June 22 2015

6/22/15 Tech meeting
Mike, Trish, Bianca, Martin

BHL Search
Bianca and Mike talked about search issues on Friday. 2 different search functionalities employed. Bib md on SQL server full text. Science names is not run on that server. Noise words that are being ignored (e.g. single character words) are causing some issues. Martin has list of stop words used in ILS he can share with Mike.

DOIs for articles
We have harvested DOIs but not displaying them yet for articles. Mike added column about those with DOIs according to Rod Page’s database. Bianca will find and send more examples to Mike

Character encoding issues between BHL and IA
Bianca noticed Encoding between ILS and IA is off. E.g.
o and e is smooshed together
Problem is Character encoding translation between systems
IA has fixed it on their end through their upload process and fixed the individual records

Other - BHL members call happened during BHL staff call last week – only 6 people attended.
Bianca out Monday June 29th
Mike out July 13th & 14th and 27th-31st
Trish out June 29th – July 10th
(Although will be checking email and may work from home 1-2 days during that time)

Mining Biodiversity –
Trish attended Meeting Friday with all project team. Social media team is talking with TAG this afternoon about recommendations. Annotation group is looking for BHL volunteers to help with validating entity relationships identified by algorithms. ( Trish contacted 4 people that Grace suggested: Rod Page, Torsken Dikow, Siobhan Leachman, Quentin Groom. With William’s absence she’s been taking notes at monthly meetings and sharing with him to keep him up to date.


Art of Life
Trish Working on final report for NEH

Purposeful Gaming
Games went live June 9th. Waiting to get stats from TIltfactor on how many folks are playing.
Tiltfactor still working on bug of presenting same word to a user more than once.
Trying to get promotion through larger media channels – Harvard is working on.