What people are working on

Edward:

• Importing Amazon data. (sample) (2008-01-10, 17, 24)
  
• Matching authors between Amazon and MARC. (sample) (2007-12-13)
  
• Some authors have multiple records, need to merge them
  
• Fix bad Archive MARC data

Anand:

• Fastcgi Replication (2009-04-08 - )
  
• Streamline JSON dump/book dump generation
  
• Simplify deployment

Paul:

• Get search into Nagios/monitoring
  
• Import the rest of full text
  
• Speed up import scripts
  
• Search API for David Strauss
  
• Fix little bugs from launchpad
  
• Highlighting search terms in flipbook
  
• Launch: Connect search engine to infobase
  
• Discussing hardware with Ralf. (2008-02-07)
  
• Talking to Oregon State about getting their records. (2008-02-07)
  
• Getting copyright moreinfo pages working. (2007-12-06, 01-24, 02-07)
  
• Including more full-text books in the index. (2007-01-17, 24)
  
  • a little hacking, then couple days or so of CPU time
• Away: jury duty (Done: 2008-01-22)
  
• Combining full-text search index. (Done: 2008-01-03)
  
• Getting pdregistry.ca search imported. (Done: 2008-01-02)

Rebecca:

• New Book Reader Mockups (08.07.08)
  
• Scan-on-demand UI Improvements and testing
  
• Open Library Shelf View (Collections)
  
• Development of new Developer Area

Aaron:

• New ISBN crawl. (2008-01-24, 31)
  
• Meeting with various groups. (2008-01-24, 31)
  
• Speaking at Metaweb. (Done: 2008-01-12)
  
• ASIN spider. (Done: 2008-01-11)
  
• Launching theinfo.org. (Done: 2008-01-11)
  
• Uploading [[docs/data|scattered data]] into items. (2007-12-19)
  
• Repairing crawlers. (2007-12-19)
  
• Trying to connect with ulib.org. (2007-12-19)
  
• Visiting ALA (Done: 2008-01-09 to 14)
  
• Writing talk for ALA. (Done: 2008-01-03 to 12)
  
• Track down Talis data. (Done: 2008-01-03 to 17)
  
• Writing script to upload items. (Done: 2007-12-19)

Karen:

• looking at newly received MARC inputs, as soon as someone can get me bits of the files
  
• ACTION: Talk to UCLA about a catalog. (2008-02-07)
  
• Consulting with Edward as necessary. (2008-01-03, 17, 31, 02-07)
  
• Working on FRBRization algorithms. (2008-01-17)

reJon:

• URGENT: Working on pdregistry.ca and getting that live for Access Copyright review
  
• Planning out next 6 months
  
• getting CC tech. team involved on the project in 2008

Alexis:

• Quarterly report for LSTA grant due April 30 (4-16-08)
  
• Re-apply for LSTA grant for next year's funding due May 9 (4-16-08)
  
• Arranging next OL meeting 5/30/08 for librarians (4-16-08)
  
• Finding translation candidate. (2008-01-24)
  
• Arranging OL meeting. (Done: 2008-01-17, 24, 31, 02-07)
  
• Bugging ops about new machines (Done: 2007-01-24)
  
• Getting Elsevier ONIX. (Done: 2008-01-17)

Brewster:

• Boston College Library might be interested in donating. (2008-02-07)
  
• Talking to the Google folks; proceed with caution. (2008-02-07)
  
• Having positive discussions with OCLC. (2008-01-03, 31, 02-07)
  
• Could start with a subset of monograph records.
  
• Get new hardware. (2008-01-03, 31)
  
• Getting a producer for archive.org, openlibrary.org (2008-01-31, )
  
• Getting IA to fund larger catalog team. (2008-01-03, 31)
  
  • Putting recruiter on it.
• Putting together another grant proposal for California state. (2008-01-03)
  
  • Talking to Chip Nilges.
• Getting over a cold. (Done: 2008-01-03)

Simon:

• Simon finishing semester over next couple of weeks, prototype by end of June
  
• ACTION: Sound out the UNC librarian about their records. (2008-02-07)
  
• Reliable messaging system for scribes (2008-02-07)
  
• Aiming for February 22 for SOD.
  
• Writing a simple backend resolver for SOD. (2008-01-17)
  
• Scribe is at UNC.

Mang:

• Getting up to speed!