2024-12-04

Housekeeping

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• Additional agenda topics

• Announcements

• Intros for any new attendees 

  • Welcome Hannah Moutran

• Review action items from last meeting

Updates from the field

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OCLC updates

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Alma/Primo feature updates

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ELUNA community updates

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Ex Libris updates

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Webinars

• Linked Data User Group's All-Users 2024 Fall Meeting featuring Ruth Kitchin Tillman

  • Blog post

  • Elliot – Ruth talk was great. I got a lot about it.

    • Useful in thinking about data clean up and enhancement of our MARC records that would make it easier to transform it to LD in the future

    • Where should that clean up take place and what is the value of doing it in the local catalog, vs. oclc

  • Hannah – is the expectation that every single field is going to be linked data?

    • There are a series of tools and conversion scripts that institutions are going to use. They can or cannot account for all fields (LC conversion spreadsheets)

    • We will need as a community to prioritize what we want to make sure is not lost

    • We have been looking at what vendors have to offer on their end – how are they planning to do the conversion of our records, how are they planning to leverage linked data for discovery

  • Hannah – how does Wikidata fit in the implementation of linked data for libraries?

    • Platform to create and manage entities that can be reused in library workflows

• Webinar Wednesday, October 30, 2024 - Using Linked Open Data in Primo VE - Person Entity

  • Melanie's notes

• Upcoming Webinar today – https://ala-events.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEtc-qrpzkvHNLQC8SnYGQV3j9wDLaaTAsu#/registration

• OCLC Q/C Office Hours Webinar that Elliot attended

  • Elliot’s notes

PCC Linked Data Tactical Meeting

Paloma

• Agenda

Wikidata research

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• slides

• Project with Amelia Acker (ischool professor) and ischool students

• How and why information profesionals

  • Interview 15 professionals working on

  • Review all the ~200K contribution to wikidata of the PCC wikidata pilot

• Identified 3 archetypes of wikidata integration

  • Providers

  • Mutualists

  • Acquires

• Focus

  • Humans (64%)

  • Wikimedia list articles (11%)

• Analysis of institutions contribution patters

• Common challenges

  • Monitoring entries can be labor-intensive

  • Difficulty to know when to stop

  • Extractive relationship between Wikidata and Indigenous knowledge

• Next steps

  • Differences in focus areas across organizations

  • What happens to information professionals' contributions on Wikidata? And how do they help AI answer questions?

• Timeline for the research

  • Analysis – wrap it up around May

• How are you analyzing the data

  • Aggregated information on when what and who has updated a property

• Was it possible to analyzed the way that organizations contributed with each other?

Retrospective review of 2024

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• save for January 2025 meeting

Brainstorm goals for 2025

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• save for January 2025 meeting

• Spring 2025 meetings scheduled in 2:30-4pm time block (4th Wednesdays still)

• TCDL proposal (deadline Sunday, February 23)