Posts in 2020
  • Nov 30 - Dec 12, 2020

    Monday, December 14, 2020 in 2020

    This iteration we paused active software development on the Geniza project, although design research and work on sitemap and continued, along with planning for the next phase. We shifted development efforts to an infrastructure migration for the CDH …

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  • Nov 16 - 27, 2020

    Monday, November 30, 2020 in 2020

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    This was our last scheduled iteration for working on Geniza prototyping, so we made a push to finish as much of that work as possible before we switch to other things. Work completed includes a report of name extracted from metadata descriptions, to …

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  • Nov 2 - 14, 2020

    Monday, November 16, 2020 in 2020

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    This iteration we made substantial progress on our Geniza search prototyping, most notably implementing the first two steps towards a prototype of the holistic search interface that Gissoo has been designing. We also made some updates and fixed some …

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  • Oct 19 - 31, 2020

    Monday, November 02, 2020 in 2020

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    Very pleased to report that this past iteration we finally published Issue One of Startwords. The velocity charts below reflect the effort to get this out the door, including completion of design and implementation on an experimental piece and a …

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  • Oct 5 - 15, 2020

    Monday, October 19, 2020 in 2020

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    Last iteration we put a lot of time and effort into Startwords as we get close to our issue 1 deadline and launch date, although that’s not reflected in the number of tickets closed on GitHub. We’re continuing to make progress on Geniza …

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  • Sep 21 - Oct 2, 2020

    Monday, October 05, 2020 in 2020

    This iteration marked our official start of work on the Geniza research partnership, now that the charter has been signed. We made progress on data modeling and a preliminary search prototype, but since none of those tasks have been completed they …

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  • Sep 7 - 18, 2020

    Monday, September 21, 2020 in 2020

    This iteration included work to complete cdh-web version 2.7, which consisted of maintenance upgrades and a few helpful features for fall; maintenance and bug fixes on PPA, including a refactor to use in-house Solr library parasolr, removing a …

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  • Aug 24 - Sep 4, 2020

    Tuesday, September 08, 2020 in 2020

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    The last iteration we continued to spend time on project maintenance and updates. Closed issues on Startwords and the pucas release are continuing and closing out work from the previous iterations. Active work this iteration that is incomplete and …

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  • Aug 10 - 20, 2020

    Monday, August 24, 2020 in 2020

    Not a lot of development work reported on GitHub because the primary team focus continues to be planning the new Research Partnership project. This iteration also included time spent on two internal project retrospectives (Shakespeare and Company …

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  • Jul 20 - Aug 7, 2020

    Monday, August 10, 2020 in 2020

    Three week iteration due to multiple team member week-long vacations. Less development work than usual because the primary team focus has been on planning the new Research Partnership project.

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