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BHL China

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Beijing, 15-17 November 2010

Travel Info

Name	Arrive	Depart
Chris Freeland	12 Nov 23:30PM American Airlines 187	19 Nov 07:55AM American Airlines 186
Martin Kalfatovic	United Airlines 851 ORD > PEK Arrive 15:40 13 Nov 2010	United Airlines 850 PEK > ORD Depart 17:25 20 Nov 2010
Keri Thompson	United Airlines 851 ORD > PEK Arrive 15:40 13 Nov 2010	United Airlines 850 PEK > ORD Depart 17:25 20 Nov 2010

Accommodations

Hotel Address and name in Chinese:
酒店地址：中国北京市海淀区北正黄旗59号（北京香山公园东门脚下）
世纪金源香山商旅酒店
酒店电话（8610）59898888
FRAGRANT HILL EMPARK HOTEL
Telephone: （8610） 59898888
Website __http://www.empark.com.cn/english/index.asp__
You can print the Chinese character above and show it to the taxi driver so that s/he take you to the hotel smoothly.

Agenda

Day 1: (Mon 15, Nov.) BHL US-China workshop

Morning:
Chris Freeland: BHL Global Progress & Content Acquisition:(9:00-10:30)

• Global Activities
• Partners
• Content distribution
• Content acquisition

Martin Kalfatovic: Global Governance: (10:40-12:00)

• Policies and Principles
• Selection Criteria

Afternoon:
Keri Thompson: Scanning Workflow: (13:00-14:30)

• Origin of MARC records
• WonderFetch and an Example for IBCAS
• Getting content into <biodiversity> collection
• Loading locally scanned content into Internet Archive
• Other scanning procedures

BHL China Progress:
Zheping Xu: Progress and Problems of BHL China(in technique view) (14:30-15:20)
Fenghong Liu: Progress and problems for the Scanning workflow (15:40-17:00)

Day 2: (Tues 16, Nov.) BHL US-China workshop

Discussion(???, if the time is enough, then the half day of Day 3 can be put here, but I am afraid it is not):

1. Data storage service introduction (Scientific Data Center,Computer Network Information Center)
2. Scanning work showcase: speed up and attention
3. Mirror Site Construction
   • agreements for use, license, copyright
   • initial delivery of content: download from IA or send on external drives?
   • Ongoing sync of new data from US & other nodes
4. OCR strategy & text correction
5. Chinese common names (vernacular names) & uBio, BHL
6. Other services, visualization

Day 3: (Wed 17, Nov.) Discussion between US-China Centers for Biodiversity Informatics (CBI)

Morning:
Chris Freeland: Introduction of Center for Biodiversity Informatics (CBI) : (9:00-10:00)
IBCAS: Introduction of Lab of Biodiversity Informatics (several plant information systems like specimens, images,names,...):(10:00-11:30)

Afternoon:
Open time to revisit BHL scanning issues