Usability - discussions with TIm and Kevin. We have multiple use cases but relatively straightforward features. Astrid will help out too. Document with testing plans
Indexing - Huda has been working on pseudonym and see-also cases so that search results from Solr more closely match UI needs. Need to check this in local VM but then need to update main suggest index. Open question about throwing out URIs not currently in catalog then when anything new is added one would have check for it - not sure which strategy is better but perhaps not important to deal with updates now. Related, think that a 2-phase index process is best for now
Question about whether to spend time on investigation of stemming and phonetic settings. Tim notes comment from earlier studies about interest in coping with spelling errors. Control scope for now, copy what we do on the main D&A system
John notes difference between Blacklight twitter type-ahead (sub library bloodhound) and the type-ahead that Tim wrote. We want to retain the system of headings that Tim developed (which likely rules out bloodhound) but then there is still a need to decide whether to use twitter type-ahead and whether to use jquery or not → suggestion that initially we should try to put in Tim's code directly and consider refactoring for twitter type-ahead later
Tim just restarted work on rspec tests for expected results
Plan for any index updates next week, user tests the following week
2020-05-22 Dave is working through LoC authorities with new caching scheme, expect to hear about now
QA accuracy
2020-05-29
Pretest results (see image in QA/Sinopia weekly notes). Summary 60 tests run with 26 failing. Of the 26, 4 were close to passing with the position off by 1 or 2. The other 22, the expected subject URI wasn't in the results at all. Geography data is especially bad at providing unexpected results regardless of whether it is coming from the cache or direct from the authority. 10 or the 22 failing tests were searching for a place.
Dave has updated the indexing for all LOC, AGROVOC, NALT, Getty, dbpedia, MeSH, RDA, CERL, and Ligatus. These are ready for a post test run to see what impact it has on the test results.
Authorities
2020-05-22
Have worked on CERL issues with Sinopia that will be released soon, otherwise mostly working on Exhibits
Interest from Paul Walk fro Antleaf has a client interested in using QA to access Wikidata/Wikibase. I pointed him to our code in QA for out initial connection to the simple Wikidata API.
Linked Data API Working Group
Starting first Monday in June and then every other week for 4 months, logistics put into place
2020-05-22 - Doing pre-work for WG start
2020-05-29 - Added initial working group documents...
Possible relationship to entity management work in FOLIO
How much full LD vs linky-MARC?
CUL LTS working group is hoping to add URIs to MARC before FOLIO migration as a substitute for some of the heading management we do in Voyager in other ways. Perhaps won't be done ahead of switch but as part of the data migration. Considering how to update/maintain going forward
Greg has been working on setting up a copy of Cornell Blacklight