2017.08.29 NDSR Minutes

• Attended NEDCC Digital Directions workshop in Seattle last week and is writing a blog post about it
• Evaluating KUMU, a data visualization tool discussed at the workshop
• Working on presentation for St. Louis Tech meeting

• Graphed names for St. Louis Tech meeting
• Working with geo-parsing tools
• Working on outline for presentation for St. Louis Tech meeting

• Smithsonian IRB approved next two surveys and getting ready to go live next week
• Going through responses from individual surveys, which is intensive
• Working on outline for presentation for St. Louis Tech meeting

• Reviewed outline with Doug and Trish for presentation for St. Louis Tech meeting
• Reviewing crowd sourcing interviews and putting data into context
• Looking at crowd sourcing qualitative and quantitative data, Flickr as a contributor

• Digitized peer-review journal for BHL
• Overview of project may be written for member magazine The Naturalist

• Great articles on Ari and Alicia spreading word on BHL to the botanic garden communities
• With the assistance of a summer intern, 8-10 historic journals were imaged for BHL collections. We are now in process of cropping and assigning metadata.

• Analyzing Gemini wish list items and looking for patterns that correlate with survey data and/or reoccurring categories
• Gathering more info for Tech meeting

• Met with Ari and Doug and reviewed outline for presentation and checked in on Coder Girl course
• Looking at best use of remaining travel funds for Ari

• Each Resident has one hour to present her project. The hour will be a 30- 40 minute presentation and 20 minutes of discussion
• The last slide of each presentation should be a summary of recommendations or priorities for BHL