TechCall_18apr2016
Action Items
Talk about full text basic requirements next week, each come prepared to discuss 5 or 6 things that we want it to do, e.g., See your search term highlighted in the text
Carolyn will reserve conference line going forward
Report on Tech Priorities at Members’ Meeting
Group prefers short bulleted list
Mention of proof of concept for type-ahead
Biggest point of discussion was UF
Form is hoped to solve a lot of it
BHL Move
Legal dept, working on it and don’t know when it will be done
Syncing of data, non-stop
Let’s just continue working
Will require doing add’l vulnerability checks?
At this point we’re good
Syncing of data and files, could hold off on that for time being
OCIO TRB group raised issue of terms and conditions at service level agreement
Because not si.edu falls in a grey domain
Need to have legal look at it
Second part is privacy threshold analysis
What we’re collecting and how we’re using it and disclosing it to our users
e.g., if we use cookies, need to notify them
They found it was that more than just website, widgets from blog, feedback form sends info to Gemini
No time frame has been presented
Some of those institutions that are already used at institution and already have clearance on them
At some point need to move off blogger
WordPress or Typepad
Wikispaces for public version, at some point we’d like to move off that. And more integrated and still updatable
MBG server upgrades
Probably up to us to decide
One upgrade could take it down for a day or three
Full text search
Technical perspective
UI perspective
Can we start ramping up now?
How do we want to proceed?
Technologcial solutions
Greatest concern is size
And whether SOLR can support it
SOLR and ELASTIC search and it might be ELASTIC is a better fit
SOLR might require an obscene amt of software
Need to consider our stopwords
What seen and read, no way to punch in numbers to see what would take
Need to prototype
Should we just start with ELASTIC?
Was going to try to write some code against both servers to see if there was an advantage of one over the other
DPLA launched with ELASTIC search. Mark ??? or Tom Johnson, could we talk to them or look at their code (believe it’s on GITHUB)
MB did some evaluations
Attempted to index w SOLR and encountered issues
Trying with ELASTIC now
Faceting or drill down
Does NARA have it?
NY Times?
Find examples
Iterative approach, maybe start with just basic search
Add facets later
Do we need another server for search functionality? Do we need more than one?
DPLA might be the best one on par with what we’re trying to do
Is there any kind of breaks we should put on it?
What is status of full text search of metadata?
Check documentation – make sure it says that.
List of requirements for what we want to see on the screen
Mike can go through some Gemini issues
Talk about it next week, 5 or 6 things that we want it to do
e.g., See your search term highlighted in the text
Basics
We can do more in-depth later
IFLA workshop for Visual Resources
Trish will take a look and see if it’s a fit
Offer from Bibliotheca Alexandrina for technical help
This group to discuss in May
Also interested in working on improving name finding
Doing similar things for EOL
So should jump hurdle of Membership first, not going to do any planning until actually cleared
EOL presentation at BHL meeting
Developing an editor to extract
Really relying on Egyptian team as developers
Andrew, product managers
Bob Corrigan
Dawn Mason
Edu team at Harvard
Katja Schulz and Jen Hammock
All servers are running here at the Smithsonian through the other zone
Images and tagging have been successful. Perhaps something building on that?
They will be starting to re-ingest the images
Questions about tagging, Grace and Jen will be talking when Grace returns.
What kinds of images and what kinds of tags EOL will accept
