2022-07-27

Recap of May/June activities

Katie, 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 Takeaways

All

• Paloma gave a quick explanation/overview of LD4 

  • https://sites.google.com/stanford.edu/ld4-community-site/home

  • LD4 https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/LD4P 

  • LD4P2 https://wiki.lyrasis.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=104568167

  • LD4P3 https://wiki.lyrasis.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=187176106 

  • PCC Wikidata Pilot https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_PCC_Wikidata_Pilot

• Good to hear about small-ish projects in LD4 Conference sessions where staff are getting hands-on experience with linked data

• #ld4challenge to all here who attended/plan to watch conference sessions: Post your top 3 recommendations to the tdl-linked-data@utlists.utexas.edu listserv and to the tdl-community.slack.com #linked-data channel

Wikidata workshop

All

• 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

  • Focus on Handbook of Texas

    • https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook

    • https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P6015 

    • https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/projects

      • Special projects to expand info on women/tejanos/african americans in Texas

  • Focus on adding references? 

• 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