Metadata Call 2017-05-30

Owned by Bill Branan
Last updated: Jun 22, 2017 by Juliet Hardesty
2 min read

Time: 3:00pm-4:00pm Eastern

Call-In Info: +1 (641) 715 3660, access code 651025 

Moderator:  ruth.k.tillman and  Juliet Hardesty

Notetaker: John Huck - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lQZKYIf0WlHih6_KuvdEArWZV95V8jVdpae7JHjBQkk/edit?usp=sharing

  • Attendees

    • Julie Hardesty (Indiana University)

    • John Huck (University of Alberta)

    • Alex May, Adrienne Pruitt, Margaret Peachy (Tufts University)

    • Audrey Lorberfeld (The New York Academy of Medicine)

    • Emily Stenberg (Washington University in St. Louis)

    • Jen Young (Northwestern University)

    • Johanna Radding (Amherst College)

    • Kate Gerrity (Amherst College)

    • Andy Weidner (University of Houston)

  • Subgroup Reports
    • MODS and RDF Descriptive Metadata Subgroup
      • Still meeting bi-weekly, finalizing collaboration documents, aiming to wrap up this summer
    • URI Selection Working Group

      • No one from the group on this call, no further information available now.

      • Julie will touch base with Ryan from the group for an update.

  • Issues/Questions
  • Topics
    • Hydra → Samvera

      • News on the correct pronunciation still forthcoming

      • Reminder that high level pages are being updated in June. IGs/WGs will be responsible for updating lower pages. Julie proposes waiting until after the high level pages are updated to look at the metadata pages.

      • Hydra rights (vocabulary documentation) is one to look at.

      • We can review the state of our pages on the next call.

    • Samvera Models demo update
      • Still working through getting the gem working in the stable version of Hyrax
    • Samvera Metadata Documentation Project
      • John mentions a new Geo predicates WG from the Geospatial IG that will make use of the documentation here. CFP is forthcoming soon.
  • Informing from other IG/WG

    • Applied Linked Data

      • still active

    • PCDM

      • no information about the current work of this group

    • UX

      • still active, activities unknown

    • Preservation/Archivists

      • Archivists group met in April: likely focused on arclight

      • Preservation group may not have met since Hydra Connect

    • Architecture

    • Geospatial/GIS

      • A new geo predicates WG will be announced soon. The GIS modelling WG has wrapped up as of May 30th. The work of that group is currently embodied in geoworks, which Princeton is actively using and is a newer version of the original geoconcerns gem.

    • Plugins

    • Samvera Virtual Connect

    • Documentation Working Group

      • Is active; would be good to keep up to date with

  • Demos
    • Ruth did a JSON-LD demo (batch remediation), and made a recording.
    • ND JSON-LD and Batch Remediation Demo - includes Box link to MP4 recording. Will include links to some documentation, etc., later on. Sorry for the delay.
  • Next meeting: Tuesday, June 27th, 3-4 PM EDT