Connection Info:

1-2pm Eastern
Zoom: https://iu.zoom.us/j/207369760

Notetaker: Juliet Hardesty

Attendees: Rebecca Pattillo, Erik Radio, Dawn Childress, Lynette Rayle, Gretchen Gueguen, Julie Hardesty

Agenda/Notes:

• Introductions
• Working Group goals
  • Understand scope and objectives
  • Understand deliverables and timeframe
• Regular meeting time (how often and when)
• Use cases for using controlled vocabularies behind metadata fields - starter discussion
• Sources for controlled vocabularies - approaches to gather these?

Notes:

• Working Group goals

• Understand scope and objectives

• Hyrax and Hyku

• Hyku CVs can only be set at topmost level so multi-tenet install has hard time setting CVs correctly per tenet

• Seems to be biggest problem for local CVs

  • Local department list either has to be set for particular work type or has to be pickable from a whole list of CVs on a single field

• Mix of metadata and work type and CVs - we should consider this and if we can provide helpful documentation or identify needed changes in Hyrax/Hyku

• Understand deliverables and timeframe

  • Through Samvera Connect 2020 seems reasonable, start off meeting biweekly to keep momentum

• Regular meeting time (how often and when)

• Every other Tuesday starting March 3, 3-4pm Eastern

• Use cases for using controlled vocabularies behind metadata fields - starter discussion

• spreadsheet

• Hyrax fields that have CVs

• How they’re sourced (locally or directly from hosted vocab)

• Geonames is pulled through Questioning Authority (QA) for based_near field (geographic subject)

• QA is part of Hyrax

• Also the case for Hyku since Hyku is based on Hyrax and has been for long enough to include QA

• Languages, Subjects (maybe topical subject) through QA but local (defined in yaml file) - there are choices to connect to hosted vocabs but local versions come out of the box

• Licenses, resource types, and right statements - drop-downs but served through QA locally

• Formats is a field that often uses CV (more fine-grained than Type)

• Document what is there, come up with use cases and fields (hyrax things), commonly used/available vocabs

• Other things like this

• Clearinghouse for library based tools

• Came up in DLF Assessment Group - tools section of their site might have it

• Gretchen to investigate

• Open Metadata Registry - good example but also not sure how it is maintained/seems kind of loose

• Sources for controlled vocabularies - approaches to gather these?

• Lots of vocabularies out there and things that gather lists of vocabs might have hard time staying updated (see Open Metadata Registry)

• Might be better to focus on tips for evaluating vocabs when they are found

• Create new Slack channel for this working group - DONE (#cv-decision-tree)