Applied Linked Data Call 2015-08-20

Attendees:

Linked Data Fragments Update:

• All tests for the pull request at https://github.com/ActiveTriples/linked-data-fragments/pull/18 have been mocked out using VCR.
  • Feedback: SubjectController shouldn't be the location of the caching backend (ie. Marmotta handler and such). That should likely be a separate global class that handles that.
  • Otherwise seems to be fine overall. Trey merged the pull request into master.
• Remaining TODOs:
  • Engifying (James)
  • Additional backend of Repository from rdf.rb (Steven)
  • Active Triples persistence method so that it will query Linked Data Fragments over something else. (Trey)
    • This hook to be in the Linked Data Fragments codebase.
  • Test it out against an actual repository to see if it works.
• Other Notes:
  • ulan uri's will cause trouble with marmotta. Same for all Getty vocabularies like AAT.
    • rdf.rb knows how to work with it but marmotta needs some manual configuration due to some weird location pointing in the response.
    • Stuff like id.loc.gov works without issue though.
  • Rails doesn't do content negotiate right. For example, rdf.rb might have have trouble talking to this. 
    • Why? Rails doesn't do with content headers that have weights associated to it. Those special characters in the header mess things up.
    • Fixed in Oregan Digital via the following pull request: https://github.com/OregonDigital/ControlledVocabularyManager/pull/122/files
  • Goal is still to have Linked Data Fragments in a "useable" state by Hydra Connect.
    • Trey would like to use it as part of his presentation on Linked Data labels rather than just using some custom marmotta code.

Linked Data Fragments Standup:

• Will be on Friday, August 28th at 11:00 AM PST / 2:00 PM EST on the same Google Hangouts link.

Next Official Meeting:

• Next meeting will be September 17th at 9:00 AM PST / Noon EST. (Skipping September 3rd due to almost everyone being out).