March 9 2015

Tech meeting 3/9/15
Mike, Trish, William, Bianca
BHL general
William has been reviewing the List of BHL Projects & Initiatives to include all our activities for 2015. Trish needs to review and make sure all her activities are reflected there.
Mike is working on title notes – need to add to export and admin site
GBIF – looking into experiments with GBIF and BHL data with country or group that would give a lot of results and references to specimins
BHL discovery services group (aggregators of BHL bibliographic metadata) – Adam, Martin, Bianca, Suzanne, William. EBSCO, Serials Solutions, OCLC. Cleaning up some BHL metadata they have already aggregated. Page in wiki on their charge

Art of Life
Haven’t heard from Joel on remaining time to upload other IA content
Science Gossip released! Tracking use on dashboard. Great response so far -3k users and 120k classifications so far. Geoff and Trish spending good amt of time responding to users questions about how to treat certain images, functionality (e.g. why do they have to keep saying no to talk when there is no illustration).
Working on presentation for VRA conference for Friday. Topic is our use of Flickr and how we get data out.
Have to go image by image in Flickr to query the API. Could use multiple API keys to get around Flickr’s API limits
Ran query on 6 months ago on BHL flickr stream. Should take about a day. 3600/hr API request.

Purposeful Gaming
Desmond’s architecture for TILT – do we have concerns? No db that sits underneath his tool so needs somewhere to push is data. Shouldn’t impact efficiency. It will be all served locally. Mike sent Desmond data last week. Sample of data in mongoDB – one books worth of transcriptions with links to images. Looking into a wire transfer or bank draft for payment.
Catalogs in transcription tools – Joe DeVeer hasn’t said where he’s at with this. Trish followup
Monthly meeting this week
Tiltfactor - I haven’t heard anything from Tiltfactor in past week. Trish will contact them to see if any updates. Let them know we are all out next week.

Mining Biodiversity
Annotations –Trish almost complete with Batch 2, Jen will start annotating. William will be looking for an adjudicator to review the annotators
IMLS interim report due Jan 31st– William got financial from Dianne and is working on narrative. William has a draft and will send this week.

Time away in March
William out March 16th-18th
Trish out March 12-20th
Mike L. out March 16th-23rd
Next meeting Tuesday March 24th