Samvera Newspapers Interest Group Call: 2020-07-02

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Date

02 Jul 2020

Time: 1PM EST / 12PM CT / 11AM MST / 10AM PTD

Facilitator: Eben English (Boston Public Library)

Notetaker:  TBD

Etherpad: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Samvera_Newspapers_Interest_Group__2020-07-02

Attendees

• Eben English
• Brian McBride
• pbinkley
• your name here

Project links:

• Github: https://github.com/samvera-labs/newspaper_works
• Test site: https://newspaperworks.digitalnewspapers.org
• Vagrant: https://github.com/marriott-library/samvera-newspapers-vagrant
• Wiki: https://github.com/marriott-library/newspaper_works/wiki

Agenda

1. NewspaperWorks project update
   1. No recent development
      1. Initial plans in December/January to have 1-week monthly sprints
      2. Neither BPL or Utah able to stick with this schedule
      3. Pandemic has been a big factor, lots of dev time going towards previously unscheduled projects to support work-from-home capabilities
   2. Future schedule
      1. Attempt to re-start efforts when Hyrax 3.0 is officially released
         
         
2. Features with some current work
   
   1. Support Hyrax 3.0.0.rc* (#197)
   2. article-level batch ingest (#196)
   3. timeline visualization (#199)
      
      
3. Priority of future work?
   1. Issue list: https://github.com/samvera-labs/newspaper_works/issues
      
      1. Add issues for updating testing compatibility with Hyrax >2.5.1, <3.
         
         
4. Data modeling for article segmentation: 
   https://github.com/samvera-labs/newspaper_works/wiki/Article-segmentation-in-METS-ALTO#notes
   
   1. Need a way to store info about article coordinates on page images
      1. RDF not a good candidate for this
      2. IIIF manifest (or some discrete IIIF-compliant JSON)?
         
         1. goes against established pattern of generating manifest data on the fly
      3. arbitrary JSON structure?
   2. More thought/investigation needed.
      
      
5. Intel sharing from other groups/projects
   
   1. UAlberta has a non-Samvera/Fedora repository (Jupiter), looking to work on newspapers soon
      
      1. code: https://github.com/ualbertalib/jupiter
      2. public front-end: https://era.library.ualberta.ca/
      3. BPL has a similar app in development
      4. Hoping to refactor front-end components of NewspaperWorks into separate gem (blacklight_newspapers?)
   2. BPL recently completed Zooniverse crowdsourced transcription project
      1. Zooniverse may be doing similar projects with newspapers soon
      2. Boston Phoenix?
   3. Annals of Cleveland: digital library of newspaper index produced via WPA during Great Depression, includes links to ChronAm
      
      1. https://www.wallandbinkley.com/projects/2019/annals-of-cleveland/
         
         
6. Next meeting: 
   
   1. Thursday, September 3 2020