November 8, 2017

Time/Place

This meeting is a hybrid teleconference and IRC chat. Anyone is welcome to join. Here is the info:

• Time: 1:00pm Eastern Daylight Time US (UTC-4)
• Dial-in Number: (641) 715-3570
  • Participant Code: 304589#
  • International numbers: Conference Call Information
  • Web Access: https://www.freeconferencecallhd.com/wp-content/themes/responsive/flashphone/flash-phone.php
• IRC:
  • Join the #islandora chat room via Freenode Web IRC (enter a unique nick)
  • Or point your IRC client to #islandora on irc.freenode.net

Attendees

Agenda

1. Metadata Interest Group: We'd like your collaboration with how we can represent metadata in RDF, and yet still display and facet on useful parameters. For instance, if I have a digitized copy of Anne of Green Gables then I want to use Linked Data to say dcterms:creator http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81018346. Or maybe it's a local history and the author doesn't have a LOC uri, so I made an "authority" for them myself and state that dcterms:creator <myurl.org/people/1023>. I (as the user and metadata manager) should not need to enter any more than this URI into the book's metadata. Logically, that single URI connects the information the system knows about the author (the spelling of their name, their dates, etc) with the book. But now I want to display the author on the book's landing, or facet, or search by name. Unless the string "Montgomery, Lucy Maud" is indexed somewhere with the book, we're going to be in some Special User Hell of navigating a linked data graph (see: British Museum) instead of a repository with human-readable metadata. What is our plan? Is there a microservice that can solve this?

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