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2017.06.06 NDSR Minutes

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Agenda:
Present: Connie, Carolyn, Joe, Katie, Pam, Richard, Trish, Ari, Leora
Absent: Marissa, Alicia, Doug

Brief reports from residents

Katie just put out a blog post about the Wikicite conference
(https://ndsrbhl.wordpress.com/2017/06/06/the-role-of-librarians-in-wikidata-and-wikicite/)
presentations and hackathon; improve bibliographic information/citations; linked open data
Also visited the Natural History Museum of Vienna.

Pam: individual survey just about ready for review (findable on the BHL website); then submit to IRB; Poster presentation at ALA later this month

Ari: in progress: member representative interviews: flickr taggers; working with Grace; talked with Science Gossip moderators. Met with Mike to clarify tech specifications; analysis of metadata and integration; DLF best practices group;

Discussion about how projects fit in to the strategic direction of BHL (Ari will lead)
—This is an opportunity for us all to talk through what the final expectations will be.

what Ari wants out of the discussion: Should Ari talk with EC regarding strategic plans; how about other residents
DPLAFest and other residents: tensions in audiences. BHL focuses on taxonomists; maybe general outreach is not central toBHL mission? How can a digital library grow as an initiative once crowdsourcing info is available? Ari's long notes:
https://goo.gl/AliWbp

--BHL goals regarding audiences and resources
--Content decisions--Visual Resources
--Viewpoints regarding purpose of crowdsourcing, especially images

participate in strategic planning.
Katie: crowdsourcing; transcription is less undecided; Some crowdsourcing will happen with transcription--what is the best way? Also OCR correction--how get the data into BHL. Interested in the general sense of strat planning and how NDSR fits in.
Strategic Plan is a high-level document. Visual Resources, mostly
Technical meeting: What are the goals? Tech group needs to define the September meeting. Crowdsourcing, Visual Resources, feedback from users will be helpful. What users want, what we can do, what the members want.

Should Ari talk with potential users as well as current users. Reach out to Historians of Science and Artists--users on Pinterest, Flickr.twitter.
Other.