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2022-07-27

2022-07-27

Owned by Melanie Cofield
Last updated: Jul 28, 2022

Date

Attendees

  • Melanie Cofield

  • Paloma Graciani-Picardo

  • Elliot Williams

  • Yogita Sharma

  • Nancy Sparrow

  • Katie Pierce Meyer

  • Geoffrey Potter

  • Brenna Edwards

  • Michael Shensky

Recording

Agenda

Discussion items

ItemWhoNotes
Recap of May/June activitiesKatie, Melanie, Michael, Paloma
  • TCDL Birds of a Feather Session - Melanie gave overview
    • 20+ attendees 
    • 2 discussion topics 
    • Wide range of LD familiarity among attendees
    • 9 folks beyond organizers expressed interest in continuing to converse & coordinate on LD topics, form TDL community of practice
  • TDL Linked Data community of practice, kickoff meeting Friday 07/22
    • Many attendees are using Alma/Primo, which has options for working with and displaying linked data, excitement about possibilities of coordinated experimentation
    • Excitement about creating a shared local authorities resource, maybe using Handbook of Texas online
  • Relationship between this UT-based group and the TDL Linked Data community of practice?
    • Recognition that we'll need to be mindful of keeping things manageable and valuable for folks to participate in both
    • Our group can maintain focus on UT resources/collections/priorities
LD4 2022 Conference TakeawaysAll
Wikidata workshopAll
  • Revisit brainstorming document
  • Recap conversations about workshop from earlier in the year, goals
    • Inquiring with UTL colleagues about Digital Humanities/Digital Scholarship overlap/interest in linked data/Wikidata 
    • Discussing how to raise awareness/showcase existing projects to wider audience
    • Through discussion, we decided our immediate audience focus should be colleagues in our libraries/archives, instead of wider campus community
  • Tasks now at hand: Pick a dataset of common interest, set up hands-on Wikidata workshop akin to those we heard about in LD4
  • Planning and delivery timetable?
    • Recognizing work outside our regular monthly meetings is necessary
    • Spending time to craft workshop focus mindfully, with possible IDEA tie-ins
    • Communication/set-up to effectively pique interest, convey context, and bring people up to speed quickly
    • mid-late Fall term is ambitious goal, possibly consider Spring term 2023?
  • Next steps:
    • Do more workshop brainstorming b/t now and next meeting, outlining tasks to assign out
    • Engage volunteers to take on assignments
    • Katie will look more closely at the Handbook of Texas and come up with more concrete workshop ideas - Elliot happy to help
    • Elliot is open to investigate data sources or strategize workshop structure

Action items

  • Create shared document with outline of workshop planning tasks that can be assigned
  • Engage Katie and Elliot in workshop planning before next meeting
  • Define concrete activities for hands-on workshop using Handbook of Texas



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