2023-06-21

Housekeeping

All

• Introductions: Benn, welcome to the group!

Action items from last meeting

Paloma

• August meeting has been rescheduled to the 30th - DONE

• Prepare demo of current Alma/Primo LD implementations (Melanie) - DONE

• Reach out to Xiaoli Li to invite her to the August (or July) meeting (Melanie)

  • Melanie will reach out soon, following our discussion and talks with LSP folks at UTL, which will inform what she asks

  • Laura Ackermann(?) - may also be a good option

• Confirm with Jackie Shieh about September meeting (Paloma)

  • She cannot do it at the time of our meeting, she is very busy and active

  • We should find someone else to talk about local identity management

  • Smithsonian is presenting most likely at LD4 and SAA - may be good time to identify other option

ExLibris and LOD

Melanie

Linked Data functionality in Alma

• Can use APIs to extract link data: see first slide deck from Yoel above

• Publishing profile is other option - Melanie will walk through that today

• Places to see LD in Alma:

• Linked Data Advisory Group - working on recommendations for URIs in MARC

  • conversation about what are use cases

  • questions about whether manual or programmatic

• All views are dynamically generated on the fly, not permanently stored 

  • Not stored to do operational things with

  • API may be a way to get at dynamically

• Publishing profile: one way to EXPORT linked data for a set of records to enrich and so something elsewhere

  • Create a set of records to use publishing profile

  • Publishing profile does require certain permissions

    • We could create a set of titles then have Access Systems do publishing profile

  • Melanie created a set

    • Can publish on bibliographic level - output MARC21 bib, RDF, or BIBFRAME

    • Paloma: is there a limit to number of records?

      • Not that Melanie is aware if, but there may be thresholds in terms of running jobs, performance 

      • Janeice Connors might have a better sense of those thresholds

      • Benn - knowledge base article indicates that there is no limit to a set

    • Data enrichment - check Linked Data enrichment, adds URIs to datafield tags

• Paloma: would like to compare BIBFRAME generated with Sinopia 

  • Curious to know how enrichment is happening when enrichment is happening on the fly - is reconciliation happening, what decisions are being made and how

• There has to be a linked data integration profile setup to get JSON LD of BIBFRAME or RDF 

• Author card in Primo: hopefully coming in August

  • Based on custom author cards other institutions created

  • Pulling in data dynamically based on linked data

    • University of Wisconsin: Information from the Web - pulled in DB pedia and Wikidata (Gloria Steinem)

    • Hong Kong University of Science and Technology: Knowledge cards at bottom of full record display

    • If there is a Wikidata URI, will display author cards

      • If there is not, will look for other authorities - LCNAF, VIAF?

• Alma Refine in Sandbox

  • If you have a set of records, can use Alma Refine to go to reconciliation services, Wikidata included

  • Melanie encourages thus group to explore AlmaRefine!

 Discussion

All

• How do we want to further explore some of the existing Linked Data features in Alma? 

  • Paloma: wants to leverage work she has already done - Wikidata URIs identified through reconciliations

    • Can she feed a list of MMS IDs, creator name, and URIs, asking that the URIs be added?

    • Melanie has not seen how this can be done, but maybe with MARCedit 

    • Paloma shared Knowledge card in Share-vde, which is BIBFRAME data converted from MARC https://pcc-lod.org/search?q=Jules+Verne

    • Melanie: instinct is to check Ex-Libris IDEA exchange for user story and upvote or add a user story via collection form

      • Voting on Alma and Primo enhancements - two separate enhancement processes - start mid-Spring to mid-Summer

    • Generate good questions for potential speakers

    What do we want?

    • Looking to Author cards - what if it doesn't happen in August?

    • SPARQL seems off the table

    • What else should we explore - probably APIs

      • If we use APIs to retrieve linked data - what can we do with the data?

      • How do we worked with UTL on APIs?

    APIs: UTL has been conservative so far, may not need to be so much in the future/going forward

    • Working on MARCedit integration which relies on API key - stay tuned

    USE CASE: Paloma has worked on Wikibase instance (docker) for a collection - content to come!

    • Would be great to see if there is a way to connect catalog and Wikibase

    • 5000 bibliographic records

    • Creators on Wikibase instance

    • Can you explore catalog on Wikibase

    Melanie encouraging us to try API export/harvesting

    What are possibilities/ what is potential best return of investment

    Paloma dropped link to DRAFT Linked Data report:

    https://docs.google.com/document/d/16Rn8jK-PCtICxRQJE9VRt2sxN_SgZfS6oKacKkWmDfo/edit?pli=1#heading=h.cvmkv4eyab54

    We could start filling it out based on presentation/discussion

Next meeting

Paloma

• July 26

  • PCC and LOD (Speaker: Paloma)

• Reminder - LD4 Conference 2023, July 10-14

• Anyone going to ALA?