations
  • UT Libraries was working with HRC and Texas State and other institutions for early experimentations with BIBFRAME
  • HRC happy to look at new venues of collaboration to share lessons learnt from LD4P2 experience with BF2
• Beth - Love hearing about everybody’s project and specially what areas overlap. When this all started, one of her goals was having an infrastructure for name authorities
  • Great value on this group, need to keep the momentum going!
• Katie - Great space for learning. Need to figure out what it is that we want to learn
• Michael - really enjoys having this group as an excuse to do hands on experiments. More exploration (scipts, etc…). Also really likes the project sharing component
  • Alyssa - really enjoyed seeing some of those scripts working. Also, as a student this was really helpful for her. Great opportunity for collaboration with the ischool
• Melanie is now faculty at the ischool, so that might help
• Having one hands on activity that everybody follows, is a great opportunity develop new skills and learning
• Paloma - Bring in speakers from outside
• Idea - Batch updates to wikidata expert
• Mandy - Collect capstones opportunities from different institutions involved on this group
• Michael - there might be a conflict with IIIF community meeting, that he is attending
• Any group like ours focusing on IIIF around campus?
• Nicole SNAC has an upcoming community meeting - https://portal.snaccooperative.org/events

Logistics

• Meetings will be 1 h 30 min -- Wednesdays (10-11:30)
• Get agenda going
• Create standing meeting on 4th Wednesday of the month?
• Paloma will send invite
• What about Thanksgiving?
• Need to figure out if we want an early december date, or we still want to have a meeting on November
• Melanie - will look into creating a wiki for the group and migrate the current content

• Texas State -- high interest on batch updates for wikidata
• Show and tell for those who have wikidata projects
• Architecture
• Michael
• HRC
• What do we want to do with batch processes discussion
• Start discussion on the listserv