We’re not making a working group, “we’re working in a group”; not formalizing until we have interactions locked in

Agenda

• Meet and Greet (~5 mins)
  • Jacky: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/the-staff-engineers/9781098118723/
  • Emelia: Hacking Capitalism, HTTP pocket reference, The Revolution Will Not Be Funded
  • Tynan: Book 6 of the Dungeon Crawler series
  • Adam: The Mountain in the Sea, https://hardcover.app/books/the-nerd-reich
  • Ronen: The Long Haul
• Review past notes from email thread re: lexicon shapes (~10 mins)
• Discuss what folks are considering for their own implementation (~10 mins)
• Discuss next meeting + cadence (~2 mins)

Notes

• Emelia: keep things separate as lexicons
  • Books vs music vs science articles
  • Content resolution (given a title, how do I find a title?)
  • What is a “book”?
  • How do we claim a book (or work)?
  • Potentially one print self-publishing entity
  • How to find a means of purchasing the work?
  • Verification of the claimant of the book
  • Users would have a strongRef to the “original book”
• Adam: some books are being re-used (old book + new books)
  • Books can have multiple ASINs
• Tynan:
  • lots of databases, potential of a collaborative database
  • accuracy isn’t guaranteed but AT can help with this
  • Trezy gave a talk about allowing game developers can claim their games, a small backfill from Steam: https://atmosphereconf.org/event/xXWE9Dv
  • Publish books as AT records, not just as ISBNs
  • Lots of book apps out there in the world
  • Book logging scene is aware of platform dynamics
    • Dozens of compeitors
    • None of them have interoperability
    • Fable we lost (Scribd)
    • Forming a “data union” (global books index)
    • Hardcover can be an example of this
• Emelia: scope could be narrowed?
  • Standard way to publish what’s been reading and what’s owned
  • Opting for copies of data versus doing a reference
    • StrongRef + copy of the book immediate data (author, title, identifiers)
• Ronen:
  • yay to data union + network effects
  • constellation but for books
    • something to simplify the discovery of books
• Adam:
  • would the entity be living somewhere?
  • Emelia: it can be shared infrastructure
• Emelia: it can be paid or not (might be remembering that did the such from the e-mail thread)
• Ronen:
  • On APIs, this is something that can explode with AI
• Tynan:
  • The protocol reduces the burden of having to be hit directly
  • Diversity is possible
• Emelia:
  • You don’t want to import all of the data at once, you want to do the lazy loading of the book records
• Tynan: We should talk to Trezy re: game data backfill.

Fill in here with Ronen’s AI notes at about 1:30 PM ET