BHLStaffCallSept08

Agenda
October 3rd
9:00 Central/ 10:00 Eastern/ 14:00 GMT (I think)
Tom Garnett will be joining at about 10:10 Eastern to discuss the Woods Hole November Meeting
Bernard will not be able to join the call. His notes have been incorporated below


Hi.

• Call for volunteer note reviewer
• Welcome old friends, meet new ones, status of BHL partners and members of our call
• Round robin updates
  • NH London
    • a. Gemma is the new Nathan and has been trained up and the handover was smooth.
    • b. The IA also has a Scribe in the National Library of Scotland (non-BHL)
      • How do we know that it's not BHL content?
        
    • c. We have a fulltime post (until March 09) to perform due diligence checks on post 1860 Serials, so any priorities should be fed through to us now.
    • d. SFX (part of the Vital project under EDIT) is nearly ready for release and has some BHL titles in it. Hoping to learn more at Woods Hole about how we improve this.
• Who is scanning what, and how is it going? Topics/formats
• Who is doing review of returned material? How's it going?
• Foldouts: Status of quality and use.

Upcoming meeting

• Cancel NY for now?
• Woods Hole get together to talk messy nasty metadata issues. Agenda here
  • Bernard from NH London will be attending

Is NY scanning moving?

• What's with New Jersey?
• What's with Princeton, New Jersey?

Updates to the Deduper

• People using it successfully?
  • NH London: We are not using the mono dedup tool yet although we have found some of our serials are actually monos (long story).
• Suggests for improvements?

Is Everyone OK with wonderfetch?

• If not, why?

Duplicates, Frankenserial runs, Communication (Oh My!)

• Serial Mashup - bidding- mergers - partials - etc.
  • NH London: We have found a black hole with serials bidding at NHM which we are filling in. Hopefully this will reduce dup scanning.
• How does one let others know that you have completed what you are able scan out of a bid you've made, etc.?
• How long does it take to merge a set of serials? 5min. _20 min. ___60min.
• Any feedback on merging/bidding on serials mashup welcome. Send comments to Bernard and/or the group.

BHL Delivery

• I went to a restaurant and ordered the "Archiv fur Naturgeschichte"; the waiter said to me "I'm sorry, but 3 other customers have just ordered the "Archive fur Naturgeschichte", and we only have one of those left...we could split it into 3 portions...or 2 portions, or maybe it will all go to you...how do we figure this out and have everyone pleased with the result?

Teaching Suzanne how to tell time

• Who is going to hold her hand when American's changes the clocks?

(Erin Rushing will not be on the call. Please let her know directly if there are any copyright agreement questions. Or we can hold off for another call.)