2009 Architecture Meeting
2009 Architecture Meeting March 9-10, Woods Hole
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Minutes
Attendees (alph by last name):
- Cryer, Phil (MOBOT)
- Arrival: March 8, AA 890, 5:25pm
- Departure: March 11, AA 1809, 6:10pm
- deVeer, Joe (MCZ)
- Freeland, Chris (MOBOT)
- Arrival: March 8, AA 890, 5:25pm
- Departure: March 11, AA 1809, 6:10pm
- Furfey, John (MBL)
- Garnett, Tom (BHL)
- Arrival: March 8 US Airway 2030 12:49 - will drive to Woods Hole
- Departure: March 11 US Airway 2043 5pm - will drive from Woods Hole
- Hamed, Ahmed (MBL)
- Arrival: Sunday, March 8, 4:40 pm in Providence, Delta 6330
- Departure: Wed. March 11, 8:15 am from Providence, US Airways 1123
- Kalfatovic, Martin (SIL)
- Arrival: March 8, AA 4779, 11:05 am; driving with Tom
- Departure: March 11, AA 4584, 3:00 pm, Peter Pan
- Leary, Patrick (EOL/MBL)
- Lichtenberg, Mike (MOBOT)
- Arrival: March 8, AA 890, 5:25pm
- Departure: March 11, AA 1809, 6:10pm
- Lipscomb, Bianca (SIL)
- Arrival: March 8, Airtran 817, 11:49am
- Departure: March 11, Airtran 402, 5:30pm
- Mignault, John (NYBG)
- Arrival: March 8, late afternoon/early evening (driving)
- Departure: March 11 (driving)
- Moyers, Chris (MOBOT)
- Arrival: March 8, AA 890, 5:25pm
- Departure: March 11, AA 1809, 6:10pm
- Norton, Cathy (MBLWHOIL)
- Patterson, David (EOL/MBL)
- Pilsk, Suzanne (SIL)
- Arrival: March 8, AA 4779, 11:05
- Departure: March 11, AA 4584, 3:00
- Rinaldo, Connie (MCZ)
- Arrival: March 8 late afternoon
- Departure: March 10 after lunch
- Scaife, Bernard (NHM)
- Arrival: Mar 7th BA213, 13:10
- Departure: Mar 11th BA214, 21:20
- Scholz, Henning (MfN Berlin)
- Arrival: March 7, AF332, 1:15pm
- Departure: March 10, AF337, 6:30pm
- Smales, Adrian (NHM)
- Arrival: Mar 7th BA213, 13:10
- Departure: Mar 11th BA214, 21:20
- Maggie Rioux (WHOI) Local
Travel & Reimbursement
Travel & reimbursement info here
Please note that the drawbridge on Water Street remains closed. A pedestrian bridge is available - following the painted arrows on the sidewalk and the chain link fencing. Drivers will need to detour around Eel Pond.
Bus Schedule to Logan Airport (BOS)
Want to print your boarding pass for the trip home? Public computers and printers are available in the Library Lobby on the second floor of the Lillie Building and on the first floor of the Swope Building.
Accommodations:
Swope Dorm -
MBL Campus Map
7 MBL ST
Woods Hole, MA 02543
If you are arriving after 4pm, Swope will be closed. Please follow the directions on the emergency call box next to the Swope front door to contact the Watchstaff who will let you in.
Housing questions - contact Diane at
drielinger@mbl.edu
Breakfast and lunch will be in the upstairs Main Dining Room in the Swope building.
Meeting Location:
Room 103 of the Lillie Laboratory -
MBL Campus Map
WiFi Access:
Guest accounts are available throughout the MBL campus.
Social Networking Tag: BHLArch09
Agenda
Sun March 8 - Dinner
- Captain Kidd - 77 Water Street - map
- Cathy will be there around 7 pm. If you wish to eat earlier or later, please use the secret password.
Start - 7am
- 7 - 8:30am Breakfast @ Main Dining Room (2nd floor Swope)
- 8:45 - 9am Arrive/settle @ MBLWHOI Library
Morning Session - 9am (coffee break available at 10:30) - Lillie Room 103
1) Intro
- Welcoming Remarks
- Housekeeping Details
- Statement of Purpose
- Introductions
2) Review
3) Development Priorities
4) BHL-Europe
Lunch - 12pm
- 12:00 - 1:30 Main Dining Room (2nd floor Swope)
Afternoon Session - 1:30pm (coffee break available at 3:00) - Lillie Room 103
5) Scanning Priorities - "How do we decide what to scan?"
- Title disambiguation and community indices
- TL2, BPH, ZooRecord, Index Animalium
- Protologues from nomenclators/specialists
- Grouping/prioritizing from specialist bibliographies
- User requests
- Member library ILL analysis
6) Content Acquisition - "How does it get into BHL?"
- BHL-Europe
- What does BHL already to avoid duplication of scanning?
- What documents on standards/specifications/guidelines are ready by May 11 to share with BHL-Europe partners and to control/focus the initial discussions on best practice methods?
- How do we align the work of BHL and BHL-Europe most effectively (tasks/expertise, policies,...)?
- Deduping tools improvement
- Integration of the serial bidding
- Integration of monographs from other IA materials
- Funneling of missing pieces of runs to others
- Multiple metadata records for same scan: structure?
- Open Library's multi-level merge: http://www.kcoyle.net/merge.html
- Other Repositories
- "The Orange Bag Problem"
- IA scanning partners like CDL
- AnimalBase
- Madrid
- BioOne, Wiley & other publishers backfiles
- Mechanisms for ingest
- What is workflow?
- Define a package for ingest/export
- Generic METS wrapper for a scanned book
- Existing Google Doc
- BHL Article Repository
7) Content Management - "How do we manage it once it's in?"
- Insertions - adding missed pages, connecting plates scanned as separates, etc.
- Cleaning up NYBG, AMNH, & MCZ (others?) metadata inside or outside IA
- General editing of metadata in the portal and ramifications of changes
- Portal Admin editing: specs requests
- Wiki for end-user text correction
Dinner - 7pm
Tues March 10
Start - 7am
- 7 - 8:30am Breakfast @ Main Dining Room (2nd floor Swope)
- 8:45 - 9am Arrive/settle @ MBLWHOI Library
Morning Session - 9am (coffee break available at 10:30) - Lillie Room 103
0) Review Action items from Monday : 9 am to 9:30 am
- Review and revise action items, decisions, parking lot
1) Content Delivery
- Portal developments
- PDF functions
- pdf construction (format of the pdf; speed of delivery; OCR)
- Search divisions monographs vs serials
- Other access points - keyword in metadata
- Delivery viewer short cuts: thumbnails for quick browse
- Discovery bibliography structure and results delivery
- Connection to Namebank and integration possibilities?
- Exporting functions: metadata, full text, plates only, etc.
- Reporting error forms for metadata, missing pages, etc.
- Reporting out by subdivisions for libraries to "take"- export function
- Overall Layout/UI redesign
- Operational status indicator/messaging
- Improvements to Search/Browse
- Common Name Search
- Multilingual Interface
- Book viewer
- Chris' views on BHL FlipBook
- BHL's is not standalone
- IA's is standalone, on top of their content
- LC is funded by Sloane to make improvements
- How does this fit into plans for BHL, BHL-Europe?
- what do we want/need to contribute, change, or ignore?
- Finding/ Delivering images - description, location, downloading. Thumbnail for quick identifying. Accompanying metadata
- djatoka feature enhancements
- JPEG2000 book viewer
- Perfomance issues
- bleeding edge stuff
- APIs
- Names Service & data exports - existing
- Citation Resolver
- Title Resolver
- Personal Name matching
- LSID
- NY Times Article API
- EOL links into BHL
- Data mining vs. targeted links, like protologues
- BHL-Europe links to Europeana
- Any implications to BHL global?
- Emerging Platforms
- Open Source ILS front end
2) Hardware Infrastructure
- Existing & Recently Proposed
- Defining the infrastructure scope and scale
- BnF (France) - SPAR
- Can we learn from them?
- Similar requirements or not?
- How big is big?
- Throughput, transactions, volumes
- Redundant Repositories
- Production Mirrors
- Role of service providers
- S3, Cloud Storage, Cloud Computing, Cloud Preservation and DuraSpace
- Resources/Capabilities in hand
Lunch - 12pm 12:00 - 1:30 Main Dining Room (2nd floor Swope)
- Breakout topic
- Coordination
- Papers & Conferences: need a little more coordination and maybe even division of labor concerning who goes to what and more importantly who takes responsibility for particular broad areas between BHL and BHL-Europe.
- Coordination of technology implementation given multiple grant funded efforts
- How will we *really* divide up work among MacArthur, Moore, EU funding for BHL, BHL-E?
Afternoon Session - 1:30pm (coffee break available at 3:00) - Lillie Room 103
3) Resolvers/Disambiguation
- Title Resolver
- What is OCLC, full title, ISBN for “Sys. Nat.”
- Handles
- DOIs
- Personal Names
- LSID
- eISBN/OCLC numbers for new digital manifestations
4) Data Mining
- Name Finding (mechanics of)
- BHL Proof of Concept Demo
- Automated markup
- PennState/Moore option
- GoldenGate
- Other research projects with new institutions?
- Ranking & Relevancy
5) Outreach
- Emerging Social Networks
- Facebook
- Flickr
- Twitter
- LibraryThing
- SecondLife
- Exhibitions Spaces for BHL content
- Use of Omeka to put BHL content into a different space
6) Commercial possibilities
- Print on demand
- Entire books
- Illustrations
- Sell value-added PDFs
- Use of third-party commercial sites (e.g. Cafe Press) to create "BHL Shop" for products
- Image licensing
- Revenue sharing among partners
7) Recap
Informal Dinner with Stragglers
Wed March 11 - BHLDev+
