August 22, 2012

SIL BHL Task Force Standing Meeting

August 22, 2012

• New BHL designs!
  Please review ASAP and add comments
• Yes the designs are nice but the requirements document needs help too.
  We'll send a reminder to the BHL staff group
• Shark week social media update
  Grace gave an update on Shark Week; see her SIL Staff blog post for traffic details
• BHL proposal for SXSW Interactive.
  "Will Sea Monkeys Survive the Zombie Apocalypse?" by Martin and Chris. Please vote for us!
• BHL Staff/Tech Meeting Planning
  Get Martin your ASO forms if you're going. Please add to the agenda. We hope to have a call in option for people.
• Collections things:
  • 1) putting together a Project Nomination Form -- this form will allow BHL members to capture niche digitization project ideas and gather concepts together to present to potential funders; NEG will be able to reference these forms is talking to potential funders
  • 2) working on some BHL collection analysis by starting with pilot set = all titles with "natural history" as a subject term (approx. 2400)
• Wikimedia
  Gilbert talked a bit about Wikimedia things