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Feb 17 2015

Tech meeting 2/17/15
Mike, Trish, William, Bianca
BHL general
EC meeting in NY last week. More interaction with TAG, Joel, Joe, Susan Lynch, Keri. Topics: new servers, managing OCR
EOL meeting – MOBOT not paying fee and asked to resign
Mike’s 25% BHL time after April will be spent on setting up copy of BHL portal at SIL
BHL discovery tools working group will work on getting BHL content to discovery tools e.g. aggregators likeProquest
Restarting DOI assignments – any updates? No, on hold for now
Full text searching- end of April will have Index of content running with quick UI in beta to query it as an additional tab in advanced search. We will have various groups reviewing the UI changes. Will begin with TAG
Workshop in Brazil in April– Keri will attend. Global meeting in May – no technical component, William will not attend
Members meeting in March, William will be presenting on technical initiatives and projects

Art of Life
Waiting on MBG to writing a press release about the Flickr images.
ConSciCom/Zooniverse –
Beta is tomorrow - Have they looked at latest site?
Has Mike uploaded more images?
What BHL users or staff should we ask to test beta?
Send out message to BHL staff asking for folks from history of science societies. MBL WHOI has contacts, Art of Life Classifiers, Rare book librarians. Trish put together the request and send to Bianca
BHL images in Flickr - links to page in IA off by one page. Joel will investigate but thinks its related to Kalev’s script. He wants to back burner it.
Joel confirmed Server was down and algorithm exports were light.

Purposeful Gaming
Status with Desmond
Polygons – can Tiltfactor support or are they only expecting rectangles?
Tesseract output – another 200 nearly done.3 had bad image format messages.
Text to image mapping – Mike will start processing these for game inputs.

Mining Biodiversity
Annotations – Trish and William annotating now.
IMLS interim report due Jan 31st– William got financial from Dianne and is working on narrative
Monthly meeting moved to 12noon this Friday.