April 6, 2010 BHL Executive Committee notes

Status of planning for September Technical Workshop

Have no firm yeses from Australia and China. Chris waiting on Australia about May meeting.
ACTION: Chris will send out date, place and draft agenda with topic ideas for input.

Will have dual agenda--admin and tech. Need to check with Cathy/Holly Miller about dual agenda. Some of this can be done by MOBOt Project Coordinator, once hired.

Tom is looking for money for China and will check with Egypt.

Cornell issues (Connie)

Cornell is interested in contributing content and also have some metadata extraction tool for article info.
Mary Ochs, Director
Albert R. Mann Library
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York 14853
phone: 607-255-2285
email: mao4@cornell.edu


Attendees for BHL-E collection and metadata meeting in Vienna in May

Chris may attend but depends on Australia. Chris feels like he needs to be in Vienna because BHL-Europe is going in different directions. Suzanne and Bianca are going to Vienna. Will see if we can include some others: Matt Person, Connie, one of the botany IC members.

EOL Steering Committee and documentation

ACTION: Tom will be making a pitch for more scanning money. Will put documentation on the wiki.

IA and Moore Grant

IA is ready to send contents on servers to finish out the Moore grant. It is a Sun server which MOBOT can't take. Can MBL? Or take content and store at MOBOT and send server back.

other
International Botanical Congress (Melbourne) --Donat and Lubo asked Chris if he would like to pull symposium together about semantic enhancement of taxonomic literature: tools and ideas. Chris would be acting on behalf of BHL.

TL2: What do we need to do? Martin is drafting a proposal for 75,000 for rekeying, parsing and coding tl2 text with some money set aside for providing an online environment and this will include page-scanning from another grant. Need to provide a searchable online version. Can the parsed data go into the portal? Chris noted that these data will be the heart of Citebank, but can get this up some other way until ready for expanded citebank. Still need publisher permission but this is in progress.

Still need to look for funding for TL3

Connie is presenting a BHL poster at the UMass Medical Center E-science symposium.

The revised MOA from Australia has a lot of changes. ACTION: Tom needs to write an analysis for the Smithsonian counsel and run it by them.

Draft MOU sent to Brazil--waiting to hear. ACTION: Martin will be emailing and will mention MOU and September tech meeting.


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