MODS and RDF Call 2016-04-18

Time: 9am PDT / Noon EDT

Call-In Info: 712-775-7035 (Access Code: 960009)

Homework Reminder: 

• Subject Individual Mappings:  Subject Individual Institution Usage And RDF Conversion

Moderator: Steven Anderson (Boston Public Library)

Primary Notetaker: TBA (etherpad link: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/RDF-MODS-20160418)

Attendees:

• @sanderson (BPL)

Agenda:

1. Introductions
   
   

2. Conversion Code Update / Notes Testing 

   1. Being built on top of Curation Concerns now.

      1. How much should default metadata like https://github.com/projecthydra-labs/curation_concerns/blob/master/app/models/concerns/curation_concerns/basic_metadata.rb affect our mappings?

         1. At the very least, it seems to have defined required properties of: https://github.com/projecthydra-labs/curation_concerns/blob/master/app/models/concerns/curation_concerns/required_metadata.rb

3. Subject Element Mappings

   1. Complex Subject Headings?

      1. FAST (http://fast.oclc.org/searchfast/) vs LCSH?

         1. opinion from Chemical Heritage Foundation.

   2. Geo Concerns and other model integration? https://github.com/projecthydra-labs/geo_concerns

   3. Subject Element List...

      1. Topic

         1. String Literals

         2. External URIs

         3. Local URIs

      2. Geographic

         1. Coords

         2. Name

         3. Scale

         4. Projection

      3. Names

      4. Titles

   4. Additional Institution Mapping Thoughts

4. Assignments for next time:

5. Next meeting: Monday, May 2nd, 9:00 AM PST (12:00 PM EST)