Aug2017_MembersCallforAustandSing

August 3 Conference Call

This will serve as the Members' Call for both July and August
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Agenda
Review August 3 Members' Call: 08032017+Members+Call
Next Meeting: August+31+%28Executive+Committee%29
Tech Meeting: TechMeeting_Sept2017

Members' Call occurred on Aug 3 -
DPLA is creating 2 levels of membership, multi-hubs and single contributors.
For current content contributors, allowed to continue contributing at no cost.
BHL will continue as a content provider.
May negotiate as a Smithsonian governing member in the future.

19th IBC meeting.
BHL Symposium with Nura, and Dr. Xu from BHL China and Harold from University of Philippines.
Status of grandfathering in - response SciElo was very positive towards this. Have not heard anything direct from BHL China.
Dr. Xu moved from Botany to Computer Science in Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Will they remain involved? We expect so at this point.
Wai Yin would be happy to help facilitate those discussions.
Martin and Carolyn can put together an outline and Wai Yin can hold that conversation.

Strategic Planning
Jane Smith is leading the strategic planning process. Jane and Carolyn have done a first pass review, incorporating input from the Members' Meeting in March. The EC will review the draft, incorporate their changes, and share with the Members' Council. A small committee will be formed to finalize and present at the Annual Meeting.

Oak Spring
Votes are coming in; already a majority
Grace will be doing a site visit to highlight outreach

Members' Meeting
Next planning call will be with Richard and Susan (LA) on September 6 to finalize details.
Looking to incorporate more opportunities for discussion.
Will be looking for users to speak to our group, though less of a public event than in past years.
Presentations - 'peer review' for internal presentations. It can be a time-involved process to properly review and the people proposing need enough lead time as well.

EC Topics
Donations
$675 from 15 donors in the last month

BHL Europe content
Martin would like to have a working plan in place

University of Houston
Interested in collaborating on a video game via an NSF grant. BHL may provide letter of support but perhaps not much more

Brochures
Grace has designed some options for EC to review on incorporating all Member institution names

Recent meetings
Ely gave a BHL talk at Open Repositories Meeting with lots of positive responses.
Some contacts in Japan
Martin will follow up and coordinate with Tomoko

Ely went to a workshop on IIIF
Was really interesting. Put IIIF research associate in contact with Grace and Nicole for some social media.

Smithsonian will join IIIF as a full partner. Keri Thompson will be the representative.

IFLA
Wai Yin - nothing to report directly relevant to BHL
Connie delivered a nice, informative poster session.
NEG and WYP and Elaine had dinner. NEG focusing on Membership.
New president seems to be promising to take IFLA to next level with a global vision

Next MuseumNext conference being held in Brisbane. Theme is intersections, between art science, digital analog
Seems to be a lot of same presenters being selected each year.

We've been doing a lot work with George Oates in SIL, a $35,000 grant to focus on Asian American eduction using Museum-in-a-Box

Technical Things
Combination Meeting - NDSR mentors and residents to report on their research to date on recommendations on BHL version 2
That will occur September 12 - 14.
Do look at agenda TechMeeting_Sept2017 and send any questions to Martin or Carolyn
Looking at technical vision and how that ties to strategic plan
How we want to prioritize the BHL Developer's time
Ely and Nicole to send questions and topics you'd like to discuss

Chrome add-on, we discussed on Tech Call. Mike thought it was feasible. We'll just need to check with them about a few things on their end. Martin will look further into it later this week.

Full text search moving along nicely. Indexing underway, beta testing coming up.
Grace is putting together a marketing plan

Nicole is focusing on DOIs at the moment, working with Rod Page. She'll be giving a paper at VALA next year, both about BHL and Museum Victoria assignment of DOIs.

SPNHC and TDWG will be a joint meeting next year in New Zealand
Might want to try to do something at IFLA next year, SE Asia.
Can discuss in LA if we want to have a satellite meeting about SE Asia libraries getting involved.

Ely hoping to collaborate with Auckland Museum and coordinate across other libraries in the area.