Oct 6 2014

Tech review meeting 10/6/14
Present: William, Trish, Mike, Bianca
BHL
Migration of CB content to BHL -
Any word on Martin’s meeting with JSTOR? Trish will send him email to followup
Bianca is working on language for redirect. William has to meet with Mike W about how to do the redirect
GNRD name service won’t stay up and running - status still the same. Mike emailed Dima today to say still not working. Options – replicate and run locally.
MARC mappings document status? Meeting last week with Bianca and William on Friday. Started a spreadsheet that they will continuing working on and then will pass on to Mike and Trish to fill in some info on MARC subfields.
Collection call today to discuss view of abstracts/notes in BHL. Needed notes in CB to have somewhere to map author names for MOsquite Journal that were inconsistently formatted and wouldn’t work in author field. In CB notes were indexed but in BHL they are not. What are pros/cons with indexing abstract and notes? Some are very large and hard to index with Sequel servers but maybe easier with Solr
Browsing by contributor –. Bianca recommends prioritizing this over the collections change.
Bianca is working with NAL to submit their content to biodiversity Collection approx. 16k items. Its already in BHL just not tagged as biodiversity and IA
Bianca will send link to CB contributors in Gemini – is DPLA bringing in BHL segments? Check with Suzanne

Art of Life
Flickr content - Waiting for Robert from IA to return this week and then Martin will set up a call.
Flickr tags – Trish to review
Classified Images –set up an intern for Art of Life – 150 hrs – she can start this fall but will finish in spring.
Zooniverse/ConSciCom – better sense of roles/responsibilities. Sent email to other BHL folks so they know what we’re doing with them.
Trish send out email
Trish needs to identify 20-30 class types to send to them.
Cost share report – William is working on


Purposeful Gaming
Meeting tomorrow with Tiltfactor to go over doc.
Text to image linking – Desmond had some partial results. Mike will check in again with him
Architecture for Managing multiple OCR versions – what are our next steps? Should followup with Scribe designer, Stuart Lynn, at Zooniverse who is looking into managing multiple versions of transcriptions. Trish will send email asking availability this week and next.
Susan Lynch – new employee at NYBG from AMNH that replaced John MIgnault. May join the TAG
Mining Biodiversity
Grace in Toronto last week with Dalhousie folks. Learned a lot but theoretical. Has better understanding of MB project goals and social media.
Focus group set up for next 2 weeks - will give us feedback on mockups and support semantic searches
Collecting authority lists and thesaurus
Tagging of content by annotators– Riza will train how to use tools
Altmetrics – responded they have capacity to get URIs. They can find references to our pages in social universe. Can get a sense of how many people the message reached.