2014 Global BHL Meeting
5th Global BHL Meeting 2014
Melbourne and Environs
31 January - 2 February 2014
Objectives
- Report from each gBHL Member
- Elect new officers
- Decide topics to solve during the Technical Meeting.
Schedule / Venues
- 2014.01.31 (Friday): Melbourne | Museum Victoria
- 2014.02.01 (Saturday): Lorne | Mantra Resort
- 2014.02.02 (Sunday): Lorne | Mantra Resort
- 2014.02.03 (Monday): Return to Melbourne
- 2014.02.04 (Tuesday): Free day or VALA Conference
- 2014.02.05 (Wednesday): VALA Conference: BHL Symposium
- 2014.02.06 (Thursday): Return or Free time
Agenda
Day 1: 2014.01.31 (Friday): BHL Day at Museum Victoria: venue is "Treetops" at Melbourne Museum
Notes about the venue
The meeting is scheduled to start at 9:30, but feel free to arrive from 9:15. The Museum will be closed when you arrive so you will be let in by a security guard. I will also be there to meet you and direct you to our Bunjilaka meeting space.
Agenda (from Ely Wallis):
- 9:30 Welcome to Country - Caroline Martin, Manager of Bunjilaka
- 9:45 Walk up through our Indigenous garden "Milarri" to our meeting venue, called Treetops.
- 9:50 Welcome from Tim Hart, Acting CEO
- Morning session: information sharing session about BHL global activities. Each node to provide a description of activities (can be a version of their presentation the following week at VALA)
- 12:30-1:30 Catered lunch
- 1:30-3 Tour of MV library, rare books collection and BHL digitisation activities
- 3-4:30 Led discussion on ‘tricky topics’ for digital literature projects - grey literature, individual researcher reprint collections, recent in copyright literature etc.
- 4:30-5 Tour of Melbourne Museum
- 5-7 Welcome Reception, Treetops
At 7pm, some delegates may want to move to a different part of the Museum to view a temporary exhibition about the making of James Bond films. See the website:
http://designing007melbourne.com/
Day 2: 2014.02.01 (Saturday): Lorne
- Updates from each of the Global Nodes:
- BHL US/UK: Martin Kalfatovic. Item 1 on Saturday.
- BHL Africa: Item 3 on Saturday
- BHL Europe: see Friday presentation
- BHL SciELO: see Friday presentation
- BHL China: see Friday presentation
- BHL Australia: see Friday presentation
- Social Media/Grants update from US/UK (Connie Rinaldo) Item 2 on Saturday
Day 3: 2014.02.02 (Sunday): Lorne
- Report from Encyclopedia of Life Executive Nancy Gwinn, item 1 on Sunday
- gBHL Program Management: Martin Kalfatovic
- Whiteboard list of topics to discuss and prioritise actions. See image. Ely Wallis and Martin Kalfatovic
- BHL “Biodiversity Library Exhibitions” project: Jiri Frank
- Election of Officers: Martin Kalfatovic
- Review current by-laws: Ely Wallis proposes referral to Executive to review.
- Technical Group Planning of tasks (prioritize and discuss for later technical meeting)
- Integration:
- Synchronization of content: European, Egyptian and Chinese content in IA?
- Portal:
- Translation of current Portal to other languages
- Provide common Portal services that each Node can access and an optional customizable layer for each Node needs.
- APIs development
- BHL Technical Meeting
AFTERNOON SESSION
- BHL 2.0: What does this mean to the group?
- Big Question/Idea Discussion
- Can BHL or gBHL answer or rise some big questions?
- Big data
- Historical taxons discovery
- Biodiversity - assistance for the building of predictive models of biodiversity
- Linking of the historical data with recent publications
Meeting Notes
Fifth Global BHL Meeting, Lorne, Australia Feb 1-2, 2014
Confirmed Attendees / Travel Arrangements
BHL Africa/ SANBI
Name of Attendee
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Institution
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Arriving
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Departing
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Melbourne Accommodations
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Travelling by?
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Use column later
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Martin Kalfatovic
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BHL / Smithsonian
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30 Jan 14
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6 Feb 14
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Marriott (1st leg); Mantra (2nd leg); Ibis on Little Bourke Street (3rd leg)
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Air
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Nancy Gwinn
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BHL / Smithsonian
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William Ulate
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BHL / MOBOT
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Ely Wallis
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BHL Au / Museum Victoria
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Connie Rinaldo
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BHL/Harvard U.
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30 Jan 14
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6 Feb 14
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Best Western (1st leg); Mountjoy Parade, Mantra (2nd leg); Best Western (3rd leg)
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Air
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Jiri Frank
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BHL-Europe / National Museum
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30 Jan 14
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15 Feb 14
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Mercure; Mantra (did not received any confirmation yet); Pegasus; Tasmania
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Air
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Anne-Lise
Fourie
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BHL Africa / SANBI
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30/01/14
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7/01/14
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Ibis on Little Bourke Street(1st leg); Mantra (2nd leg); Ibis on Little Bourke Street (3rd leg)
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Air
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Lui Fenghong
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BHL China
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30 Jan 2014
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6 Feb 2014
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Royal Gardens (1st leg); Mantra (2nd leg); Royal Gardens (3rd leg)
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Air
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Cui Jinzhong
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BHL China
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30 Jan 2014
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6 Feb 2014
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Royal Gardens (1st leg); Mantra (2nd leg); Royal Gardens (3rd leg)
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Abel L. Packer
Fabiana Montanari
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BHL SciELO
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29 Jan 2014 18:35h
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3 Feb 2014 23:10h
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Best Western Plus (1st leg); Mantra (2nd leg)
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Air
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Suggested Accommodations (from Ely Wallis)
Here are some accommodation options for the BHL Global meeting next year. I’ve only picked out a few places where I know visitors to the museum have stayed in the past. But if you look on Google Maps for ‘accommodation near Melbourne Museum’ you’ll see that there are many, many options. The Museum and the venue for the VALA conference are at diagonally opposite ends of the CBD but there are public transport options (trams 95, 96) that go between the two, so it will be possible to stay in one place and reach both venues if you don’t mind negotiating public transport. The tram trip between the two plus waiting and walking at either end will take about 30 minutes.
- Quest Apartments, Royal Gardens are across the road from Melbourne Museum (1 minute walk). See http://www.questapartments.com.au/Accommodation/62/australia/melbourne_cbd_fringe/quest_royal_gardens/welcome.aspx
- The Nunnery, is almost across the road from Melbourne Museum (2 minute walk). Chris Freeland and Martin Kalfatovic have stayed there before. Quirky! http://www.nunnery.com.au/
- The Metropole Hotel Apartments is about a 5-10 minute walk to Melbourne Museum and is at the top end of one of the interesting eating and shopping strips of Melbourne, called Brunswick Street. http://www.metropole.org/
- Brooklyn Arts Hotel is about 15 minutes walk from Melbourne Museum. Ed Rodley has stayed there. Also quirky. http://www.brooklynartshotel.com.au/
- Quest Gordon Place, at the top end of Chinatown. Melbourne has an extensive Chinatown precinct – see http://chinatownmelbourne.com.au/ It may interest our friends from China to stay close to there. It would be a 10-15 minute walk to Melbourne Museum.
- http://www.questapartments.com.au/Accommodation/438/Australia/Melbourne_CBD/Quest_Gordon_Place_/Types.aspx
- Best Western Plus Travel-Inn, is close to our Italian precinct of Lygon Street and about a 10 minute walk to Melbourne Museum. http://www.thetravelinn.com.au/the-travel-inn-accommodation-melbourne.php
- Mantra on the Park, is on the edge of the CBD and a 5 minute walk through a park to Melbourne Museum. http://www.mantra.com.au/victoria/melbourne-and-surrounds/melbourne/accommodation/hotels/mantra-on-the-park/
- Hotel Grand Chancellor, is further into the CBD and a 15 minute walk to Melbourne Museum. It’s close to Chinatown, but not in Chinatown. http://www.grandchancellorhotels.com/au/melbourne/
- The Hotel Windsor, is definitely not the budget option, but a lovely place to stay. It would be a tram ride to Melbourne Museum or about a 20 minute walk. http://www.thehotelwindsor.com.au/
