2017.06.20 NDSR Minutes

1866.890.3820 passcode 86126755#
On call: Connie, Alicia, Marissa, Joe, Katie, Doug, Ari, Pam

Agenda

Alicia: 1. stat analysis mark-recapture; searching Artemesia in OCLC and Google scholar and other key words.1950s-1980. Also some "not" (like mythology). Not using the portal search but using data exports. Estimate how much is missing. Artemesia is interesting because in east and west hemisphere.
https://ndsrbhl.wordpress.com/2017/06/14/digital-data-in-biodiversity-research/
2. Looking at Taxonomic representation: pulled out all unique names (3 million unique names pulled from corpus); filter through open tree of life; API and also reconciliation service through Open Refine and then connecting to API. Not sure which is easier or more representative.
3. Geographic representation. Tried to use ARGO from Mining Biodiversity, contacted them and checked workflows but their locations are not necessarily place names ("near the river") . It is a textmining workbench but it is not easy. Geoparser.io will be tested too but can only do a few requests per month with free version. Also Geoparse pi but not much documentation.
4. Temporal representation: histograph
5. Topical representation: talking with JSTOR labs. Waiting to hear from Secretariat. Find links on staff call/collections call. Random sample of 10,000 results and JSTOR pulled out topics.
Don't share any of these links beyond BHL!
https://jstor-labs.github.io/corpora/?corpus=bhl,jstor
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EIrSTgPM_RukHXp82KEL9LWrAx6Ft5jDZcSr8jIVc00/edit#gid=196698376
https://labs.jstor.org/topicgraph/

Also got code to Mike from the McGill researcher (Info Science) who has done some work with LC call numbers

Katie: NDSR poster at ALA
Marissa: working on NHM journal and Altmetrics; met with some paleontologists who are digitizing specimens and want to add literature; epanda
Pam: Updating surveys using suggestions and filling out IRB form.
Ari: Announced the call for finding people from science gossip to interview. AMNH interviews; also Symbiota platform to find good use cases.