Metadata Call 2023-01-24

Time: 2:00pm-3:00pm Eastern

Call-In Info: https://osu.zoom.us/j/92616270540?pwd=VzN6bEVlR3NGbjZDdFNueWpRUVMvQT09

Community Notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-fuw4p0dXCqend_EIxi9lxd5zdfvKm1_pdvTZ4-062c/edit?usp=sharing

Moderator(s): Annamarie K.

Notetaker: Heather G. K.

Attendees: 

• Heather Greer Klein

• Juliet Hardesty

•  Chrissy Rissmeyer (she/her)

• Nora Zimmerman

• Margaret Kibi

• Cara Key

• Chris Day

• Sarah Beth Seymour

• Jeremy Friesen

Agenda:

• Welcome - Feel free to list yourself as a member on wiki (Samvera Metadata Interest Group )

• Still looking for a co-facilitator

• Roadmaps Alignment Group Update (Julie Hardesty)

  • Discussed interest from AWS in creating reference architectures – this will be taken up by a proposed WG. 

  • Developers Congress has work happening to clear out Hyrax issues from GitHub - some are metadata-related. Not closing, just commenting on the status. We will review these in the next meeting.

  • Nurax (nurax-dev and nurax-pg) sites are in the process of being moved to a new Samvera-based URL. DCE will no longer be maintaining these. 

• Wiki housekeeping - Other subgroups

  • URI Selection Working Group - Last met in 2018? Status not listed.

  • Samvera Applied Linked Data Interest Group - Last met in 2017? “Status unclear”

  • Descriptive Metadata Working Group -  Last met in 2016/2017?

  • Will talk about these another time.

• Demo updates with Superskunk and Project Surfliner (Margaret Kibi and Chrissy Rissmeyer)

  • Comet demo recorded

  • Related information:

    • https://samvera.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/samvera/pages/2072084481/Virtual+Posters+for+Connect+2022#Superskunk:-Building-a-sidecar-API-service-for-a-Hyrax-application

    • Samvera M3 Working Group  (Machine-readable Metadata Modeling Specification (M3) Working Group)

    • Houndstooth (https://github.com/samvera-labs/houndstooth)

• Follow-up on points from prior meeting:

  • OAI group - Annamarie, Nora, Amanda, and Meredith are interested in forming. Anna K. will set up a charter and group page.

  • Should we have a crossover meeting with Repository Managers IG regarding Bulkrax? Sarah & Cara mentioned working with Bulkrax for a migration. There is a bulkrax Interest Group, with a meeting today. Anna K. will look into a demo. Repository Managers IG is not meeting currently.

• GitHub issues:

  • https://github.com/samvera/hyrax/issues/3558 - Add more sort options to search results page. This was created and commented on in 2019. Labeled as an enhancement. It seems to relate to metadata as well.

    • Julie - It would be helpful to know that this is valuable to Ohio State via a comment on the issue. This can help this move into a future Development Congress or similar. Another attendee agreed that is was useful for their institution as well.

• Open Discussion

  • Ordering values in Samvera: RDF does not allow for ordering values a specific way in metadata. However, ordering is an important consideration for some fields, e.g. creator. Jeremy shared there is a Samvera Labs gem order_already (https://github.com/samvera-labs/order_already ) that allows for ordering values. However, he explained some nuances about how the gem is implemented, i.e. ordering for user display as opposed to the metadata itself.

  • Hyku for Repositories is working with SoftServ on metadata-related issues for Hyku. Amanda will keep this group updated. 

Next meeting: February 28, 2023, 2-3pm EST