RE: SIMILE PI phone conference, 15-Jan-04 1100 EDT/1600 BST

Regrets: Mick Bass - I will be in transit from UK to US.

Thanks Mark for running the call.

- Mick


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> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 12:49 PM
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> Subject: SIMILE PI phone conference, 15-Jan-04 1100 EDT/1600 BST
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> 
> SIMILE PI phone conference, 15-Jan-04 1100 EDT/1600 BST
>   
> 866-639-4752 or +1-574-935-6705
> PIN: 2536617
>      
> irc://irc.w3.org:6665/simile
> 
> Agenda
> 
> 1. Review demonstration goals
> 
> 2. Review project task list
> 
>    - round table on currently active tasks
> 
>    - review non-active tasks
> 
> (More details of these items are below)
> 
> 
> DEMONSTRATION GOALS
> 
> Stage 1: Using subset of Artstor corpus, data in memory, 
> demonstrate that we can
> 
> 1. view subset of Artstor data
> 2. view OCW data
> 3. use faceted browse on subset of Artstor data
> 4. use faceted browse on OCW data
> 5. query subset of Artstor data
> 6. query OCW data
> 7. do 1 & 2 together
> 8. do 3 & 4 together
> 9. do 5 & 6 together
> 
> Stage 2: Repeat stages 1 - 9 but for the full Artstor corpus 
> with the data in persistant database
> 
> Stage 3: Repeat stages 1 - 9 but for full Artstor corpus, 
> retrieve data via HTTP
> 
> 
> CURRENTLY ACTIVE TASKS
> 
> 1 - Revising Artstor and OCW datasets (Mark)
> Progress: OCW uses Perl and XSLT. Unfortunately getting Perl 
> to work on my machine took nearly a day so little progress.
> Subtasks:
> 1.1 - Add type information to OCW
> 1.2 - Adopt a common way of displaying names in both Artstor 
> and OCW 1.3 - Work on custom browser has highlighted that 
> some of the fields in Artstor are hierarchical, need to 
> change data model to reflect this and update browser
> 
> 2 - Displaying Artstor and OCW datasets in Haystack (Steve, 
> Vineet, Mark)
> Progress: Can display Artstor data in Haystack (see enclosed 
> screenshot)
> Subtasks:
> 2.1 - Some issues about redraw speed in Haystack
> 2.2 - If you click on facet, then it no longer displays as a 
> collection but as a list of URIs 2.3 - want to be able to 
> customise the fields in the facet navigator as some contain 
> technical metadata which we are excluding from the demo 2.4 - 
> In Haystack, the faceted browser only identifies 984 items in 
> the collection, whereas the custom browser has 3046 - why is 
> this? 2.5 - Haystack also needs to address the hierarchical 
> fields issue, but it is less obvious here as this detail is 
> swamped due to the technical metadata 2.6 - Need to work on 
> displaying OCW data, but this is waiting on the OCW dataset
> 
> 3 - Produce HTML front-end for Haystack (Steve)
> Progress: Steve
> 
> 4 - Custom browser (Mark)
> Progress: Have made very good progress, now have a working 
> prototype that can browse Artstor data (see enclosed screenshot)
> Subtasks:
> 4.1 - Need to add paging for facets
> 4.2 - Need to add reordering of facets
> 4.3 - Need to add hierarchical grouping of facets, where 
> appropriate 4.4 - Could add searching to facets 4.5 - Need to 
> demonstrate OCW dataset in prototype 4.6 - Currently 
> prototype uses lucene as a query engine. Need to switch to 
> using RDQL. 4.7 - Put prototype in CVS for team feedback
> 
> 5 - CVS access for all team members (Mark)
> Progress: Mark has arranged CVS access for all team members
> Subtasks:
> 5.1 - Need to reorganize CVS in a more intelligent manner, 
> make proper build scripts
> 
> 6 - Haystack Joseki Integration (Vineet, David H, Steve)
> "David H is gone till the end of the month. He managed to get 
> the integration working, except that there where bugs - some 
> views displayed properly while others gave errors. We do not 
> know the nature of the bug, and I have a feeling that Dennis 
> wanted to look at it. I might look at it if I manage to 
> finish the other things before then, i.e. not before the last 
> week of this month." Vineet
> 
> 
> NON-ACTIVE TASKS
> 
> 7 - Haystack user testing
> Identify several team members to do this. 
> 
> 8 - Managing Haystack / SIMILE issue list
> Identify someone to manage this issue list. 
> 
> 9 - Identifying a subset of corpus for stage 1 demo
> Identify someone to do this
> 
> 10 - Making datasets available via Joseki
> Two issues here: we need a process for doing this, as we will 
> have to update them, so need to make updates as simple as 
> possible, and we need to do this in a secure way. Identify 
> someone to work on this
> 
> 11 - Custom browser user testing
> Custom browser not yet finished, but when issues are resolved 
> need to make it available to team for user testing in the 
> same way as Haystack. Also need to manage issue list in a 
> similar way. 
> 
> 12 - Exploring data using Brownsauce or RDFNavigator
> Proposed by Eric Miller
> 
> 13 - Creating infrastructure at simile.mit.edu
> Private email list, WIKI
> 
> Dr Mark H. Butler
> Research Scientist                HP Labs Bristol
> mark-h_butler@hp.com
> Internet: http://www-uk.hpl.hp.com/people/marbut/
> 
>

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