2017.08.01 NDSR Minutes

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AGENDA
Alicia, Joe, Carolyn, Trish, Ari, Connie, Marissa, Doug

1. Webinar update: Marissa put a few options into a spreadsheet
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YV148-jGsC-z6G7irabtWZCtfHt0YD9BJcRIAsW1xU8/edit?usp=sharing
Harvard has access to Googlehangouts (anyone), Skype for Business and WebEx, only with a Harvard Login.

2. Tech meeting in September--planning:
Guidance on September meeting (individual) presentations:

• How long should they be? 30-45 minutes
• Begin with an overview of the original grant
• Presentation
  • draft to individual mentors: 2 weeks ahead
  • reviewed draft to all
• What type of things would Mentors and others like to see beforehand, and how long before the meeting?
• some kind of paper handout or powerpoint/outline, not necessarily visual, will be helpful so we can follow up.
• 15 minutes at the end of each presentation for questions
• Residents will organize an appropriate order that makes sense
• Afternoon will be devoted to gathering the ideas for the presentation for Day 2. Group distillation.
• Connie will take notes but needs copies of the presentations to do so
• Take out? May be some restaurants within 15 minutes.

Day 1 is all about us. Individual presentations, group discussions....how do we want to structure this? End with a summary of priorities and opportunities for each project. Do we want to have a networking event? Doug and Trish can you suggest something?

Day 2 (NDSR and Tech team) will begin with an introduction to the tech vision for BHL and move to a joint NDSR presentation (about an hour), next a presentation by the Egypt team on their proposal to manage BHL tech. There will be time for discussion and questions for the developers about what is possible. We will end the day with a deep dive into the top 4 priorities, including platform development and how to migrate to serving images without IA (China problem.....)
Group presentation or Connie distill? Brief overview by Connie with distillation of discussion, outline of recommendations and residents pull info from the day before.

Day 3: Primarily tech team but NDSR might like to observe. (I think this was the plan but will have to verify).

Current agenda:
TechMeeting_Sept2017

3. Resident updates:

Katie: Some updates from me for the group:
1. Ari’s and my proposal for DLF got accepted, but as a lightning talk. Pam and Marissa have been accepted for a full talk! I will skip DLF.
2. I have an outline for the final paper that I’ve started writing from.
3. I’m meeting with Ben Brumfield – the developer of FromThePage – who is enthusiastic about putting together a scalable transcription platform for BHL that will be more optimized for natural history collections than the current version.
4. I’m also writing a proposal for adding BHL authors and CreatorIDs to Wikidata. The test set seems to be working, and the Wikidata community is interested in moving forward. BHL can use Wikidata to disambiguate author name strings by adding Wikidata IDs to the BHL database.

Pam: Marissa and Pam had a proposal accepted for a presentation at DLF; 550 responses; still live to Aug 4; Carolyn and Pam have a presentation of early results for TDWG BHL symposium

Ari: Attended and did a presentation at visualizing biodiversity event at MOBOT for educators; made some connections for follow up. Lepidoptera citizen sci app for automated ID; bhl literature and global biodiversity commons and illustrations; class going well Launch code coder girl UX track

Alicia: cleaning and pre-processing lots of data; 3.7 mill names and counts for each time they are used; unique names too; connecting names into wikispecies is possible through GNA pool; she has done some tests and about half are connected to wikispecies and half not. Cleaning other datasets with biblio stat analysis before comparison

Marissa: done with museum pub project; Europeana has a list of software tools to comb

ACTION: Residents will share abstracts for presentations.