BHL Staff 2009 Action Items
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BHL Staff Meeting 2009
Committees
Citebank Committee: John M., Grace, Erin T., Bianca, Connie R.
Ingest methodology: Don, Suzanne, Erin T., Christine, Becky, Bianca, Connie R.
Button committee: John M., Erin T., Becky, Bianca, Grace, Matt P., Connie R.
Personal Name Authority Review: Diane R., Diana D., Judy, Suzanne
Mission statement: Bianca and Don
Collection issues: Bianca, Don, Robin, Christine, Matt P., Tom B., Connie R.
Action Items
Citebank
- Chris and team to work on adding the TL1 and 2 and Harvard's journal abbreviations to the Citebank - status of ZooRecord
- John M. is to follow up with the results of the grant for citations IABL (Zanoni)
- Gemini reporting button needs to be added to Citebank
- Who: Phil
- Due: by end of the year
- Check to linking citebank records back to title in BHL
- Who: Mike L.
- Due: by end of the year
- Clearly identify contributor for each citation and more clearly brand BHL books that we have ability to edit
- Who: BHL Tech Team
- Due: by the end of the year
- Need to distinguish BHL (scanned) content from user-contributed (uploaded, bibliographic) content
- Who: BHL Tech Team
- Due: by the end of the year
- Citebank committee will act as a liaison to staff to get feedback on Citebank
- Who: see above
- Due: by the end of the year
Ingest Issues:
- Contributing libraries should be marked 'archive.org:institution'; should BHL institutions be marked 'BHL:institution
- Who: Mike L.
- Due: prior to ingest
- Complete
- Michelle A. will be the ingest weekly monographic dedupping point person. Bess M. (SIL) will be back up.
- From now on, OCLC number and volume information will be used for monographic dedupping
- Monthly Call Agenda - add how the monographic dedupping work is going
- Kai to add CDL or IA or something to the Serial Bid list log on / password for us to use to bid on serials
- ASAP - Bianca to contact and discuss
- Division of serial spreadsheets and distribution to BHL staff for serial bidding & merge where obvious!!!
- Who: Bianca + bidders
- Due: ASAP, dependent on addition of CDL/IA logon in bid list
- Add capability of inserting blank sheet that has wording that we know page is missing or blank or known problem
- Who: Mike L.
- Due: end of yr.
- When asked to ingest specific titles that lack metadata, enters Gemini as needing cataloging
- Draft a working deaccession policy for non-BHL dupes with bad metadata
- collections committee
- Due: february 2
- Make an interface for creator merging in portal admin dashboard
- Mike L. Erin T. Grace D.
- Due: Feb 2
Portal Editing
- Create committee to address Creator Admin editing needs, policy, gather requirements, and draw on existing authorities to work with Mike for dashboard functionality changes
- Volunteers: Diane, Diana, Judy, Suzanne
- Mike to through all indicated pages to give us prefixes for standardization; to be discussed on an upcoming staff call
- Mike to take a look at commas appearing as a result of pagination edits
- end of the year
- Look into adding year, vol. and piece info to page panel in portal; real estate issues may need to be addressed
- Mike L.
- end of yr
- Mike to look and see if buttons in paginator are actually "assign" or "replace"; also "unlock" vs. "complete"
- end of yr.
- Find way of making paginator easier to use and editable by a larger community of users
- Mike L. Erin T. Grace D.
- Feb 2
- Mike to look into error page as a result of admin dashboard edits
- Mike L. worker bees
- end of yr.
- Volume notes: add additional notes field for public facing notes, maintain in-house "notes" field currently existing;
- Mike L. Erin & Grace
- end of yr.
- Come up with language to change "expand all" to something else that invites users to look at volume information
- button committee
- Friday 13th! of Nov
- Erin and Grace to communicate =debug URL for the group to help track errors being received
- end of this week DONE
- Figure out priority, possibility of adding additional volume information to an item so that it can be associated with various title IDs with different enum & chrons
- Cal Acad identity in bid list needed
- Kai
- ASAP
- Create a way to separate and deliver out images/ illustration once identified in Paginator
- LONG TERM
- Open paginator to crowd sourcing.
- LONG TERM
Gemini
- Committee to address Gemini button, web form, auto-response issues,
- Erin Thomas, Bianca Lipscomb, Grace Duke, Becky Morin, John Mignault, Connie Rinaldo, Matt Person
- Thank you for submitting to BHL auto response; Someone needs to write automated response and send to Mike for inclusion into the portal
- Who: button committee, Mike L.
- Due: friday 13th of Nov
- Boiler plate responses for responding re: specific issues; creation of wiki page
- Who: button committee
- Due: end of Nov
- Generic BHL email address to use for responses, platform
- Who: Chris Freeland, Mike L., Phil
- Due: PRIORITY for Dev Team
- Evaluate Gemini update
- Who: Keri, Erin & Grace
- Due: 11/20
- Update Gemini software
- Who: Mike L. & Bianca
- Dur:
Gemini statistics
Public Facing Wiki
John, Bianca, Grace & Erin to sort out and get er done!
ACTION ITEM: make each section on the wiki HP into a separate page.
-Portal FAQ page (scraped from the internal wiki)
-HELP aned tutorials: instructional videos
-Documentation: workflow, presentations, collection development policy and other documentation
ACTION ITEM: need to have a page for developer tools and APIs use the current Tools page content. This page needs to be a top level link on the navigation menu.
-Licensing and copyright
ACTION ITEMS: make a new page with that contact list and link to it from the main contact page.
ACTION ITEM: Chris and Mike figure out the admin link placement if the "about" page goes away
end of year
- Walled Garden text
- Opt-in for editing public facing wiki
- Who: everyone at BHL staff meeting is invited
- Due: ongoing
Mission and Collection
- Review the mission statement
- Who: don & bianca
- Due: feb 2
- Review Collection Development policy and plan
- Who: committee
- Due: march 14
