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Lead: Adriana Marroquin
Notetaker: Carolyn Sheffield
Charge: Biodiversity Heritage Library Staff share the collaborative responsibility for the daily operation, improvement, and promotion of the BHL as related to the
mission and goals of the Library and its participating institutions. Staff participate in project communications, including monthly conference calls, BHL's issue tracking system, and various outreach and engagement activities. Staff are responsible for the digitization, discoverability and maintenance of content contributed to the BHL repository by its participating institutions.
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Agenda & Notes
- Reminder: Toggle Mute/Unmute using *6
- New to the call? Please introduce yourself and welcome! (Adriana)
- Outreach update (Grace)
- Summer newsletter now available.
- New Feature: Use Gemini to Nominate Books for Social Media
- New "Social Media Fodder" Component in Gemini
- Anyone can add this component to any issue in Gemini to help me identify content to feature on BHL's (@BioDivLibrary) social media accounts.
- All issues with this component (whether open or closed, and no matter who is assigned to them) will automatically be added to the "Social Media Fodder" workspace in BHL.
- How do I use the "Social Media Fodder" Component?
- Add the "Social Media Fodder" Component to any issue in Gemini about a book that you think is a good social media candidate.
- Leave a short comment indicating why you think the book is a good candidate for social media.
- Go about your Gemini process as usual.
- Do not assign the issue to me (Grace Costantino). The component does the work of alerting me.
- Once all work on the issue is complete, you can close the issue as usual.
- You can use this component for:
- Books you are digitizing.
- Books being digitized by someone else.
- Books that you find in BHL that are already digitized. In this case, create a ticket in Gemini and add the "Social Media Fodder" Component. Do not assign anyone as a Resource.
- What makes a good social media candidate?
- Books with pretty illustrations
- Books that are historically or scientifically significant
- Books authored or illustrated by important individuals
- Rare books
- Books about odd or unusual subjects
- If in doubt, add the component!
- Why should you flag books as social media candidates?
- Highlight your contributions to a large audience - on average each month we reach over 2.4 million people on social media.
- Alert your institution and communities to your BHL contributions - whenever possible, I tag your institution's handle in the social media posts.
- Questions? Contact me (Grace Costantino) at CostantinoG@si.edu.
- Get more outreach highlights each month in the "Outreach" section of the monthly highlights email!
Comments:
This is wonderful! Thank you very much!
Agreed, a great idea. Thank you for the added functionality.
Questions or comments can be sent to Grace at any time. And many thanks to Jackie Chapman for testing it out with Grace before announcing it to all of you.
Keep an eye on monthly highlights - this is where we list top posts.
Round Robin Updates / Open Discussion (All)**
- News to report? Questions/Comments?
- Tomoko (LC) - thanks to Grace for help with LC intern who produced an online exhibit highlighting BHL content
- Michael (Cornell) - Status of agricultural publications in BHL. What the thinking was on including more on these. We get many requests for these in Gemini.
- Carolyn - Gemini requests are considered priorities and we defer to partner institutions to prioritize from within their own collections. Some users consider agricultural content as 'noise' but if others are requesting than would be considered
- Connie - Agreed. Considered in scope even though has been sticky in some ways.
- Tomoko - Agreed. We also get a lot of requests for agricultural materials, as well as the substantial collections.
- Jackie - Looking in Gemini, appears to be a gap-fill request. So would be scanning a number of those perhaps but not all.
- Collections Committee meeting next Tuesday - Matt will add to the agenda.
- Michael - High Res option, will add to Gemini issue
- Michael - in Gemini, issue of uploading a missing page or missing plate. Jackie - Defer to Tech Team for replacing image files. A lot of it involves working with IA. SIL does a lot of this work, too. Mike has put together a lot of workflow. Not sure if documentation exists. Joel - also not sure if exists. Mike - also not sure. Grace - Entry for correcting missing pages in documentation center. It's a work in progress but will send it around. Diane - is it through TT Scribe? Michael's issue is using local scanning. Haven't gotten to Macaw yet. Fishes of India - missing a page. Jackie can provide guidance when she returns in September.
Grant Projects:
- Expanding Access -- IMLS (Patrick Randall/Mariah Lewis)
- To date, EABL has secured 187 in-copyright from 82 contributors
- EABL's collection currently holds 5941 volumes from 717 titles, containing 650269 pages.
- Quite a few contributors preparing content to be scanned or getting scanned
- Patrick attended the annual SAA meeting in Portland, Oregon and did a poster presentation.
- Patrick posted a blog post this morning about one of our contributors- the Delaware Museum of Natural History.
- More info on these contributors will be available in BHL Highlights email!
- NDSR grant -- (Joe deVeer/Connie Rinaldo)
- NDSR residents and mentors will be meeting at MOBOT Sept 12 - 14. First day, mentors and residents will meet to discuss work to date and findings. Second date will be with Tech Team to discuss findings with them as well. Chance to explore possibilities on priorities for Technical Goals for Strategic Planning. Some residents looking at future collaborations with WikiData and using IDs for author name disambiguation. We've passed the halfway-point and looking forward to seeing where we go from the technical meeting.
- Field notebooks CLIR/Arcadia -- (Adriana Marroquin)
- Smithsonian FBP (Arcadia): 1074 digitized, 879 available online. surpassed cataloging goal
- BHL Field Notes (CLIR) - quarterly 112,216 pages digitized, 23% of goal. 52,159 published for a total of 641 items in BHL. Application for next round of CLIR funding in process. Christine: Joel and Macaw - have made adding field notes incredibly easy, whether 2 page to 1000 page items, especially in terms of pagination. So thank you for Macaw!
Committee reports:
- EC & Members group (Martin Kalfatovic or EC/Member volunteer) - nothing to report at this time.
- Technical Team (Joel Richard)
- Collections Committee (Trish Rose-Sandler) - Last call was July 10. Next call on Aug 22. Agenda will be similar to last time, discuss possible JSTOR collaboration, discuss a shared print repository, discuss page redaction policy. Linking related information to BHL content.
- Cataloging (Diana Duncan) - Met a few days ago. Updating documentation. 23 open issues. Will be reviewing as some can probably be closed.
- Gemini (Susan Lynch) - Has been a small number of incoming (non-scanning) Gemini requests. Think we've been closing those at a good rate.
Any other Questions / Comments?
REMINDER: Next call is scheduled for Thursday September 21 @ 11am ET
