Thank you to Béatrice who has prepared these meeting minutes !
Atending: Loïc Charles, , Guillaume Daudin, Béatrice Dedinger, Pierre Gervais, Paul Girard, Ivan Ledezma, Guillaume Plique, Grégory Tible.
1. Exploration tools
The Toflit sprint has led to the creation of three “views” by the developer team:
- Metadata view:
- Allows exploring the availability of data
- Number of directions by year
- Available data by direction, and local/national
- Indicator view:
- Allows tracking trade flows
- The user can explore the results with two graphs: number of flows by year, total value of flows by year (up to six curves by graph)
- Question: histogram or curve?
- Can select among four categories: Product (different classifications) / Country / Direction / Kind (export, import, total)
- Create a new category “Source” to solve the problem of redundant flows (ex: Commerce de la Rochelle en 1750 is reported by different sources, both local and national)
- Global view:
- Allows exploring trade networks
- Global views (networks) of flows by directions / countries
- Cases where a colony appears as a Direction (when reporting) and as a country (when partner).
- Cleaning work on Directions (e.g. grands ports, petits ports)
2. Classifications
Updating the list of products (with the inclusion of Pierre’s data for example) has consequences on the whole chain from orthographic normalization to simplification and categorization.
Many cases: new items, renamed items, moved items, dropped items, new groups, splitted groups, suppressed groups (?).
– Paul and Guillaume are working on an algorithm to simplify the updating
– Pierre will finish orthographic normalization by December 19th.
– The algorithm will be written and tested before next meeting (January 8th)
3. New data
No news of Lyon.
Paul will ask Pierre for the pictures in Bayonne’s archives.
Loïc will visit Dunkerque soon.
4. Retranscriptions
Loïc believes everything can be finished in 2016.
Work done: Bordeaux, 1789 and 1792, colonies.
Work to be done: Marseille (post-1765), 1787 Eden treaty.
We need to get Gabriel’s files
Torsten will do some work on Nantes.
Laura will work three months as an auto-entrepreneur to retranscribe herself and direct the work of two of Loïc’s interns (in June and July)
5. Verification
1789/1792 and tho colonies have been treated
Bordeaux is ready : Guillaume needs to check the integrate the data
6. Budget
TOFLIT: Guillaume Plique’s contract will end at the end of January. As we might not have to pay tho «prime de précarité», we will be able to hire Grégory Tible.for a 5-month internship.
RICardo : Grégory Tible work on RICardo is coming to its end.
A new intern will be hired in February to work on RIC entities and the data visualization.
7. Meetings
The next monthly TOFLIT meeting will take place on January 8th 2016 at 9:30 am at Médialab. The next one will be on February 19th.
There will be a TOFLIT development workshop on January 27-28th
There will be a full TOFLIT meeting on January 29th. In the morning, the Médialab will present its work. In the afternoon, we will discuss research projects in the perspective of the Chicago meeting in June 2016. Researchers will present a one or two page presentation of a research project, and we will discuss, among other things, feasibility and data needs.