2025-01-22

Housekeeping

Melanie

• 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

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• 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. 

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• 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)