TechCall_02jul2018

Agenda
For quick reference, BHL Tech Workplan available here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Efl9Ju4bjAvYwt47_Wm2tS2ZHY6LHPIxqNN0B1CZ9E0/edit?usp=sharing

Full text search
Update on Advanced Search changes

• Re-indexing to enable fielded searching / metadata only searching
• UI change to enable toggling between full text and metadata
• Removing volume field from Advanced Search option
• Anything needed to continue moving forward?

Made change to AND rather than OR which will improve results sets significantly.
Volume field removed and will be moved to production
Working on UI to indicate all terms or exact phrase
Bigger change will be indexing which will be worked

Update on API v.3


Moving the link to the old interface to page footer
For discussion: To have link perform as intended will require a lot of search-page specific code that normally functions independently of page being viewed

Header and footer intended to be frame so that particular link is dynamically built link. So very much tied to search functionality itself.

So might not be worth the level of effort.
Action Item: Revisit with Martin on potentially removing altogether and if so at what time.

Transcriptions

• Update on request for sample documents
  • Harvard's are good to go with what Katie sent. Deadline end of next week
• Anything needed from Tech group at this point?

Follow up on action items from prior calls

• 61034: What will be required to add Piece Type: Suppl. to Macaw and Admin Dash?

In Macaw, it's a simple enough task to add.
A lot of this falls to Mike.
Not difficult but does touch a lot of things.
Carolyn and Mike to touch base in next week or two on if complete before or after work on Transcriptions

• Susan will look for a Gemini issue and verify this is still a problem (See comment in transcription document) - Susan opened issue 79504. Filters seemed to not be working. In Chrome. Susan will also check in Firefox and MS browsers. Mike sees the problem in Chrome now. Doesn't look like it's a browser issue. If log files had incomplete data because it was entered as code was still evolving... might be wishful thinking.
• Carolyn updated Gemini ticket 61157 to look Bianca back in on date issues with MODS exports (for when Bianca returns).
• 60922 : Mike will create an indicator at the item level in the admin dash to prevent ingest of article metadata from external sources such as BioStor. Involves database changes, changes to Admin site, and BioStor processes. For revisiting after transcriptions.
• For June 25 or later: Susan will consult with Cataloging Group on status of author name work. (They have a call in about two weeks from now; Tech Team will revisit after that call). Group met about a week and a half ago. Still needs to be ironed out. Meeting next week. Note: WikiData group are submitting lists of discrepancies between OCLC and LC numbers; actively scrubbing the data. Just fyi that they're sending it to us.
• To revisit after Transcriptions: Moving Walls (58083) - links to content on publisher/rights holder website that is more recent than what would be available in BHL
  Decision: (from discussion with Martin) To be worked on after Transcriptions, before DOI assignments.
• Searching by identifiers: Susan and Joel to discuss offline on search needs for identifiers such as TL-2 and Soulsby numbers