Apr 7 2014

4/7/14 Tech Review meeting
Present: Mike, Trish, William

Art of Life – sent Kyle email to update on algorithms
With one year extension Looking into IMA budget and money spent.

Purposeful Gaming –
Wed monthly meeting this week. Status of setting up transcription tools? FromThePage – Mike W. has it setup on Apache but not sure if its working.
Subcontract agreement – Harvard is complete!
Mike will look into management of OCR and transcription versions. Options – mediawiki or Drupal?

Tech meeting summary –
Setting up portal code over at SI – not clear how much time will this take of Mike?
Tracking hrs on projects – William will create an Google spreadsheet we can all type our hrs into
Core BHL tasks – good to see the details of what tech team does. Would be good to have this level of detail for all full time BHL staff.
Author information cleanup – SIL pays to have author name normalized and linked to VIAF every 3 yrs. They could include BHL data in what they get cleaned up. No timeline set for this.
Fund/Trust being setup in Europe to further develop BHL functionality
BHL members identified Funds available for this year and next for Mike and William as long as EC approves. William will be paid a combination of Mining Biodiversity and BHL through 2015. Mike will be paid a combination of Art of Life, Purposeful Gaming, Mining Biodiversity and BHL through 2015. Trish and William talk to Chuck about a purchase order for Mike to send to SIL.

Notes from BHL meeting with action items? Will Carolyn be sending those out this week? She will send reminders on Action Items April 15th


Author display in BHL – feedback/comments discussion. We will setup a meeting with the author display subcommittee since their latest email questions indicated a lot of confusion.

OAI sets – can BHL filter the linked out data from our OAI sets? (EBSCO request) This is something we probably need to do for those folks who we harvest as well. (E.g. Bianca indicated that RJB is harvesting SCIELO content and their content could potentially be duplicated in BHL)
Trish will followup with EBSCO to find out which sets they are harvesting? Items and Segments or Titles?
If we created 2 new sets for Items (Internal) and Segments (Internal) would that serve their needs?
We are considering creating 5-6 new sets and dropping the ones we have now. This might create problems with folks who have been harvesting since we added external content but we’ve only been doing it for last 2 months so probably not a significant impact. WE may not want to create the separate Title sets since titles can refer to more than one item which then could be a mix of internal and external content.
Title (Internal) Title (External)
Item (Internal) Item (External)
Part (Internal) Part (External)