TechCall_21mar2016
Agenda
- Discovery Tools Working Group - Adam Chandler and Bianca Crowley
- BHL Move Status
- Updates / Questions
Notes
Martin, Mike, Joel, Susan, Carolyn, Bianca, Adam
(Note: Adam also provided a closing Report on the DTWG, pasted at end of this message)
DTWG Started in March 2015, Charged until Dec with improving title and article level metadata created and sent to discovery layers and knowledge bases, etc.
Essentially, involved a lot of mapping between standards.
Group completed all analysis for MODS for DPLA
Completed for NISO KBART
Completed all the analysis for JATS formatted article level feed for BHL.
Analyzed for title list and coverage info from content provider to knowledge base.
Ran into some impedance between what’s available in BHL and what KBART requires.
Did some research on article level feed, settled on JATS format for article level. All notes, files, from the Group are all available on wiki
We’re now bringing the task force to a close and handing over the remaining work required in the database and software to the Technical Advisors.
We realize it sounds like an awful lot of work but it is what’s used by the industry.
Mike: It would allow BHL to do other things, too, including improving quality of receipt of open URLs.
Bianca: Only thing I would add is we did manage to complete MODS
We can do JATS now. KBART does require these edits to take place before we can move forward. MODS – helps with DPLA. JATS -- helps with OCLC, could also be used by ProQuest and Summon.
Some of these Gemini tickets do have broader scope than just KBART. They can address other problems with how the Admin site currently works.
What we’re asking the Technical Advisors to do now is to prioritize in whatever way you feel is appropriate
The Tech Group will need to sketch out what is feasible to do in various timeframes.
Summon integration can’t be done appropriately until alignment with KBART requirements is squared away.
Martin: We will want to review in conjunction with other tech priorities and where it falls on the spectrum.
Susan: The EABL group taking ownership for the article level metadata so JATS is something Susan and Trish already signed up for.
The big question is how/when we want to move forward on the KBART one.
Where else we can feed our MODS?
People haven’t always followed the right MODS feed
We foresee some challenges with implementing full text search.
Mike: There would be times when I could do them in parallel. Not sure yet how much but some could be done in parallel.
DPLA will be reviewing our MODS in April.
Adam: My observation from coming in from a new angle is that BHL has, as a digitization project, had a lot of focus on the digitization process and then on the website. Then, in terms of metadata, once it gets into the system there aren’t the resources in terms of managing, improving, and enhancing it. That’s something we do a lot of at Cornell and it’s something that looking strategically ahead to BHL’s version 2.0, BHL has an opportunity to think about in terms of resources and managing that metadata part.
Artworks issues
Bianca will turn into response to Collections Committee discussion. Clarified minutes from last call.
Mike and Joel:
Found some items not getting into BHL because of the OCR issues.
Some field notes, about 6 items not getting in right now because of this.
Some validation, pages with scanned data file and number of pages in OCR. Will try again and follow up offline if continues.
DTWG Final Report
The BHL Discovery Tools Task Force met bi-weekly (22 times) over Webex from March 2015 - March 2016. Meeting notes and all the group's documents are available on the project wiki page:
DiscoveryTools
Focus of the group's effort was on improving the title and article level metadata that BHL makes available to discovery systems and knowledge bases. The group feels it has accomplished all it can as constituted and that the outstanding work should be passed along to the Technical Advisory Group.
Completed
1. The group completed all the analysis and code for a MODS title level feed for DPLA.
2. The group completed all the analysis for a NISO KBART title level feed.
3. The group completed all the analysis for JATS formatted article level feed for BHL.
Within scope, but not completed (Gemini tickets):
57285 Indication of Publication type requirement
57286 Documenation/Requirements for Metadata -KBart Needs
57400 Create article level feed in JATS format
57401 Retrospective Title Clean Up (removing extra data): Remove the 245c portion
57474 Add Fields to Item Table To Capture Additional Volume Details
57475 Update Machine Interfaces to Use New Item Volume Fields
57476 Parse Volume Details into New Fields During Data Ingest
57477 Change Sequencing of Serial Volumes by the BHL Ingest Process
57478 Populate New Item.Volume Fields by Parsing Existing Volume Values
57479 Create New Reports For Managing Volume Metadata Cleanup
57480 Create a KBART Data Export
57483 Change Post-Scan Process For Item Updates and Re-Sequencing
57484 IA Partner Meta App Updates for Volume Metadata
57485 Macaw Updates for Volume Metadata
57486 BHL Ingest Updates for Volume Metadata
57487 Updated Item Edit Page with New Fields Related to Volume
