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2020-09-23

2020-09-23

Feb 11, 2021

Date

Sep 23, 2020

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

Item

Who

Notes

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Who

Notes

House keeping

Itza

History of the group

Itza

  • 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 transition

Melanie

  • 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 poll

Itza

  • 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