2008 Architecture Meeting
2008 Architecture Meeting March 19-20, 2008 Boston
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Minutes
Attendees:
- Freeland, Chris (MOBOT)
- Arrive: March 17, US Airways 3803, 4:31pm
- Depart:March 21, US Airways 4035, 3:15pm
- Garnett, Tom (SIL)
- Arrive: March 18, US Airways 2036, 3:59
- Depart: March 21, US Airways 2045, 6pm
- Higley, Graham (NHM)
- Kalfatovic, Martin (SIL)
- Arrive: March 17, American Airlines 4782, 4:50 pm
- Depart: March 24, American Airlines 4574, 5:15 pm
- Leary, Patrick (EOL/MBL)
- Lichtenberg, Mike (MOBOT)
- Mignault, John (NYBG)
- Arrive: March 18, Amtrak 172 Regional Service, 3:15 pm
- Depart: March 21
- Morris, Paul (Harvard)
- Norton, Cathy (MBLWHOI)
- Payette, Sandy (Fedora Commons)
- Rinaldo, Connie (Harvard)
- Scholz, Henning (Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
- Schopf, Jennifer (EOL)
- Thomson, Neil (NHM)
- Warnement, Judy (Harvard) [sitting in as time allows]
- Wendler, Robin (Harvard)
Hotel Accommodations:
The Sheraton Hotel Commander
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16 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
617.547.4800
Meeting Location:
Agassiz Room, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University
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walking directions from hotel
WiFi Access:
- If you want to have internet access while you are in the Museum of Comparative Zoology at the Biodiversity Heritage Library Architecture or Directors meeting, you will need to provide the following to Katie Parodi (kparodi@oeb.harvard.edu) by March 14:
- Name
- Date(s) needed
- Operating system (Windows/Mac/Linux, etc.
- Mac address (i.e. the ethernet address of the machine)
Tues March 18 - Dinner (Optional)
- Meet in hotel lobby at 7pm.
- Many restaurants close; groups can form by cuisine or restaurant choices. View map
Wed March 19 - Current & Short Term Architecture
Start
- 8 - 9 am Registration, setup & breakfast (catered)
- 9 - 9:30 Welcome & Introductions
State of the Application
- Review of Deliverables for EOL & Moore - PDF
- Review of current BHL architecture & site
EOL Integration
- TaxonFinder -> BHL - > Name Services -> EOL
- Links to bibliographies - example
Fedora
- Fedora Integration - What's EOL experience?
- Fedora + Topaz = Fedora Commons at end of summer 08.
- PLoS hosting BHL Content
Content Delivery
- Interface
- JP2 vs PDF vs JPG
- Extending functionality with bibliographies
- Services
- Name Services
- Citation Resolution
- Titles Resolver
- Identifiers
- Bowker ISBNs for electronic titles
- DOI
- Handles
- COinS
- OCLC
LUNCH
- 12:30 (catered sandwiches, etc.)
Curating BHL Content
- Admin Interfaces
- Articles
- Articles (applying, correcting)
- Automated Markup (PennState, INOTAXA, and GoldenGate)
- Build list of articles from journal indices;
- Rekey tables of contents
Dinner
- 7 pm Dinner at the Harvard Club
Thurs March 20 - Long Term Architecture
Start
- 8:30 - 9 am breakfast (catered)
BHL Europe & Other International Partners
- BHL-Europe - background and politics (inc. EDLNet)
- AnimalBase: BHL relationship with and pros/cons of scanning overlap
- Non-Internet Archive ingest
- International interfaces
- Multiple languages - content, OCR and Portal
Storage
- Redundant storage
- Mirrored sites
- LOCKSS
- OAIS
LUNCH
- 12:30 (catered sandwiches, etc.)
Extending BHL / fundable projects
- OPAC front end (does BHL need a "library-like" front end? would it be worth investigating an open source OPAC product such as LibLime to put on top of BHL for more traditional access?)
- XMP, EXIF metadata in documents - bundle metadata in object.
- LSID
- OpenOCR
- OpenSource JP2 Server
- PDF/A
- Data mining
Development Desiderata
- From EOL, from researchers, from public
- keep a running list of needs & wants during meeting.
- Review & codify with assignments & timeline.
Close
- Summary
- Action items/assignment of tasks**