2014 BHL Technical Meeting
2014 BHL Technical Meeting
St. Louis | Missouri Botanical Garden
2 - 3 April 2014
Objective
Outline BHL Technical Priorities; Identify what is needed to implement priorities and share with the BHL Strategic Planning Group; Review technical budget from grants and dues; Concrete plans on BHL platform at SI
To join the meeting by phone, please dial: 202-633-8930
Minutes & Action Items
BHL Tech Meeting 2014, Minutes and Action Items
Documents
Agenda
Day 0 (Tuesday, 1 April 2014): Travel/Social
Day 1 (Wednesday, 2 April 2014): Business | Missouri Botanical Garden
Meeting Plan and Outcomes: For this meeting, the goal is to lay out a number of problems, issues and opportunities within the technical development of BHL. Though there will be a number of instances where solutions can be developed on the spot, this meeting should focus on methodologies, timelines, and assignment of tasks rather than building out specific solutions. Outcomes of the meeting will include clear technical development priorities, assignment of tasks, and communications methods to assure timely dissemination of information to the development team.
- 0830 Coffee
- 0900 Meeting begins
- 0900 - 0915: Quick introductions and plan for the meeting (Martin)
- 0915 - 1015: Overview of BHL Members Meeting priorities (Martin). This section will be a discussion and quick triage of these topics. We'll return to them on Day 3 (Thursday) for action items.
- Full Text Searching: Status | Problems | Next Steps
- Status of metadata model for segments for ingest of existing article citations: Status | Problems | Next Steps
- Macaw development for article/segment ingest
- Tool for creating MARC.XML from Catalog or from scratch for Macaw to ingest.
- Corresponding development for BHL to incorporate article metadata from IA post-ingestion
- Collections analysis: Analyze the database (subjects, disciplines, geography); ability to create views of the database for targeted fundraising
- Book viewer enhancements (e.g. rotate page in the browser) | Status | Needs List | Next Steps
- Ingesting content from other Global Content Nodes including backup of BHL Australia metadata
- Portal: Modular, transportable code. Multilingual
- Portal / Admin improvements:
- Workflow Tools: What do we need? What do we sunset? Methodologies for proceeding
- Serials bidlist
- Monograph deduper
- Other?
- What are the basic infrastructure needs of BHL at this point in time
- 1015 - 1030: Break
- 1030 - 1100: CiteBank Phase-out and future of external content (William) | Issues | Concerns | Timeline | Action items
- BHL Authors cleanup and measures to keep'em clean
- Keeping contributed citations and PDF's and backing them up? (- Mar 27, 2014is this about user-generated PDFs?)
- Moving manually contributed content to CiteBank into BHL and the future of getting non-OAI harvestable content into BHL
- Are there technical resources available to work with AMNH to move their content from CB to BHL? What about other OAI providers that approach us with e-content?
- 1200 - 1330: Lunch :Sassafras's
- 1330 - 1400: Ancillary BHL web properties (Martin)
- Life and Literature Blog
- The BHL Public Wiki
- The closed CiteBank site
- Anything else out there?
- 1400 - 1430: Program Director, Gemini Feedback and Staff Topics (Martin)
- Rethink: DOIs (or EazyIDs) for articles. Evaluate DataCite
- API development -- are new web services required? are the current app’s adequate? How to collect input from API users?
- Planning for Gemini upgrade - what's a good time to do this considering other tech priorities? {SUGGESTION: JUNE 17}- Apr 16, 2014
- 1430 - 1515: Technical Development Impact of Current Projects (Martin) | This is a status discussion that will also outline development needs for projects
- Global Names: Any lingering tech impact?
- Art of Life: what are the development deliverables?
- Purposeful Gaming: what are the development deliverables?
- Digging into Data: what are the development deliverables?
- Is the Projects & Initiatives List still useful for tracking these kinds of projects within the larger BHL context?
- 1515 - 1530: Break
- 1530 - 1630: Portal Software Mirror at the Smithsonian
- Status of documentation of current site
- Staff time needed to work on project
- Timelines and deliverables
- Documentation of data model for wider public distribution
- 1630 - 1700: Review of day and plan for Day 2
- 1700 - Break
- Dinner TBD
Day 2 (Thursday, 3 April 2014): Business
- 0830 - 0900: Coffee
- 0900 - 1000: BHL Technical Communications (Martin)
- Internally with tech team
- with the TAG group
- with BHL Executive committee
- with BHL Program Director
- with BHL staff (What are the best method(s) and tools to use for communicating issues to Tech Team? Note: yearly increase in tech related Feedback tickets)
- 1000 - 1030: Technical BHL functions (William)
- Review document listing tasks, responsibilities and funding sources
- 1030 - 1045: Break
- 1045 - 1115: Discussion of website downtimes
- How to notify staff / users
- Alerts on website and social media
- How to diagnose "just how serious"
- 1115 - 1245: Follow up on Day 1 Discussions Part 1
- 1245 - 1415: Lunch as Sassafras's
- 1415 - 1700: Follow up on Day 1 Discussions Part 2
- 1700 - 1730: Recap of meeting, action items, assignments
- 1730 - Adjourn the meeting
- Dinner TBD
Day 3 (Friday, 4 April 2014): Travel
Logistics
The BHL Technical Meeting will be held April 1 - 4, 2014 in St. Louis, MO. April 1st and 4th will be travel days with two full-day meetings scheduled for April 2 and 3rd.
Dining Options
Walkable
Very short drive or longish walk
- SweetArt bakeshop, cafe,gallery all vegetarian menu and excellent pastries
- Local Harvest Locally sourced eclectic
- Antonino's Italian/Greek fusion, corner bar with some STL flair
- Royale Hipster tavern with good food and drinks. Nice patio
Short drive (5 - 10 minutes)
Slightly longer drive (10 - 15 minutes)
Lodging:
Visitors staying at the academic housing (Trelease House) need to go to the main entrance of the Garden at 4344 Shaw Blvd, where the Security Guard will give them the keys and the badges to get into the apartment and around the Garden (these will be under their names). Then, they can walk 0.2 miles (4 minutes) or ask if the car is available to take them to the Academic Housing.
Trelease House is at 1901 Maury Ave., St. Louis, MOS 63110. $90 USD a night. William Ulate, BHL Technical Director, has reserved a block of rooms for those traveling to St. Louis.
From the airport:
The easiest way to get to the Garden is to take a Cab outside the airport. This is between $40 and $50. The address is 4344 Shaw Blvd. St. Louis, MO, 63110 but all cab drivers know where the Botanical Garden is. Please see this page for more information:
http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/visit/the-garden/getting-here.aspx for details.
You can also take the MetroLink/train from the airport and then either a cab or a public bus (for the adventurous) from the Central West End metrolink stop. See
Schedules here!
Meeting Room:
CBEC Classroom 129, 4651 Shaw Blvd, St. Louis, MO
The Classroom is about 0.3 miles from the Trelease. Walking pictured route below in purple. The green route is directions from Trelease to Sasha's on Shaw for Dinner, April 1.
Click the image to link to directions on Google maps.
Meeting Notes
Confirmed Attendees / Travel Arrangements
Name of Attendee
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Institution
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Arriving
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Departing
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Accommodations
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Dinner on April 1?
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Martin Kalfatovic
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BHL / Smithsonian
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1 April 14
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4 April 4
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MBG Housing, Apt 2
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Yes
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Carolyn Sheffield
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BHL / Smithsonian
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1 Apr 14, 14:55
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4 Apr 14, 8:40
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MBG Housing, Apt 3
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Yes
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Joel Richard
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BHL / Smithsonian
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1 Apr 14
13:15
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4 Apr 14
15:25
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MBG Housing, Apt 1
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Yup
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John Mignault
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NYBG
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1 Apr 14
2:03
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4 Apr 14
10:55am
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MBG Housing, Apt 1
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Yes
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Keri Thompson
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Smithsonian
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1 Apr 14
13:15
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4 Apr 14
15:25
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MBG Housing, Apt 3
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Yep
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Joe De Veer
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Harvard/MCZ
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phone
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Kia Siang Hock
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National Library Board, Singapore
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1 Apr (1651hr)
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4 Apr (1023hr)
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MBG Housing, Apt 1
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Yes
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Trish Rose-Sandler
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BHL / MBG
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Mike Lichtenberg
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BHL / MBG
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Maybe
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William Ulate
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BHL / MBG
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Yes
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Chris Freeland
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WUSTL
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2 Apr
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2 Apr
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No :(
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Connie Rinaldo
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Harvard/MCZ
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---
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phone
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Bianca Crowley
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BHL / Smithsonian
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phone
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lipscombb Mar 27, 2014is this about user-generated PDFs?)
thompsonkeri Apr 16, 2014