August2010BHLStaff

August 2010 BHL Staff Call Agenda

• Date/ Host for September call
• Scanning requests (Bianca/ Grace)
• FYI "Not in BHL" issue (Bianca, on behalf of Grace and Mike L.)
• Review action items from previous call (June)
• BHL Communications Plan needs staff input: BHL+Communications+Plan+June+4,+2010
• CiteBank updates:
  • Providers via OAI CitebankProviders | BHL OAI info: http://biodivlib.wikispaces.com/Developer+Tools+and+API
  • New hire at MOBOT = David Heskett
  • Ideas for future developments: http://vufind.org/demo/, http://mbgserv18.mobot.org/search/, http://www.gliffy.com/publish/1306163/, http://texashistory.unt.edu/ http://hpcanpub.mcmaster.ca/
  • Need for an "Orange Bag" inventory from BHL institutions
    • What in-house scanning projects are relevant for BHL?
    • Anyone experimenting with uploading in-house scans to IA at all?
  • Wiki CiteBank pages for review:
    • CiteBank
    • CiteBank Assessment
    • CiteBank Content
    • CiteBank Search - lipscombb Oct 8, 2010 deleted as it was simply a page with a screenshot, no information
    • CiteBank Ingest Workflow
• Best Practices/ Cookbook of what we have done - Documenting the BHL (Suzanne) Cookbook.doc
• Collections Reivew
  • Ingest review update
  • Priority Botany & Zoology titles
  • "Collections Dartboard" -- a visual representation of subject terms for BHL
• Portal Admin Dashboard new functionality -- Collections Module http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/Admin/CollectionEdit.aspx
  • FYI Portal edits are not reflected for 10 minutes in the Browse menus b/c they are cached for that amount of time; you can view your changes immediately via the search function
• TG says next scanning allocation to be issued in October
• Round robin
• Review staff report if time