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Agenda
- copyright metadata update, see copyright page
- processing metadata for due diligence titles
- updates to BHL homepage
- new calendar system (grace)
- FYI, first quarterly report (grace)
- volunteer/intern update
- round robin
- field books in BHL, yay! http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/59676 (Becky)
- BHL at ESA (grace)
Notes
Attendees
NHM:
MBLWHOI: Matthew
MCZ: Chris
Cornell: Marty
AMNH: Diana, Matt
NYBG:
SIL: Bianca, Grace, Keri, Gilbert, Suzanne, Fabiana, Grillo
USGS: Richard
MOBOT: William, Trish
Field: Diana
Cal Acad: Becky
(c) & due diligence
calendars
want to track things about BHL
milestones, conferences, global updates, papers,
multiple ways to track all these things and needed to streamline ==> update calendar system
create subsets of calendars for diff. types of information: conferences, milestones, all aggregated into 1 main calendar
Everything in one place on BHL calendar page
upcoming conferences page shows just conferences calendar, same w/ milestones page
tracking only from 2012 from now on
GC to go back and retrospectively add milestones b/c we want to have a BHL timeline of milestones
you are welcome to send appointments to the calendar via
biodiversitylibrary@gmail.com and GC will adjust the appointment for the appropriate calendar
send appointments for the first time you scanned a book for BHL, for example
you can add to conferences or presentations, posters, papers wiki pages but
or you can send GC an email if you can't figure out how to send an appointment or add to the wiki (but by this time you should really know how to do this)
Quarterly report is out, yay! To be made available publicly on the public wiki via a new "newsdesk" that GC is developing
Round Robin
NHM:
MBLWHOI: working towards a shipment, working on due diligence copyright metadata, had agreed to work on a cookbook page in the wiki and to be working on that soon, over the last couple of weeks EOL component has moved in next to library, now giving tours in tandem, showing how books from stacks get into BHL and then vice versa from EOL into BHL.
MCZ: JJ working on documentation to prep before her transition to SIL, new PT person working Gwen Henry 2 days a week on various projects, to do some BHL Gemini requests and pagination, would be interested poss. in Flickr work. JJ to start at SIL on Monday.
Cornell: Nothing new to report.
AMNH: Shipment being scanned right now at SIL, Nancy working on on whittling down 74 QA titles to 50, Macaw?
NYBG:
SIL: 10 vols from AMNH in process, still scanning away as usual 30-40/week, might be a little less over the next few weeks but running low on what to scan, pushing 30K images on Flickr, NYBG sending some books to SIL to scan
USGS: staff members trained on using Admin interface, blog post up about contributions = first 6 titles via library.usgs.gov, analysis of titles on loan to SIL to come in a couple of weeks making progress on implementing Macaw, getting content to IA right now, USGS developers working w/ Joel to improve Macaw, have a volunteer and will have some interns (3) coming in soon...scanning some non-bio works for now,
MOBOT:
Field: just got $2K and will be sending Gemini requests to Ft. Wayne; Fedex or driving
Cal Acad: sending last shipment out of current scanning alottment for next week, have a little money to spend out before the end, sending Qs to IA re: OCR files - proximity to IA helpful, wants to know about how you can replace OCR for BHL, good contacts at IA; Christina Fiddler had her baby! Out on mat leave so now Yolanda Bustos filling in, has been on board for 3.5 weeks and has been doing great; first field book now in BHL ==> Rollo Beck field book now in BHL, in-house CAS scan, submitted package of JP2s and filenames to Mike Lichtenberg via "magic spreadsheets" ==> if you do have a transcription can you add it to IA/BHL?; working on a blog post for the Rollo Beck field notebook announcement; Danielle Castronovo moving onto Asst. Curator of Dance Archives at NYPL
