2024-04-24

Housekeeping

Melanie

• Additional agenda topics?

• May 22 meeting falls during TCDL, need to reschedule 

  • Moving it one week forward (5/29) works for mostly everyone

• New member joining! – Hanlin Li (ischool faculty)

OCLC RWO URIs

Benn

• Catalogers have reported that OCLC is enriching MARC records with RWO URIs. 

• Folks that have access to the sandbox, there is a set named BC All titles, RWO URI for viewing records containing OCLC linked data enhancements

• Paloma - opportunity to reach out to Anne Washington (ex University of Houston Metadata librarian) to learn more about OCLC entities and the entities editor Meridian

• Meeting with the OCLC reps a while back, they commented about additional linked data features coming to Connexion

Primo author info cards feature 

Melanie

• It is live in the sandbox!

• Sandbox record with info card example - https://utexas-psb.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?context=L&vid=01UTAU_INST:SEARCH&tab=Everything&docid=alma991045244449706011

• Walkthrough of the contents

• Questions regarding which one is the URI creating this info card – the card indicates LCNAF and Wikidata as source. The record has a wikidata URI in the 100. The documentation indicates that this feature is currently only working with authorities connected to LCNAF. It seems like this is currently driven by the controlled fields in Alma that have an authority in alma with LC IDs on the 035

• Unfortunately the feature is not yet ready to leverage the work that has been done to add wikidata URIs in the catalog

iSchool Capstone conclusion

all

• Report summary, Q/A

  • Rachel considers that she did not say anything new, but as an outsider she was able to build on the common threads that she was hearing

  • Some of the current areas that UT has been working for experimentation, should also be priority – special collections

  • Communicating scope is important – what is the message?

  • Pulling people in is time consuming, but engagement is very relevant to gain a critical mass

• Hanlin 

  • Comes from a computer science background

  • Main interest in where the information comes from, how is that data flowing between systems and how is that provenance documented 

• Melanie – How do you use AI in your project?

  • Created transcripts from the zoom recordings of the interviews and used ChatGPT to create summaries

• Katie has worked with capstone students to clean up a large dataset of architectural buildings using LRM

• Connections between AI and linked data

• Melanie expects to use the report for prioritizing the work of this group

• Poster session Monday 4/29, 3-4:30pm, McCombs Hall of Honors

  • No registration needed – also includes undergrad students capstones

TCDL Wikidata Workshop prep

Katie Yogita Paloma

• Workshop schedule - Day 1 (5/21) @10-11:30

  • Melanie, Katie, Yogita, Paloma met yesterday to start discussing the workshop implementation

  • Condensing the 2 sessions into one, and adapting to in person

  • Need to keep an eye in the room we are being assigned to anticipate what number of participants we can expect

  • We expect that the range of skills will be different in TCDL

• Katie is also hosting a session on collections as data

• Devon is hosting also two sessions 

Planning for 2024

all

• Goals to discuss during the June meeting (since May will mostly focused on TCDL)

  • Intention with Rachel's report was to have that outside perspective and use it for prioritization

  • Focus on Primo Author Card exploration

  • Engaging with more faculty students