2017.10.10 NDSR Minutes

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Agenda & minutes October 10, 2017
(Leora, Alicia away, Marissa away, Pam out; Trish late, Doug out) Richard, Carolyn, Ariadne, Katie, Joe, Connie

TDWG report (Katie, Carolyn) - Katie's slides - http://bit.ly/2ymbGGP
Carolyn: Ottawa, hosted by Canadian Museum Nature, Agriculture/Agrifood. About 200 people. BHL Symposium: Mariah, Katie, Martin, Tom Horrell, Dmitrias Mozzarin. Lots of great questions (Rod Page). Lots of interest in the symposium. Mike L. also presented at another symposium.

Katie attended the Data Carpentry workship at Canadian Museum of Nature. Intros to open refine, seql lite, R, data visualization; text mining--argo platform from mining biodiversity; neural net presentations success with herbarium sheets, citizen science, big data and collections (specimens); "Big data challenges" how to deal with big data issues, linked data strategies, tools, methods, questions. Katie wishes there was a hackathon day. Met lots of BHL and former BHL people.

Other meeting reports (Connie GBIF):

Best practices reports: I would love some help clarifying this but what I have in mind:

--What are the best practices in the digital library/database landscape (identify what you have reviewed and provide examples), how do these relate to moving BHL forward, and recommendations for BHL, use survey data, interviews and research

Webinars: I should probably purchase Adobe Connect? Marissa, did you have information about it?
Who is the audience for the webinars? NDSR mentors, residents, and BHL Secretariat only? BHL members and affiliates? Others?: "Us" but ultimately public. "Us" meaning mentors, residents, Secretariat, BHL members, affiliates and "power" users.

As a reminder: Outcomes and Deliverables for the grant
Outcomes:
a) Content analysis methodology that can be applied to other digital libraries;
b) Guidance to identify targets for digitization;
c) Transferable methodology for integration of crowdsourced enhancements using
OCR and metadata corrections supplied by past grant projects.16
d) Best practices documentation for verification, trust, and multi-tier review of crowdsourced transcriptions and metadata; Best practices document for each project.
e) Description and prioritization of 1) added value digital library tools and services to be built; and 2) existing tools in other services that can be leveraged to facilitate the
next generation digital library as tested in BHL
f) User needs assessment and prioritization of enhancements;
g) Guidance in data implementation and linking schema.


Deliverables :
1. A series of public reports on each of the 5 focus areas for use by the digital library
and biodiversity informatics community.
2. Report on transferability to other digital library or biodiversity data services (GBIF,
EOL, DPLA, Museums) of each discrete project. Mechanical Turk was tested as a
transcription tool in the IMLS P†urposeful†Gaming†and†BHL17†grant thus a summary and
analysis of the utility of Mechanical Turk in can be provided in this setting.
3. An overall review of the BHL NDSR distributed program with an analysis of the shared
resident case.
4. Each resident will work with their mentor to plan a webinar on a topic related to their
project with a local expert as presenter.
5. Each resident will present a final report with details of their work, lessons learned and
results to the mentors and other residents.
6. Each resident will present an aspect of their work at a professional conference.