GlobalBHLTechMtg_2010_Agenda
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Global BHL Technical Meeting
Woods Hole, MA
22 - 24 September 2010
Attendees & Accommodations
Venue, in Woods Hole village: http://bit.ly/d0e1AB
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Smith Conference Room, and Grass Reading Room, MBLWHOI Library
Link to arrival, logistics, dinner notes:
Non-Technical+BHL+Global+Meeting+notes
Agenda
The goal of the meeting is to bring all signed and prospective BHL partners together to describe priorities and requirements for a Global BHL. The meeting is intended to be focused and result in :
- Creation of a global timeline for milestones & deliverables
- High-level description & prioritization of software and hardware components
- Description of a global governance & policies for collaboration
22 September 2010
8:30am - 9:00am: Arrival, setup & breakfast
9:00am - 9:45am: Welcome & Introductions
- Matthew Person - Housekeeping / Administrative
- Cathy Norton- Welcome
- Tom Garnett - Welcome from BHL Director-- bottom up organization due to interest and concern in Biodiversity. BHL has a small part to play and we have people from all over the world. Self-organized to work together to create something bigger than any one of our projects. No central, higher authority.
- Graham Higley - Welcome from BHL Executive Committee Chair (BHLUS/English): Will keep us on time so we get to dinner on time.
- Introduction of each participantAttendees & Accommodations Members of BHL China were unable to attend.
9:45am - 10:30am: A Brief History of BHL: Musical presentation of biodiversity/BHL
Martin Kalfatovic
Taking measure of the BHL
Chris Freeland:
BHL-US role in the Global BHL
- Content Selection & Digitization
- Applications & Planned Development
- Data Storage & Infrastructure
- Globalization Activities
Referrers to BHL:
EOL,
Tropicos,
IPNI,
Internet Archive,
BioStor.org,
BiblioOdyssey
Clustered and distributed Storage:
Phil Cryer and Anthony Goddard 201009_BHLE_Arch_meeting_WoodsHole.ppt
10:30am - 11:00am: Comfort break
11:00am - 3:00pm: Getting To Know You (Partner Presentations)
Each regional node will be given an opportunity to make a presentation before the group. The purpose of these presentations is to let everyone know about your specific project and how it connects with BHL as a whole. Each presentation should cover the following points:
- Motivation for participating in BHL
- Overview of your organization / project
- Technical work already completed or planned
- Digitized content available or planned
- Human and other resources available
- Attitude to contractors and commercial provider
- Existing contracts or relationships with technology partners
- Availability of students / volunteers for assistance
- Funding
- Drivers / criteria for success for funding organizations
- Planned or required integration with other local, regional or international efforts
- Dates of major milestones & deliverables
- Regional Requirements
11:00am - 12:00pm: Partner Presentations - Europe:
GlobalMeeting-WP1-100919.pptGlobalMeeting-WP2-092210.pptGlobalMeeting-WP3-220910.ppt
12:00pm - 1:00pm: Lunch
1:00pm - 1:30pm: Partner Presentations - China
1:30pm - 2:00pm: Partner Presentations -
Australia
2:00pm - 2:30pm: Partner Presentations -
Brazil
2:30pm - 3:00pm: Partner Presentations - Egypt
BHL Tech Workshop 09-2010 NA1.pdf
3:00pm - 3:30pm: Comfort break
3:30pm - 4:00pm: Review of BHL User Survey - Bianca Crowley, BHL Collections Manager
BHLsurvey2010.pptx
BHLSurvey2010_questions.pdf
BHL-E_5pt8_100805.pdf
4:00pm - 4:30pm: Names
4:30pm - 5:00pm: Global Open Access
- What copyright issues and distribution limitations will we encounter in sharing materials globally?
NOTES SEPT 22
ACTION ITEMS for all days
PARKING LOT
ACTION: HOMEWORK for September 22: decide what you want to do on September 23.
23 September 2010
ADMIN NOTES September 23,2010
TECH NOTES September 23, 2010
BIRDS OF A FEATHER OCR NOTES September 23, 2010
TRACK & BREAKOUT BRIEF REPORTS September 23, 2010
WILD IDEAS NOTES September 23, 2010
8:30am - 8:45am: Arrival & breakfast
8:45am - 9:00am: Overview of day's activities, then move to separate rooms
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Track 1: Administration
Policies & procedures needed for a global collaboration
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Track 2: Technology
Components needed for a Global BHL
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9:00am - 10:30am
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- Organization of each BHL node
- Global BHL collaboration and governance
- Communications models for project leaders of each BHL node
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- Content Ingest in existing BHL
- Content Replication
- preservation (LOCKSS), mirror sites
- Localization
- Are there classes of materials that cannot be openly distributed?
- If so, can we realistically bring those into BHL & share them?
- Global Identifiers
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10:30am - 10:45am
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Comfort Break
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10:45am - 12:00pm
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Branding & Identity
- Local node branding and identity plans; relationship to funding or parent institutions
- Logos, is there value in harmonizing visual branding of the local nodes?
- Do local nodes identify with the global BHL "brand"? How?
Outreach
- Outreach activities, combined and node-specific
- Social networking and new media
- Old media (press releases etc.)
Funding issues and opportunities
- Local government funding opportunities, possibilities
- Non-profit and corporate opportunities
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Data Mining
- Scientific names
- Taxonomic acts
- Places
- People
- Relationships
- role for map/reduce over distributed filesystems
- Other automated services that add value to BHL data - where do those run in a disconnected, geographically disparate system?
OCR & Text Correction
APIs & UIs
- Opportunities for improvement
- Services required for integration with other projects
- Biodiversity (EOL, APNI, Chinese Virtual Herbarium, KE Emu at various natural history museums)
- Cultural Heritage (Europeana)
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12:00pm - 1:00pm
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Lunch
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1:00pm - 3:00pm
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"Birds of a Feather" Breakouts
Content - Bianca Crowley - Minutes
Defining materials & metadata required for a global resource
- Authority files for people, titles, citations
- Deduping content in BHL with already digitized content from existing digitization projects with global partners
- Grey literature
- In-copyright content
- commercial content vs. open
- US Safe Harbor principles
Data Synchronization - Phil Cryer
Continued discussions of synchronization issues from earlier session, including:
- Hardware requirements
- How to deliver first round of data to a new node (hard drives, cloud)
Others, as decided during meeting
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3:00pm - 3:15pm
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Comfort Break
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3:15pm - 4:15pm
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Reporting from Tracks & Breakouts
- Each Track & Breakout will report on the major decisions reached and action items assigned
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4:15pm - 5:00pm
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Wild Ideas - Chris Freeland
Novel things we can do with BHL content at global scale
- Gaming
- Delivery on mobile devices
- Recombining / extracting BHL content for other uses
- Print on Demand
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24 September 2010
8:30am - 9:00am: Arrive, setup, breakfast
NEW TRACKS for Friday:
synchronicity lillie 100a
Business Continuity/Resilience Grass reading room
GRIB/Metadata/Scanning Workflow BORIS Smith
9:00am - 10:00am: Prioritization & High Level Requirements Definition for a Global architecture
- Review of action items assigned, parking lot items, goals
- Opportunities for alignment of timelines for a Global BHL
10:00am - 10:30am: Comfort Break
10:30am - 12:00pm: The Road Ahead
- Discussion of methods of communication & collaboration
- Review of timelines and interdependencies
- Commitment to work and delivery schedules
- Recap, final words
- Meeting close
