2015 Global BHL Meeting

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6th Global BHL Meeting DRAFT AGENDA & PLANNING

Brasil

Please register at:
http://eventos.scielo.org/gbhl/en/

NOTE: It looks to me like Abel has scheduled all day on Thursday for global BHL business meeting (in the above document) along with 2-5 on Wednesday. It does not seem like there is an expectation that we repeat the 9-10 session on Thursday.

Day 1: May 5

Travel Day / Arrive

PLEASE NOTE: BHL global attendees will be picked up at 730 at Ibis Sao Paulo for all days of the meeting. For the Saturday field trip, pick up is at the same place but 830 AM.
Ibis São Paulo – Paulista (has WIFI)
http://www.ibis.com/gb/hotel-3735-ibis-sao-paulo-paulista/index.shtml
Av. Paulista, 2355, 0 – Jardins – São Paulo – SP – Brasil
Tel.: (11) 3523-3000 (11) 3523-3000 – Fax: (11) 3523-3030

Day 2: May 6: Instituto Butantan

0800-0900 Welcome, Coffee, Registration

0900 - 1030: Public Session: Biodiversity Scientific Literature

Welcome: Marcelo de Franco, Vice Director of Instituto Butantan; Nancy Gwinn, Chair of the BHL Member Council, and Abel Packer, Director of SciELO/FAPESP Program

Biodiversity Heritage Library (30 minutes)
- Introduction to the BHL (Nancy E. Gwinn)
- Global BHL (Connie Rinaldo & Ely Wallis)
Instituto Butantan: historical and present contribution to the progress of scientific knowledge (Marcelo de Franco) (30 minutes)

1030 - 1230: Guided visit to Instituto Butantan Museums and Premises (gbhl members only)

12-30-1400 Lunch

1400-1700 gBHL business meeting

Report from each global node

10 minute presentation per node. 1400-1530
Nodes reporting (TBC): US/UK, Brazil, Africa, Australia, Europe, China?, Egypt, Singapore?, Mexico

Report from the 2015 Chicago BHL Members' meeting (Connie Rinaldo) (15 minutes - to 1545)
Report from EOL Executive meeting (Nancy E. Gwinn) (15 minutes - to 1600)

Day 3: May 7: Instituto Butantan 9-1730 Global Business meeting

Review status of "big ideas" from 2014 (Ely Wallis) (Discussion - 45 minutes - to 945) The Big Ideas from 2014 are shown in this document: gBHL2014-big-ideas

1000 - 1100 hr (Sao Paulo Time)

Review of 2014 technical recommendations; this will focus on current portal updates/move (Martin)
Internet Archive Interactions (Martin covers US/UK issues)
Update on grant funded projects and new grants (William and/or Martin)
-- Art of Life
-- Mining Biodiversity
-- Purposeful Gaming
-- CLIR DPLA Hub
-- Smithsonian Field Books
Biodiversity Library Exhibitions & Global Treasures Exhibit (Jíří Frank & Connie Rinaldo) (Report - 15 minutes - to 1045
Why be global? What are the goals (Connie Rinaldo) (Introduction to prompt discussion - 20 minutes - to 11:05)
Global nodes as affiliates or members? (Connie Rinaldo) (Discussion - 20 minutes - to 1130)
BHL 10th Anniversary celebrations (Nancy E. Gwinn) (Report or discussion? - 20 minutes - to 1150)
Global BHL Meeting in 2016 and beyond (Ely and Coordinating Committee) (Discussion - 20 minutes - to 12:10)
Review of actions and thanks (Nancy E. Gwinn as secretary) (Report - to 1230-1300)

LUNCH together somewhere 1-3pm

AFTERNOON TOURS of Instituto de Botânica if we finish early?

Day 4: May 8: BHL Day FAPESP (Sao Paulo)
Please register at: http://eventos.scielo.org/gbhl/en/

0900 - 1030
Welcome: Carlos A. Joly, Director of Biota/FAPESP Program, UNICAMP, IPBES; Nancy Gwinn, Chair of the BHL Member Council, and Abel Packer, Director of SciELO/FAPESP Program

Introduction to the BHL (Nancy E. Gwinn)
Global BHL: state of development and collaboration (Connie Rinaldo & Ely Wallis)
Biodiversity in Brazil Jose Sabino, Universidade Anhanguera-Unidep
Interfaces to inform biodiversity public policies, Carlos A. Joly, Director of Biota/FAPESP Program

1030 – 1100 Coffee Break

1100 – 1200

Information Systems in Biodiversity, Global, National and local (Panel Discussion)
- GBIF (Tim Hirsch: can give the talk in Portuguese)
- Brazilian Information System on Biodiversity Keila Elizabeth M. Juarez, Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação
- SinBiota: Biodiversity Information of the State of São Paulo, Tiago Egger Moellwald Duque Estrada, Executive Manager-Biota/FAPESP Program
- The BHL and the state of the art in digitization (Martin Kalfatovic)

1230-1 Closing
Lunch somewhere together

Day 5: May 9

Depart / Travel/Other activities
Field trip to the Botanical Institute from 0900h until 1200h. Instituto de Botânica http://www.ibot.sp.gov.br/jardim/)

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Venues

FAPESP (Sao Paulo). http://www.fapesp.br/en/
Instituto Butantan http://www.butantan.gov.br/Paginas/default.aspx
Instituto de Botânica http://www.ibot.sp.gov.br/jardim/

Attendees / Travel Arrangements

BHL Africa/ SANBI

Name of Attendee	Institution	Arriving	Departing	Accommodations	Travelling by

Nancy Gwinn	BHL / Smithsonian	May 4	May 10	Pousada Zilah	Plane

Eric Chin	BHL Singapore
Ely Wallis	BHL Au / Museum Victoria	May 5	May 9	Pousada Zilah	Plane
Connie Rinaldo	BHL/Harvard U.	May 5	May 10	Pousada Zilah	Plane
Jiri Frank	BHL Europe / National Museum	May 2 Rio/ May 5 Sao Paulo	May 10	Central Park Jardins	Plane
Anne-Lise Fourie	BHL Africa / SANBI

Magdy Nagi	BHL Egypt	May 5	May 9	Ibis Sao Paulo Paulista	Plane
Kamal Micheal	BHL Egypt/Bibliotheca Alexandrina	May 4	May 9	Ibis Sao Paulo Paulista	Plane
Cui Jinzhong	BHL China
Abel L. Packer	BHL SciELO

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