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NDSR

2017.02.28 NDSR Minutes

Connie, Katie, Marissa, Doug, Alicia, Leora, Carolyn, Trish, Ari, Pam, Richard

Praise for the blog! (general applause all around): Super wonderful, great! Not enough accolades available.

Updates/plans:
NDSR symposium: Keeping lists of communication tools--primarily googledocs and slack; Basecamp not really useful and expensive. Think about things you might like to have. Better syncing amongst available tools is important. Add some historical info. Ask American Archive and other cohorts.
DPLA fest: panel April 21 10am; Trish will set up a call and a googledoc. Serious planning starts tomorrow.
Code4Lib: Marissa just workshops: Fails for lib and dig projects toolkit; Katie RDF data modelling and Natural Language processing, whole conference; Summaries for blog after. (Carolyn: Would be interesting to consider how NLP etc might be useful as BHL implements full text search, possible impact on finding taxonomic name strings and if there's any usefulness tied to the new taxonomic backbone being developed by GBIF and others, and perhaps also any usefulness in finding geographic names in the OCR text/transcriptions.)
Other abstracts submitted: Residents put in a proposal for ALA:
TDWG: submitting a symposium proposal

How are we feeling about progress?: Chicago: meeting regularly, Corvid database; LA:Marissa attended Expanding Access workshop. localized movement. Coordinating with Susan Lynch about generating metadata for articles; Richard concerned about Rod Page because of accuracy issues; MOBOT: regular meetings 1 meeting per week with Trish, 1 with Doug, group once a month. Ari--evaluating digital libraries reading ; in person meeting with taxonomists and Skype meetings with historians of science; Smithsonian Pam and Carolyn: meetings with EOL, GBIF, ITIS; user feedback methods research; Carolyn will be arranging meeting with Rod Page for Pam. Rod is a great source for feedback (website improvement for instance).

What is missing for each resident?
Alicia missing a laptop. More clarity on final report. Pam's in format of SI tech review document? Carolyn can send a blank one. Should all 5 projects be in that template? Are these reports functional requirements or high level recommendations. Connie will gather some best practices. All require high level recommendations; how far beyond that is a different question. Will figure out best approach based on completed documents and templates. Residents will have weekly talk format to describe work they are doing--more detail and thorough. Will continue biweekly. The blog really helps with keeping us all updated on the blog.

Fall Tech meeting: Sept 11-14. Send outline by Sept 5 (ahead of meeting); Presentations at Tech meeting.
TDWG: submitting a symposium proposal

How are we feeling about progress?: Chicago: meeting regularly, Corvid database; LA:Marissa attended Expanding Access workshop. localized movement. Coordinating with Susan Lynch about generating metadata for articles; Richard concerned about Rod Page because of accuracy issues; MOBOT: regular meetings 1 meeting per week with Trish, 1 with Doug, group once a month. Ari--evaluating digital libraries reading ; in person meeting with taxonomists and Skype meetings with historians of science; Smithsonian Pam and Carolyn: meetings with EOL, GBIF, ITIS; user feedback methods research; Carolyn will be arranging meeting with Rod Page for Pam. Rod is a great source for feedback (website improvement for instance).

What is missing for each resident?
Alicia missing a laptop. More clarity on final report. Pam's in format of SI tech review document? Carolyn can send a blank one. Should all 5 projects be in that template? Are these reports functional requirements or high level recommendations. Connie will gather some best practices. All require high level recommendations; how far beyond that is a different question. Will figure out best approach based on completed documents and templates. Residents will have weekly talk format to describe work they are doing--more detail and thorough. Will continue biweekly. The blog really helps with keeping us all updated on the blog.

Fall Tech meeting: Sept 11-14. Send outline by Sept 5 (ahead of meeting); Presentations at Tech meeting.

Timeline/due dates for the final reports: ALA poster is the 6 month report; Sept 4 Outline of recommendations; Draft ready by Dec 1.
Alicia has amazing spreadsheet of tasks in google folder.

And BHL format for the final reports? See above. Working on it.

Other.: Katie is interested in documentation on pulling scientific names and putting them in the book viewer. Check wiki documentation. Carolyn can check with Bianca. Mike Lichtenberg might be able to help. Global Names project notes might be helpful.