2020-09-23

Date

Attendees

  • Itza
  • Paloma
  • Melanie
  • Mary
  • Katie
  • Alyssa
  • Brenna
  • Brittney
  • Michael
  • Nancy
  • Mandy
  • Beth
  • Jessica
  • Nicole

Goals

  • Discuss transition plan after Itza's departure from UT

Discussion items

ItemWhoNotes
House keepingItza
History of the groupItza
  • 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
Questions relating the transitionMelanie
  • 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
Room temperature quick pollItza
  • Level of confidence with LD -- average 3-4
  • Level of confidence with Wikidata -- average 2-3
What is everybody’s current interests?HRC
Architecture
  • 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
Texas State
  • 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
Nancy (public services)
  • Benefits of Linked Data implementation for public services work
All
  • Figuring out batch updates
Moving forward


Itza
  • 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

All
  • 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
Next meeting (10/28/2020)All
  • 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

Action items

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