September 3, 2013

Tech Review meeting 9/3/13

Present: William Ulate, Trish Rose-Sandler, Mike Lichtenberg

Art of Life
Kyle shared link to JSON output – Mike has not had a change to review yet. Trish will review tomorrow to see if complies with metadata workflow we outlined awhile back. Trish review in Notepad ++

Algorithm update - Martin talk with Bob Corrigan this week about pressing deadline for algorithm work

Face to face meeting set for Nov 12th & 13th in St Louis – rooms reserved for 3 people. *William will verify if we have funds for Nathan or Anthony. Trish will send email to Rob and Guarav to book flights, we will offer up to 3 nights at Trelease if needed. If we book then get their travel name, dates, preferred flights, and frequent flier numbers

Tuesday – lunch catered, group dinner
Wed – breakfast (Trish will bring in bagels, cream cheese, fruit and coffee), lunch catered

Global BHL
Joel sending BHL disks to China, BHL Europe will try operate under CETAF so they can make proposals for funding, William and Martin did presentation to Mexico about joining BHL US/UK.
Workshop in Mexico to be put on by CONABIO sometime this year.
Celebration of SCIELO/Brazil in RIO in Sept 21-25th in October.
Global BHL meeting last week in January in Australia – only China and Australia have confirmed so far.
Nancy Gwinn went to SE Asia – Singapore interested in joining BHL. Singapore Botanic Gardens is contact.

Global Names
Mike looking at deduplication items in production – We need to make decisions on types of cluster relationships we want (e.g. sameAs, containedin, relatedTo). Many results got clustered that arent’ duplicates – e.g. short titles like “Notes and News” cluster together but are in fact from different volumes. Mike says we could use DOIs to split them. On the other hand some articles whose pages were not consecutive within a volume (e.g. 1-3 5-7) were seen as different articles and given different DOIs by JSTOR so the DOIs are always reliable for distinguishing entities.

William suggested maybe we should do a proposal for TDWG about deduplication challenges. RefBank may add functionality for clustering.

Other
Mike Working on pushing portal code to github
Follow up to user generated PDF phone call – Mike working on sample set to put in beta so group can review.

Travel
Trish at DigitalHPS in Bloomington Sept 5th-7th for talk on Art of Life with Daron Dierkes, Engelmann Project manager
William will attend Sept 24/25 meeting at EOL and BHL about future of 2 orgs working together.
TDWG – still defining topics for BHL symposium, moved to Tuesday, only 3 proposals so far – all from BHL US/UK. Jiri will submit proposal, Patricia will attend