Metadata Call 2022-08-23

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

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Community Notes: Samvera Metadata Interest Group Meeting: 2022-08-23

Moderator(s): Anna G.

Notetaker: Nora Z.

Attendees: 

• Amanda Hurford (PALNI/Hyku for Consortia)

• Anna Goslen (UNC Chapel Hill)

• Margaret Kibi (UCSB)

• Nora Zimmerman (Lafayette College)

• Julie Hardesty (Indiana University)

• Meredith Hale

Agenda:

• Roadmaps Alignment Group Update (Heather, Julie)

  • Met briefly earlier this week, next meeting is in mid-late September, immediately following the Hyrax Valkyrization effort sprint 

  • Had an initial meeting following the July break, on  the docket:

    • More organization/re-organization of github teams 

      • mostly related to the CLA discussion

      • metadataists team was historically a useful way for SMIG to weigh in on issues and questions in the codebase

    • Changes to the core components maintenance working group

  • Coordination of development communication, in order to improve awareness/management of dependencies 

    • Controlled vocabularies (e.g. geonames)

• Issues/Questions

  • OAI support in Hyrax - OAI Support in Hyrax - still in progress gathering info

• Discussion Topics

  • Open call for one more SMIG co-facilitator

    • To begin following Samvera Connect in October

  • Connect 2022 Call for Proposals

    • Hyku for Consortia project update proposal

    • Julie proposed a dockerized Hyrax workshop

    • Heather proposed a “Samvera tech for non-devs” workshop

  • Do folks still want to have an accessibility metadata roundtable? 

    • First roundtable on DEI metadata was in January: Roundtable Discussion on Metadata for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion 2022-01-25  

    • Widen the scope of the roundtable to be platform neutral

  • PALNI/Hyku for Consortia user study

    • Interviewed librarians/staff at consortial members

    • How to set priorities in a resource-constrained environment?

      • Results included several metadata topics

      • Users tend to want a single worktype, that can be flexibly customized (e.g. for display, search/indexing)

      • Amanda would like to share these results with SMIG for discussion and to gather feedback; also to share with the Bulkrax interest group

    • Idea of end users, “the public” as stakeholders

Next meeting: September 27