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Yogita will not be able to attend for the moment since she has a new commitment with an SAA group, but Josh and Katie can hopefully check in and share things as relevant.
taking base numbers and using that as a conceptual category, giving those concepts a URI so that could be used for something other than books
Filling in gap in range of things where people are doing linked data
Higher level, broader conceptual
Public and school library communities as primary audience?
OCLC manages Dewey so that may be a factor
Continued discussion from last meeting
Primo Person cards/pages
response from Misu Kim at UT Dallas:
not as exhaustive or formal discussion as we have had at UTL
their library is more exploratory, and usually activate new features unless there's a compelling reason not to
as part of their library’s Primo group to review new features for activation, she recommended turning on the person/author cards
has not gotten positive or negative feedback yet, BUT one request to correct a name displayed in person info card
wants to see if there is usage data about clicks on person cards
current MixPanel data (new analytics for Primo that is part of the new Next Discovery Experience) shows users are clicking creator links more than subject, etc. - could person cards be a factor in that?
shared Irene’s report with UTL Discovery Services Advisory Group - well received, concerns resonated
UTL response - not ready for deployment, so many cards don’t have substantial information
Added to Ex Libris Idea Exchange for Primo: Melanie submitted!
Sometimes ExLibris picks up these ideas for development beyond enhancements that are voted for each year
noting that UT Dallas person cards also have Wikipedia links
noting there is an active LoC bot adding LC ID statements to to Wikidata records (Josh mentioned LD4 session next week)
Entity reconciliation for place names and venues
Ella shared Ransom Center efforts last month, nothing new to report this month, but happy to continue conversation in future
Devon has an update - UT has Spanish terms translation project with University of Florida and UC San Diego called PANA (Pan American Auhorities) - LoC source code, planning to work on an API to be able to reconcile terms to PANA, which will take time
recently met with UCLA and they shared terms, project called HAPI (recently lost NEH grant)
lots of crossover, so may be opportunity for merger or cross-citation!
May be good to continue conversation in future meeting!
Partnering with UTL Research Data Services on Linked Open Data efforts
Katie - geospatial datasets as foundational for us - done win collaboration with Michael Shensky
Some institutions have focused efforts on faculty publications - probably way to get institutional buy-in
Josh gave previous presentation in 2021 to this group: 2021-07-28Preview
gave presentation at Digital Frontiers in 2021
modeling people, buildings, events
found Wikidata structure works for
gazetteer that has data extracted from several collections so far
have been working on project over time for years
now focused on getting all data ready for ArchivesSpace, which will hopefully facilitate getting additional or all collections represented in Wikidata
record of uploaded batches to Wikidata thus far - over 6900 records
6009 have been edited, 903 unedited (this number of edits was unexpected)
Field edited the most: given name, likely because we included names in title, but didn’t always specify given name
Edits: lots of bot edits, lots adding translations of titles and descriptions, a lot adding IDs, some adding geographic data (parsing geodata into separate fields)
Manual superusers: Fralambert and Thierry Caro - both very active with heritage data throughout the world
Analysis: SPARQL query - March 2024 - all Wikidata items that have statements that cite AAA
Downloaded edit history from MediaWiki API
Want to rerun script and see what updates have been made over the last year
many IDs, including art and architecture specific as well as LoC, VIAF, etc.
So far, have not found edits that he finds problematic, they are all potentially valuable, BUT
Sex or gender - one statement that has been added, many times by bots based on names
HRC has legacy metadata about sex/genders as well as ethnicity and nationality of subjects of works - likely added without knowledge of the self identification of the subjects
Devon has best practices for trans/gender diverse resources guide - they can share!
long and short - not to record it and remove info if it was assumed without clear/obvious notation
Suggestion to request sex or gender property in Wikidata be split apart
Ella - have you found instances where you find records that exist but they are not structurally or conceptually what you are are wanting?
We definitely have instances where we see records for individual architects and related firms or a building / company that occupied the building being confused
It would be great to have some follow up discussions!