Agenda / Minutes

Updates from HM
- AR-1300
  - minor bug in the first release (the inheritance for some inherited fields won't show up; new patch available now to remedy this, but HM will come up with a better way to address this bug.)
  - still thinking of how to document this information (the ids for the solr docs have changed, and that will be documented in the next release of the documentation).
  - will still require some updates to the code in the PUI to make sure that labels display properly for all things inherited
  - delivered with the default configuration (but that doesn't include all of the new features).
  - to do: mark will follow up with HM about turning on more fields in the configuration file so that the testing group can do additional testing.
  - question about the new #s used to differentiate the PUI index from staff index documents.
  - solr index will double in size... folks will need to have fair warning that their solr indices will more than double in size with the new PUI.
  - the staff solr indexer will run independently of the PUI indexer... but the PUI indexer will run more slowly due to the inheritance.
  - to do: mark triggs will send bobbi instructions on how to run the dev-indexer with more memory.
  - suggestion to use two mysql backends for development testing: one with all of the data, and another with a small dataset (in this case, the test corpus)
  - to do: james will update the nightly push of the test corpus to include the PUI indexer state if it's not already.
  - kudos to Cory's spec for AR-1300!
- "full tree" vs. 3 up, 3 down, etc.
  - we'll discuss on the next call
Updates from Bobbi
- "advanced search" highlighting (new line per query fragment)
- empty searches added (i.e. you don't have to search for "*" to get all of the records)
- will update so that "hitting the enter" key on any text field initiates the search
- going to concept records (subjects, agents) re-includes the material description records as search results.
- added sorting (including years when appropriate).
- new update going in tonight to fix some of the span html elements.
- may need to revisit the readmore.js as it was developed for a separate use case.
- request to implement a post api endpoint for advanced search features.
Usability updates
- ran a new test right before Thanksgiving... will probably be uploaded to the wiki early next week.
- intern will be ending soon.
- could we squeeze in another usability test for AR-1300? probably not enough time, but...
- harvard will try to add another intern to do usability testing in the springtime.
New date for the candidate/beta release date
- bobbi will be working on the project now until 12/23.
- "if we're going to push the date, let's not push it several times."
- work to do: tree work, single-scroll, PDF, request feature, container inventory, digital object view, minor clean-ups, etc.
- perhaps try to find a good date in february to give plenty of breathing room?
- to do: discuss and determine a date before the next conference call. (ideally share that with the community by dec. 9th at the latest, and include a video overview of the current PUI with AR-1300 feature; mark can do this).
Next meeting: two weeks from now, same time?
- December 13th 4 p.m. EDT

Not available to attend:

Mark Cooper
Jason
Melissa
Brad

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