2025-01-22

• Notetaker? - Devon
•  Announcements
  • Our Resources wiki page needs to be updated - volunteers?
    • This page is useful as starting point for students and project work
    • Hannah volunteering to review content and suggest updates
  • UTL Metadata Basics LibGuide updates coming this Friday; Linked Data page in progress, coming in Summer term
  • TCDL 2025 call for proposals - submissions due February 23rd
    • Melanie is planning to propose a session on Alma/Primo for digital collections discovery and access, not linked data per se
    • Devon is planning to propose a session with Kat Strickland on the UTL guide for working with harmful materials
    • Our group efforts to build Linked Data community of practice within TDL have not gotten very far, but we still have a TDL-specific listserv and slack channel available.
• Additional agenda topics for discussion? - no

Retrospective review of 2024

• Big emphasis on learning and researching new tools and events on linked data out in the library world, maintaining collective awareness and skills up
  • Tracking & sharing updates from the field (national and regional group activities and resources, conference presentations): 
    • PCC
    • ALA
    • Ex Libris & ELUNA Linked Open Data Community of Practice
    • LD4
    • BIBFRAME
    • MidWest Collaborative for Library Services
    • LODLAM (unsure if it happened in 2024, no UT folks attended, we don't think)
• Focus on awareness and exploration of ExLibris Alma/Primo and OCLC linked data developments
  • AlmaRefine Cloud App
    • limited utility for us bc can’t handle scale of our needs and records, best for working one on one with records; it is a third-party developed app
  • Primo Person Info Card
    • We've been waiting for it to not be so buggy, value-add for Primo users, doesn't work with our Wikidata entries that don't also have LC name authorities
  • Alma BIBFRAME support 
    • increasing support alongside MARC records, opportunity for catalogers to get used to working with BIBFRAME in-situ
  • Alma Linked Open Data Enrichment Configuration
    • mediated by Access Systems LSP admins - have to choose what vocabularies to accept so not any URI can be added.
  • OCLC enhancing records with Entity URIs
    • These are coming into Alma generally speaking, although more analysis is needed to confirm all these OCLC enhancements make it in past our normalization rules applied to imported records.
  • OCLC Meridian Entity Editor
    • Entity search and download is freely available; adding and editing entities available for fee (in addition to our existing OCLC service subscriptions)
  • OCLC WorldCat Entities API
    • Shared UTL API workspace in Postman is currently in development - experimentation pending
• Wikidata knowledge & skill-building
  • TCDL Workshop
  • Research Study by Hanlin Li
• iSchool engagement
  • Spring 24 Capstone project
  • Supporting Hanlin's research

Brainstorm Ideas & Goals for 2025 - Skipped, bring to next meeting with more attendees. 

• Group brainstorm
  • What are folks most interested to get out of this group this year?
  • What do folks want to continue working on or shift focus to this year?
  • Specific projects or goals you want to work on?
• IDEA: Alternate discussion/planning and hands-on activity/workshopping month to month
  • E.g. Discuss and plan potential mini-projects or activities one month, then actually do work/activities in next month's meeting timeslot (may require coordination/setup work between these meetings)