BHL Staff 2009 IC Summary

• Issues regarding Citebank (also for TDWG) -- Chris
• Status of TL2 added to BHL/Citebank -- Chris
• Gemini -- Bianca
  • purpose
  • workflow
  • communicating with users
  • staffing issues
    • reporting statistics will reflect the funding/support that will be needed for continual maintenance of BHL
• Gap-fill piggy bank: Create fund pool for gap fill scanning with institutions no longer scanning that do not have money to scan. -- Diana
  • To avoid asynchrony of metadata & materials for ILL
• Raise issue of time for pagination to IC
  • Why pagination is important
    • extraction of illustrations, plates
    • sets BHL apart from other mass digitization projects
    • crucial for research esp. re: citations
  • what are short term strategies to address pagination issues?
  • long term: crowd sourcing
• Policy issue with regard to ingesting content; agreements should not limit our ability to delete content if we need to.
  • deletion of content with respect to guidelines in collection development policy
  • "We reserve the right to..."
• There is a unanimous agreement among BHL staff that funds must be generated to cover staffing costs to address a variety of concerns
  • estimated at $.30 per page
• As a result of QA discussion:
  • Adding QA procedures will slow down scanning
  • It's not simply the transportation costs, it's the cost of additional staff time
• Successful working meeting that was extremely useful -- should be scheduled annually, at least
• Many tasks to the Development Team
• Useful to have EOL present at Staff meeting