2008-01-17_BHL-IA

BHL/Internet Archive Mini Technical Meeting

January 17, 2008

San Francisco

1. Technical Topics
   1. Status update on getting new fields added to Biblio (WonderFetch)
2. Metadata/Metamanger Topics
   1. More robust access to Metamanager
   2. Access to editing of bibliographic metadata
   3. Approval/QA process & turnaround
      1. Finding materials online that have not made it through QA - what to do with those?
3. Data Topics
   1. Status of the PDF errors with Adobe 7 and 8
   2. Status of DejaVu errors
      • missing pages on http://www.archive.org/details/cambridgenatural05harm
   3. More details on the new language specific OCR (are the new OCR files overwriting the old ones are an adjunct?)
      • Is there a process to systematically reOCR foreign language materials?
4. Scanning Center Topics
   1. Brewster take on the LC Regional Scanning Center (reference the LC task order and some of the specs outlined in that related to document structure
   2. Clarification of some IA staffing issues
5. Completed
   1. Brewster's view on what the Penn State process will deliver
   2. Are any IA materials being submitted for processing to the code that IA is running locally?