Samvera Tech Call 2021-08-11


Meeting Logistics:

Agenda

(meeting notes below)

  • Samvera Community Vocabulary Manager - new Samvera git repo? (Julie Hardesty)
  • <add your agenda item here (your name)>

Moderator: James Griffin (Princeton University Library)

Notetaker: James Griffin (Princeton University Library)

Attendees:



Meeting Process

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  1. Standing pre-agenda items (moderator)
    1. Welcome

      • "Welcome everyone, please add your name to the Attendees list.  If you are unable to do so, please let us know, and someone will add you. To any newcomers, Welcome, and please feel free to ask questions. Likewise for all attendees. We strive for an open and accessible conversation around Samvera technology."

    2. Call for new agenda items
  2. Follow Agenda from above (facilitated by moderator) and record notes in Notes section below (note taker)
  3. Standing post-agenda items (moderator)
    1. call for next moderator and note taker (moderator)
      1. Moderator:
      2. Notetaker:
    2. Samvera help follow-up (moderator)
    3. Pull request review (moderator)
  4. Post-meeting action (note taker)
    1. After call, this week's notetaker should create the agenda for the next call:
      1. Open template agenda titled "Samvera Tech Call 2021-xx-xx"
      2. Click on ... in the top right corner, and select copy.
      3. Popup will open for location. It should contain:
        1. Space: Samvera
        2. Parent page: 2021
      4. Select copy. New page should be created.
      5. Modify the title to remove "copy of", update it with the next date, add moderator, notetaker, and any carry-over agenda info. Click Publish. 



Notes

  • Community Vocabulary Manager (Julie)
    • Julie and Ryan Wick are drafting a functional requirements document
    • Much of this comes from the metadata interest group
      • Most immediate need: set of Hyrax-specific predicates need to be resolvable from real URIs
      • Currently the URIs resolve to an invalid namespace
      • There are three scripts which work directly with these
        • These are going to continue to be hosted by the fake namespace
        • Perhaps approaching the updates for these scripts could be an initial step?
    • PCDM and fcrepo ontologies
      • These are human-readable, but machine-readable should be preferred
    • Contemplating creating a GitHub repository
      • If GitHub Pages is used, leveraging this might be possible
      • Perhaps vocabulary.samvera.org could be reserved by Heather for the Samvera Community
      • If this is the case, perhaps the repository should be created within the samvera-labs Organization
      • Property proposals
        • Pull requests for individual properties is preferred for this approach
        • Otherwise, coordinating this with multiple properties could make reviewing difficult
        • Merging pull requests should the trigger a rebuilding and republishing of the site
    • Multiple Repositories for Samvera URIs
      • hydra-works (and perhaps others) have hard-coded URIs
        • These must be replaced
    • Should this just be deployed to the samvera GitHub Organization?
      • Perhaps still test this from within the samvera-labs Organization?
    • Spar Ontologies as a reference
    • Julie and Ryan are going to test this with personal GitHub accounts before announcing to the community any updates
    • Standards Compliance
      • Descriptive metadata does not relate to this directly, as many of the properties encode more technical metadata
    • Later discussion: some mechanism for updating local URIs for system predicates
      • Also, use cases for hosting local vocabularies
    • James was exploring https://github.com/LDflex/LDflex, and will investigate whether or not there are any continuous integration and linked-data specific linting strategies from projects affiliated with https://github.com/RubenVerborgh


Next Scheduled Meeting

  • Moderator: Julie
  • Notetaker: James


Meeting adjourned at 09:30 PDT/12:30 EDT