2023-12-13

Intro, reflecting on 2023 accomplishments

Paloma

• We have accomplished a lot: 

  • solid start on report draft

  • digging into Alma/Primo Linked Data features and roadmap

  • building common understanding of PCC LOD work. 

Work on the report draft

All

• Shifting our report target deadline to mid 2024

  • will allow incorporation of findings from Spring 2024 iSchool capstone project Melanie is supervising

• Paloma reached out to Devon about contributing to report - they are on board, already adding info about ISL8 at UTL, and collaborative project w/ University of FL to create a comprehensive Spanish language thesaurus.

• PeriodO - where does it fit in our report scope? Seems somewhat beyond our focus on UTL and HRC linked data landscape

  • Reference it as opportunity to connect/collaborate w/ other linked data projects on campus.

• Paloma added LD4 Community section and Sinopia section

  • HRC has been using Sinopia, training themselves to catalog in this editor

    • Opportunities for HRC staff to provide Sinopia training to CM staff at UTL?

    • Good scaffolding/transition for official RDA 

  • PCC Sinopia affinity group is a good resource, Paloma notes Ann Marchock has been attending 

• Report will be useful for our own group as well,, honing in on areas for strategic planning, knowledge sharing, & training. 

• Where/how is UTL and HRC leadership getting info about LD initiatives currently? 

  • UTL communications are ad-hoc at this point, more likely communicated up the chain if tied to grant work

  • Our group could potentially take up the charge to be a formal communication channel, and take on that role in our org

  • Since our membership here includes members of formal UTL Metadata Steering Group, we can be intentional about communicating there

• Observing that training and preparedness for linked data seems to be missing from strategic priorities/plans at our respective institutions

  • Can we contribute linked data-related line items to strategic plans going forward?

    • Example of ArchivesSpace shared as current specific line item in plan, enabling institutional resources to be planned and allocated accordingly

• While strategic goals and skills with specific tools/technologies are important aspects of linked data work, there is a big gap/grey zone of colleagues eagerly waiting for direction on how to actually implement (e.g. decision-making & procedural guidelines, policies, workflows, etc.). Workshops could fill some of that gap, but more attention needs to be directed to this zone.

• Need to add Wikidata and AI sections to report in terms of technology trends

• High level takeaways from discussion:

  • Attend to the implementation gap/grey zone raised in discussion

  • Formalize a communication role for our group to routinely share information about linked data initiatives with our institutional leadership

  • ArchivesSpace and Sinopia as focal topics for coming year, since we know there is existing institutional investment in those.

Discuss possibilities for a Wikidata workshop 2024

All

• Could help to address previously mentioned gap of how/why to DO linked data

• Interest in submitting TCDL 2024 proposal that repurposes parts of our 2023 workshop - deadline for all conference proposals is Sunday, March 3, 2024.

• Will pick this up in January 2024