2022-09-07

Introduction, agenda review

Paloma

• Paloma facilitating, Melanie taking notes

• Summarizing where we left off on each agenda item

Dataset 

All

• On Katie’s spreadsheet, Yogita has been adding existing Wikidata entry links

• Do we want to use this dataset and focus exclusively on https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/projects/african-american-texas?   

  • Focus on people only, not topics or organizations

  • Size/# of entries we want? couple/few hundred, sweet spot so folks have plenty to work with, and progress/accomplishment is visible at end of workshop. 

  • Programmatic approach to developing the workshop dataset? Paloma can help with queries to hone it.

  • Using TIDs provided by HoT folks as cross-reference to hone dataset?

  • Suggestion to focus on categories across HoT projects (e.g. Women, Museum/Libs/Archives)

• Katie and Yogita will continue to lead dataset development based on these suggestions

Handbook of Texas IDs

Paloma

• Review of why HoT ID property used in existing Wikidata entries presents problems, leads to broken links

  • Formatter property for HoT ID in Wikidata is out of date, needs to be updated

• Quick review of mix-n-match tool https://mix-n-match.toolforge.org/#/catalog/1896 

• Explanation of email response from HoT 

  • How stable is that existing ID property? Still being used, just not in URLs

  • How to find stable IDs? Now exposed on Citation tab at bottom of every HoT entry, as opposed to being part of the URL as they were previously

Workshop planning

All

• Session structure/timing (we're aiming to deliver 2 sessions, on the same day or separate days, tbd

  • Gauging potential attendee preferences - Stacy will ask UTL Content Management colleagues, instinct is 2 separate days, same day of week over 2 weeks.

  • Think about targeted list of individual attendees to tailor scheduling/planning, but send open invitation to cast wider net for GRAs and other staff to self-select

  • Max # of attendees?

    • Paloma shared previous HRC workshop #s: 36 registered, 20+ attended (also publicized to iSchoolers)

    • Michael shared experience/observations with GIS learning sprints:

      • attendee #s lower than registration #s, and also second session attendee #s lower. 

      • Capped at 20

Workshop segments

All

• Paloma reviewed segment proposals from last meeting

  • Do we want to move forward with these? What to add?

  • Melanie suggests adding segment to review work done in this workshop (review dashboard, progress)

  • Michael suggests adding discussion of how this applies to work, vision of using this in library/archive work

  • Paloma suggests adding discussion about perceived roadblocks/barriers to implementing or incorporating into work

  • Elliot suggests discussion: now that you’ve seen/done this, what will you do next, how will you move forward with using info/skills learned here?

  • Yogita suggests people pair up and tell each other what they are going to do with info/skills, briefly - providing space for people to form/grow working relationships 

Workshop documentation

• Paloma recommends we create Wikidata project

• Not much time spent on this topic 

UT Linked Data Learning Group shared workspace migration

All

• Google Shared Drives provided by UT are going away November 1, so what instead?

• Katie and Michael shared their approach for other projects:

  • Move to shared folder in an individual’s drive

  • Archive/backup content in UTBox

  • Videos stored in UTBox only, for space economy

• For next meeting: proposal to move away from Shared Drive - Melanie and Katie