Agenda 12 June Mtg.

Original propsed agenda in MS Word
bhlworkshop.agenda.doc

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*Agenda updated 6/9/06*
June 12, 2006
8:30 am - 5:00 pm
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
Kerby Room NHB CEG - 310


8:30 Coffee, tea and continental breakfast
SIL staff meet and greet visitors at 10th and Constitution Avenue entrance.

9:00 Welcome, introductions, thanks
Tom Garnett

• Update and status of BHL – membership, funding, short term goals, long term goals.

9:45 Collections analysis to date
Marcia Adams, SIL

• Review of the data collected from three libraries.
• Best Practices suggestions.

Bill Carney, OCLC

• Data analysis and review
• More metadata from other libraries
• BHL metadata and maintaining a link to Open WorldCat

10:45 Break

11:00 Functional requirements for the BHL Metadata repository
Chris Freeland, MoBOT

• Presentation on functionality of BHL Metadata Repository

Mark McKinney, Luratech/CCS

• Presentation and demo:
• Progress on projects dealing with PDF OCR and XML Structure Maps including page number recognition.

David Remsen, UBio/MBL/WHOI

• Presentation and demo on taxonomic intelligence

Discussion and comments

12:30 Lunch Provided

1:30 Functional Requirements (Continued)
Martin Kalfatovic, SIL

• What data and metadata types are required for the BHL?

Sebastian Hammer, IndexData

• Presentation on Internet Archive workflow and database design issues

Comments, discussion

2:15 How can we put this all together –
Brewster Kahle, Internet Archive
Tom Garnett, SIL
Graham Higley, NHL

• Completing Metadata Repository Functional requirements.
• Scanning workflow, citation resolver, abbreviation resolver, database hosting.

3:15 Break

3:30 Future needs of the BHL Metadata Repository
Neil Thomson

• Register of Intent;
• GUIDs and the connection to outside of BHL;
• Rights management metadata and related issues
• Relationships with other sources of taxonomic data and indexing, e.g. Zoo Record, ITIS, Index Kewensis, Tropicos, etc.

Tom Garnett

• Encyclopedia of Life connections

4:00 Final thoughts – Final output

• Structure of Functional Requirements Document
• Preliminary Decisions (what do now, what do later?)
• Assignments, milestones, and dates

5:00 Adjournment and Thanks
Tom Garnett