TechCall_27Nov2017

Agenda

Upcoming Executive Committee face-to-face meeting (Martin)
Wikidata and author cleanup
General updates

EC Meeting -
Reviewing work package document from Tech Meeting
Budget and funding for anything above and beyond Mike's contract
2 upcoming priorities - Transcriptions and Full Text
Martin will recommend Transcriptions first
Transcriptions = 2 months
Full text = 6-7 months (on longer side if scheduled for after transcriptions)

Wikidata and author names
Carolyn will send a response thanking them for their interest and all of their work and let them know that while it remains a priority, there are other technical development priorities that will require our attention for the next several months or more.

Clarifai
Script for Ari to upload data to Clarifai
She'll use that evaluate all images in Flickr
Capture responses into a spreadsheet for analysis
Might do some training on areas ie algae ferns etc
Waiting for the contact regarding:
APIs limited to 5000 calls per month
We have 120,000 in Flickr account
They were discussing lifting the limit

Batch article ingest
Responses coming in from testers so Mike should be good to go with that soon

Taxon Names
Joel might get Dima's code installed this week.