Metadata Call 2024-03-26

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

Call-In Info: Join our Cloud HD Video Meeting

Community Notes: Samvera Metadata Interest Group Meeting: 2024 Rolling Minutes

Moderator(s): Annamarie

Notetaker: Emma

Attendees: 

• @Annamarie Klose , Ohio State University

• Meredith Hale, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

• @Emma Beck , University of Louisville

• @Cara Key , Oregon State University

• @Juliet Hardesty , Indiana University

• @Anna Goslen , UNC-Chapel Hill

• @Christine Peterson , Amigos Library Services

Agenda: 

• Lingering thoughts from the roundtable

  • Julie: Hyrax Maintenance Working Group discussing using a crawler, browser stack

• Update on the roadmaps group - haven’t met for a bit

• COUNTER compliant stats - question from Christine on slack (https://samvera.slack.com/archives/C0X9STKSP/p1707951845799949 ) 

  • Pitt is having that development done in Hyku

  • Couple of libraries have asked about that

  • https://cop5.projectcounter.org/en/5.1/index.html  

  • Standard for gathering statistics, not quite the same detail as a report generator 

  • Google analytics will be the next push to get working again

• Multi-tenant work types - Rachel’s question on slack (https://samvera.slack.com/archives/C0X9STKSP/p1707237376440269 ) 

  • Hyku based question

  • If run on the same server, all the tenants currently need to have the same work-types

  • Some development

• Location field and geo names - Anna Goslen’s question on slack (https://samvera.slack.com/archives/C0X9STKSP/p1706219727688909 ) 

  • https://github.com/cu-library/cuirator/blob/8d35708bc323664e0172fd30df20e8df25126438/config/initializers/qa.rb#L4

  • Ways to help users select the right term and disambiguate 

  • One possibility, after a user selects the term having a link follow up so users can identify

  • Unsure of if this a Geo names or a Hyrax issue

  • QA is in development for Hyku via U.Tennessee

• Bulkrax and custom thumbnails - Christine

  • Institution importing into DPLA and they want a link in a field

  • OSU has added it to a line to their OAI feed

  • Looking to do metadata only fields and how to have a unique thumbnail

  • Christine is going to write it up and give some use cases so we can see it better

  • PALS might have dealt with it before

• Open discussion

  • Samvera virtual connect proposal deadline has been extended to April 1 

    • https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdCSzObS-b37Ukv5jUTm7haU1LEB8Fnxsfzw5T1TSHVoTZd5Q/viewform

Next meeting: April 23rd 2-3 PM EST