copyright metadata inconsistencies

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Background

• New copyright metadata language circulated to BHL staff 4/4
• Due diligence metadata review request initiated via email to BHL members 4/23
• Reminded folks at SIL-BHL meeting 5/2
• Reminder to BHL Staff list 5/24 and May, July staff calls

Noted inconsistencies

1. field books – Rollo Beck Galapagos expedition journal http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/59676
2. Museum Victoria publications such as Memoirs of Museum of Victoria http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/59883 - lipscombb Aug 23, 2012 already talked to Ely about this at gBHL meeting; my understanding is that Joel is/has adapted Macaw to accommodate this
3. (Now corrected) Allan Hancock Pacific expeditions. [Reports] http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/5075 -- SIL gap-filled for MBLWHOI; MBLWHOI items corrected during batch update but SIL items not reported; later JJ corrected these manually in BHL and IA
4. Amphibian & Reptile conservation vol. 1 http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/57881 -- AMNH sent to SIL for scanning, scanned 4/27, could have just been a timing issue
5. Canadian Horticultural History http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/60850 -- MOBOT scanned 6/29/2012
6. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/2087
7. Flore générale de l'Indo-Chine http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/44886 -- seems like dates were not properly observed before scanning so lots of post 1922 content
   • OK -- t. 1 1912
   • OK -- t. 2 1908-1923
   • NO -- t. 3 1922-1933 should have stopped scanning at page 288
   • OK – t. 4 1912-1936 but stops prior to 1923 cutting vol. off at page 336
   • OK – t. 5 1910-1931 but stops prior to 1923 cutting vol. off at page 228
   • NO – t. 6 1908-1942 (only fasc. 1 of 1908 OK)
   • OK – t. 7 1907-1912
8. Potential issues with mapping CiteBank copyright metadata
9. NHM Darwin titles see http://biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/61215 for example Note: there was a decision to not adjust the (c) metadata for Darwin's library in general, and these are a part of the collection so perhaps they are ok? They do have different (c) metadata than other Darwin's library materials however...
10. Cambridge UNEP titles? No, see http://biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/58068 for example -- these are considered archive.org titles...
11. BHL China titles?
12. West American Scientist http://biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/39585 -- MOBOT has added copyright metadata unnecessarily see Gemini 4649
13. See Gemini for other issues identified...

Follow Up

As a result of the BHL staff meeting 2012 it was recommended by Nancy Gwinn that for all volumes scanned beyond the copyright cut-off that I should contact the scanning institution and ask that they perform the appropriate due diligence ASAP. I will be notifying institutions of errant items via Gemini with Priorty = Major and Component = Permissions, Portal Edit. Item metadata needs to be modified in BOTH BHL and IA according to our Copyright metadata standards.

See also Due Diligence page