TechCall_25Sept2017

Agenda

Develop a timeline for transcriptions and our other version 1.5 priorities.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EIGen2NtlndWuPzw_oqvohRq2CMyPa1ImXESuIzFme8/edit?usp=sharing

Discuss: We will need a change in the UI to address Susan’s point to indicate that when that “box” has a transcription it is not an “uncorrected OCR” – we’ll need to finalize that wording/description. [on the technical side, I’m not sure how complex that will be to have two context sensitive labels or if we can have a single label that would indicate sometimes OCR sometimes transcription]

Notes
If indicating the difference, we would need a database field for that.
Could it be an automated field?
It would default to OCR, and you would just change the value of that field if someone uploads a transcription.

What table or tables are involved? Undetermined at this point.
Just one column in one table.

Will be simpler to add now than clean up later.
Allow for more than 2 possibilities.

MCR - character recognition. We're not trying to flag any controlled vocabularies; not supporting mark-up at this point.

Carolyn to ask what people have:

• Quantity, we can only take in text
• Systems / software they're using
• We need UTF-8 text files. Are you able to export that from the system you're using? If not, what kinds of file types can you export?

Carolyn to send out a questionnaire to Partners this week
Carolyn to schedule a time for mid-October for Transcription Working Group

Digital items that are hybrid - printed and manuscript. Will we be accepting partial transcriptions? Some pages transcribed, others not?

Database - keep it there, add a field to indicate which is transcribed, which is OCR.
UI - keep more general, uncorrected OCR or transcription
Re-write the UI text
Carolyn to send out a questionnaire to Partners this week
Carolyn to schedule a time for mid-October for Transcription Working Group in mid-October

Carolyn will set up a spreadsheet to assign who's doing what and figure out timeline.
Note that if 1.5 development continues through Q2, Mike and Joel will not be available for work on v.2.

HTTPS – installed on server today; going to schedule a time to turn on SSL again and see how it goes. Joel will see if we can re-issue the certificate for all the domains. October 1, will get main site by then, going to try for all by then, too.

Mike working on batch loading articles

Blog is moving to WordPress. Goes into beta version for a couple months. Will be up next week.