bhlstaffcallnov2014
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Lead: Bianca Crowley
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.
Agenda
- Roll call - New to the BHL staff calls? Please introduce yourself (Bianca)
- Recap of the OCLC / BHL call (Suzanne and others)
- Round Robin (all)
- Has anyone used Gemini to deduplicate serials for digitization yet? How'd it go?
- Outreach (Grace)
- Gemini update (Jackie)
- Tech updates (TBD)
- Art of Life
- Purposeful Gaming
- Mining Biodiversity
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Notes
Attending
Carolyn Sheffield (SIL), Grace Costantino (SIL), Matt Person (MBLWHOI), Jackie Chapman (SIL), Diana Duncan, David Iggulden (Kew), Marty Schlabach (Cornell), Bianca Crowley (SIL), Richard Hulser (NHMLAC), Joe DeVeer (MCZ), Don Wheeler (NYBG), Alison Harding (NHM), Pat Murphy (NAL), Matthew Bolin (AMNH), Martin Kalfatovic (SIL), Trish Rose-Sandler (MOBOT), Diana Shih (AMNH), Connie Rinaldo (MCZ), Keri Thompson (SIL), Tomoko Steen (LC), Leora Siegel (CBG), Daria Wingreen-Mason (SIL), Cathy Buckwalter (ANSP), William Ulate (MBG), Bianca Crowley (SIL)
Pat (NAL) – working on catalog collection that we’ve been working on digitizing for a couple of years now and USDA publications
Round Robin:
Updates + has anyone used Gemini to deduplicate serials for digitization yet? How did it go?
Matt Person (MBLWHOI) - haven’t used Gemini for serial deduplication. Most Firdays, continuing BHL tweets. MBL looking for new director. Art Sussman serving as intermediate, was formerly with MacArthur
Jackie & Keri (SIL) – haven’t used G for serial deduping yet. Status quo. Nothing to add
David Iggulden (Kew) – No serial deduplication. Chris has been asked for additional savings for next year as part of restructuring. Met with Alison and David (Kew) at NHM recently.
Diana Duncan (Field) – Volunteer is back with us on pagination, working on Art of Life. No serial deduplication
Marty Schlabach (Cornell) –
Titan arum in bloom! Library and university doing publicity, and mention of BHL. Curtis Botanical Magazine has great illustration. Will be in touch with Grace to share what connects with BHL. Live webcam on it! Not used Gemini for serial deduping. Main involvement has been with seed and nursery catalogs, interesting experiment using Google refine to dedup seed & nursery catalogs
Take seed and nursery records in form of spreadsheet and match up with Google refine, because we all catalog differently, effort to find which records actually refer to the same thing.
Richard Hulser (NHM-LAC) – Director Jane Pisano announced retirement, staying on until replacement in place, probably several months. Wonderful visit to NHM. Not active in Gemini yet. Gathering new interns and volunteers with updating La brea tar pit site. Gave a couple of talks. University of Knoxville presentation coming up and a couple others.
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Moderator of session mentioned about how they’re doing something similar with illustrations, seemed interested in getting involved, so I pointed them to MOBOT
Trish – we’re having a call with British Library next week so thank you for the connection!
Connie & Joe (MCZ) – Have used Gemini passively to dedupliate serials, before putting in but haven't entered any new issues yet. Have checked on a number of things. Identifying serial runs to send to Harvard repository, off site storage. Serials that are available in entirety on BHL up to 1923. One shipment at IA, one at in-house and working on subsequent shipments to both facilities
Connie – went to TDWG with Carolyn and Martin; Connected with NHM in Paris, and Ontario as well
Joe , is use of Gemini helpful for serials – Yes. Found a serial that was being worked on so helped with determining what to send here and what gap fills might be needed
Having serial title as title of Gemini issue was helpful. Works well so far!
Jackie - Will you be adding new tickets when you find it’s not yet in Gemini and you plan to scan?
Joe - Yes
Don Wheeler (NYBG) – BHL-wise, have Macaw up and running and uploading through Macaw primarily seed and nursery catalogs for another project. List of shipment to IA for scanning for within next few weeks. Gemini issues, using for selection (so passively like MCZ too).
Alison (NHM London) – great to meet Richard and David. Issues with IA matching scans to wrong metadata. Going to meet with them to find out what’s going on. Slow to load images in Macaw. 6 illustrations document took over an hour. Not using Gemini actively either just responding to issues assigned.
Don – Susan said it was running really slow as well
Joe – I concur, off and on, more so recently
Martin – let’s talk to Joel about that
Pat (NAL) – Just continuing. Have IA on site scanning. Unfamiliar with systems since still new.
Bianca – no problem. Great to know that you’re scanning. Macaw is for automated ingest process
Diana and Matthew (AMNH) – haven’t sent anything, slowly preparing one IA batch. Also working with Art of Life project; Have not been using Gemini to dedupe
Tomoko (LC) – Still waiting for Michael to get set up for scanning with own LoC equipment since no longer using IA, Membership side, 3 international meetings, potential members. Have arrangements to meet you guys. Hopefully something will come out of it, DOE. Don’t have IA access anymore.
Leora (Chicago Botanic Gardens) – Waiting to get started with BHL. Finished NEH grant , last pieces now digitized and uploaded! Now, looking at getting started with BHL. Good news that can’t announce yet! Interesting meeting in Illinois with DPLA. Illinois will be submitting application to be a hub, mentioned BHL as a partner
Cathy (ANSP) – Trying to get a shipment ready, new hire (Ria Capone) librarian getting acclimated, everything seems to be going well, haven’t tried any serial deduping with Gemini yet
OCLC Update
Suzannne Pilsk – The main person couldn’t make it, Tim Martin filled in. What they sell to publishers, how the data can be brought into OCLC products and shown to libraries and users. What kind of data BHL has, what it might not have, prob need to go offline to see what we want/need to do. OCLC has central index, different ways to provide BHL data to them, item level title level information, divide by books and serials, segments, they call articles and chapters, would go in differently, volume, info in separate file, so our holdings records not collapsed in a way that OCLC use
Trish – we did ask them to give specs on how they would like metadata encoded
Suz sent out this morning
We know BHL data does not show up well in OCLC which is why we had the call
Maybe we could wipe and re-ingest in a cleaner way
What are we going to do next and who is going to do it?
Martin – would like to have someone volunteer to chair next step implementation to do these things. Maybe people who were on call, form a group, anyone want to step forward?
Outreach Update
Grace Costantino, BHL Outreach & Communication Manager
Linked latest quarterly report and newsletter
For newsletter, Right hand column, can subscribe if not already
Monthly outreach reports page
Monsters Are Real evaluation – Halloween campaign
Linked in agenda, the evaluation.
Most successful campaign we’ve ever had. Huge increase in engagement, especially for twitter and blog
Very last page, overarching conclusions
Importance of Member and Affiliate collaborations – THANK YOU to everyone who sent content and coordinated with your social media folks
84% of tweets seen were result of Members & Affiliates sharing this content
Monsters are Real Stats are not included in the quarterly report yet
Don: Do you send those to social media contacts at participating institutions?
Grace: Not yet, but I will!
Also, you can check out storify for a recap of the Monsters Are Real campaign
Add This
Social media sharing and follow buttons
Buttons doing well
Pop ups for recommended content, not really useful so diabled this feature,
Buttons for sharing and following remain
Don’t forget to sign up for blog post on book of the month!
Gemini
Jackie Chapman
Issue tracking system – communicate about and track
1286 issues open
58 of those are new (from this month)
only 7 left from 2009!
Thank you everyone for working on these
Tech Update
Trish Rose-Sandler:
Art of Life – now have 135,000 pages identified as having images
And about 89,-000 classified pages
Mentioned last month 2.6 million images uploaded from IA to Flickr
A lot of those, issues with metadata, lacking info who contributing library and sponsor were
Identified fields that we think need to be there
BHL collection, leaf number, contributing library, sponsor
Gathering input from other libraries
Hope to have those corrections by end of year
Work with Zooniverse is continuing
Set up a basic prototype interface
Purposeful Gaming – continuing to do a lot of scanning
Transcribing Brewster material
TiltFactor focusing on building backedn database for collecting and storing data gather thru game
BHL Blog post about crowdsourcing across various projects
William Ulate, BHL Technical Director
Mining Biodiversity and BHL in general
Going to see certain changes
Browsing by contributor added recently and since updated to include segment
Issues with GNRD
For last 3 months with taxonomic name finding
With help of their developer, pinpointed the problem, working on solution, testing that
Hopefully be able to regenerate finding of names without failures and delays we saw
As Grace mentioned, we've also taken away recommended content feature
Mining Biodiversity
Already started to practice with tools that colleagues in Manchester adapted
Tagging BHL content
Help us train algorithms to tag whole corpus
Have asked for a couple of modifications
Web program that runs on their servers and we access it from here
Netlitic – cloud that shows how tweets are before and after the campaign
Done with tool our colleagues developed
Talking with AltMetric
DOIs and URIs, they’ve modified their methods so that they can collect the URIs
Using an application to help understand what users are citing and where they’re coming from
Presented at TDWG
Many others cited BHL
Workshop and presentation of tools from Mining Biodiversity
Also did lightning talk on game
Jiri Frank’s presentation on gaming too
William gave a lightning talk in response to interest
Bianca - Feedback link moved from Feedback to our Header
Several comments in favor of the change
