Mar 4 - Mar 15, 2024

Monday, March 18, 2024

Report on iteration Mar 4, 2024 — Mar 15, 2024 (includes all issues completed before Mar 18, 2024).

Late summary of activity over the first iteration of March. Quite busy despite the reduced work over spring break.

PPA

added Ends of Prosody people to the mailing list
support of Brian/Laure as they work on excerpts issue
inventory of NLP work from the fall (part 2 next week)
acceptance testing for 4 issues (2/4 closed)
undergrad wrangling
Collected the version information for the PPA excerpts; found that the vast majority of these volumes were mostly recently updated in 2022+ and that at least in one instance the page range has updated since the excerpts were last checked/verified
PPA-NLP planning
Completed the fix for the pairtree files issue (#538) and helped resolve the initial failures in testing
Began work on upgrading PPA to Solr 9 (#572)
made progress on various ppa rsync and excerpt related improvements
completed work to recalculate page counts for PPA records
Revised the NLP portion of the PPA Charter
Organized Github issues into epics
Added all of the EEBO-TCP issues into Github
Tested issues #538 and #567
Responded to and met with Brian to discuss excerpts fix
Emailed Jon Stroop who confirmed PUL doesn’t have an easy way to submit things to HT, but suggested we follow up with Esme Cowles who has done it before (apparently it’s only easy if you’re Google or Internet Archive)

AAP

Obtained Kreike data for local use
Met with Wangyal to better understand what the shared files are and also gained more general insights about the history of this decades-in-the-making project
Debriefed with Jeri on my meeting with Wangyal and discussed where this leaves us

Agile/Scrum/Lean trainings
Work on project closeout ahead of conversations about GeoTaste and Sim Risk
RSE team overview of how we create pull requests on GitHub (edited)

PM work

huge headway on Project Design curriculum
Staff meeting and discussion on new (revamped) programming
Project Design planning session with Mary

Other CDH / University work

Got Mallet installed after running into a Java 21 backwards incompatibility issue (David really is the one to thank here)
Began prepping for Wouter’s classes on topic modeling (this got delayed by the Mallet issue)
Grant applications summaries and write up
Lunch, Dinner, Talk, and Dinner with Jo
RSE town hall and start planning for a proposal workshop
attended spring Research Computing Advisory Group meeting and shared notes
attended intro to pytorch workshop
two planning meetings for PUL DEI devops fellowship search committee
Closing out APRs

Active projects

geniza (0 points, 1 issue)
ppa-django (0 points, 6 issues)

Releases

Velocity

Development

0 points, 7 issues. Rolling velocity: 1

Closed issues by project

geniza (1 points, 10 issues)
- development (1 points, 10 issues)
  - As a frontend user, I want to see dating information displayed on document details when available, so that I can find out the time frame of a document when it is known. 🆕 enhancement, performant
  - As a content editor, I would like to see Historic Shelfmark on the Document edit page, to ensure that my work is correct when working with old scholarship. (1) 🆕 enhancement, performant
  - As a content admin, I want a provenance field on the document detail page so that I can note the origin and aquisition history of fragments when available. 🆕 enhancement, performant
  - As a content editor, I want there to be a notes field in the places pages so that I can add more detail about places that are hard-to-find. 🆕 enhancement, performant
  - eScriptorium line-level ingest and editor 🛠️ chore
  - As a content admin, I want to drop down a pin on a map and then be able to move the pin around so that I can manually adjust the coordinates of a place before saving the location. 🆕 enhancement, performant
  - As a content editor, I want clearer help text for the name field of the person page so I know how best to present people's names on their pages 🆕 enhancement, performant
  - Invalid lat/long coordinates are allowed for Places, but don't persist 🐛 bug, performant
  - As a content editor, I want to record places-to-places relationship on the place page and on the document detail page, so that I can track ambiguity. 🆕 enhancement, performant
  - Bracket and other character search is functioning unpredictably 🐛 bug, performant
ppa-django (0 points, 6 issues)
- development (0 points, 6 issues)