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- Huda Khan to discuss with Astrid and David possible collaboration with U Chicago over usability (and maybe others in DOG team)
- Notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_V7JfAKqSn63-G0zupLZigt8o7R3v_WXC7hWlt8w744/edit
- 2020-01-10 Chicago report will be discussed in DAG meeting on Jan 21 (expect to happen as scheduled). Follow up with David and Astrid to look at what we could apply from what they learned and what additional user studies they could help us with
- DAG presentation did occur and it was very interesting (link to meeting) – in depth interviews to understand research needs with open-ended questions, need more thought to understand how we might apply lessons from this
- 2020-02-14 Chicago uses vufind which already has a notion of similar items, questions of what types of semantic similarity might be interesting. Also discussion of author browse and articles; presentation of introductory materials for adjacent topics – they are going to discuss internally what to investigate further. Notes from U Chicago
- E. Lynette Rayle QA performance
- Dave made some changes to address issues with 50x responses, still possible issues under high load (possibly something on the Sinopia side but waiting to look at IP address to logging to identify whether same source is hitting us with same request)
- Ongoing discussion about the need build more complex indexes to deal with slowness of complex queries
- 2020-01-31 - Dave, Steven, Lynette had a meeting this week. Created a list (HERE) . Dave is still optimistic about perf improvements in SPARQL with change from CONSTRUCT to SELECT, but not sure when Dave will be able to try this. Also looking at indexing approaches with smaller sources than SVDE, will try LOC which is expected to take 3 days. Will also work to cache context when needed and not to request it when it isn't needed. Steven noted this on #authorities channel. Three categories of approaches: 1) amount of extended context, 2) efficiency of queries, 3) scalability of requests. Longer term there are questions of lookup vs. autocomplete modes
- 2020-02-14 Dave has made progress this week, is moving to have all data in index tailored to search in order to avoid SPARQL queries at search time, results are in a blob of RDF. Working on CERL first, expect to get this our soon. Will then try MeSH and OCLC FAST, then LC.
- Adam Smith to investigate cost and any issues with setting up a D&A Beta system to allow broader testing of some discovery ideas from this work
- John Skiles Skinner to continue discussion with Hathi trust about an API or access to their index
- 2020-01-31 There is investigation but not sure whether it will result in something we can use
- 2020-02-14 Some more discussions with Hathi and suggestions was to use current search with debug facility that includes things like facet values in machine readable form (requires either 1) a user account for testing, or 2) to use IP access for our dev machine but there is some issue of fixed external IP for our dev VMs)
- Huda Khan Tim Worrall John Skiles Skinner to finish up lessons learned from BAM!
- 2020-02-14 Will be done by next week...
- See items under travel/conferences
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