2016-11-01

Owned by Mark Custer
Last updated: Nov 01, 2016

Agenda (and minutes):

  • updates from Bobbi
    • Needs advice from HM about how to implement the Advanced Search features on the homepage.  HM will take a look today.
    • Questions shared with HM last week:
      • HM will add a date field to sort by in the solr documents.
      • HM can use Solr to include something like a "did you mean" suggestion
      • HM will look into something like "and"ing terms rather than "or"ing them in a single-field search (e.g. the issue that a search for "stars and stripes forever" essentially returns everything, since many of the records have the term "and").
      • HM will make sure that the top container value and indicators are added to the Solr index so that a search for "Box 1" in a specific collection that has a box 1, will be successful
      • grouping results by collection?  not sure on best way to do this yet, but an example with how NCSU is doing this was shared, e.g. https://github.com/NCSU-Libraries/aspace_public  (no clue if that will help, but just an FYI)
      • put an entire tree into a solr doc?  HM has concerns, since some of these collections can have upwards of 100k nodes.  other ways to handle this for the side-bar navigation that's on each resource/component page?  maybe go back to CH design, which would show 3 up and 3 down (whether ancestor and/or sibling)???  HM will think more about this one after AR-1300
  • AR-1300 updates
    • started work on this / have some concern.  deepest tree HM had on hand was 7 or 8 deep.  should perform well up to about 10 deep, but still need to do some performance testing to be certain.
    • all of the inheritable data elements are configurable...  in order to meet REQ 1, we can ship a config file that will have those DACS-recommended elements turned on.  sounds elegant to me!
    • HM is also still thinking through how to combine the inherited elements with the rest so that it's clear what's been inherited.
    • will have more to report on the next call.
  • review accessibility test results (save for next meeting)
  • 10/27 PUI meeting update and feedback on newly prioritized list: https://docs.google.com/document/d/102g1US7609_-ARQuuN8icu3nwl0rvH4eWV9QCaZlTC4/edit
  • HM:  advice on the port number of the test corpus about the PUI, before we share the link (hopefully this Friday).
    • lots of ports already in use, but James will take a look.  if nothing else works, i can just add a note about that in my message.
  • ...
  • next meeting?
    • November 15th, Tuesday, 4 p.m. EDT / 1 p.m. CDT, November 16th, 8 a.m. AEST