Integrating BHL China content

Issues & Questions for Discussion

• BHL China content has been integrated into the BHL Portal: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/browse/collection/ibcas
• BHL China records do not have MARC records, but some minimal metadata is being provided to IA at the time of scanning - what is this data and where is it coming from?
• How can we improve the records for BHL China content to make them more searchable?
• Until better catalog records are available, users will only be able to view BHL China records as a result of browsing the BHL China collection or through a taxonomic name search
• Who will put together the text for the BHL China collection landing page? See the Darwin's Library landing page for an example http://biodiversitylibrary.org/collection/darwinlibrary
• Would we want to create a Chinese language collection in BHL to aggregate BHL China content with the other handful of Chinese language content scanned to date by other BHL members?
• BHL Admin "View/Update Item Details" module workflows (Grace Costantino, Bianca Crowley, & Mike Lichtenberg) - to discuss briefly at Life & Literature meeting
• Pinyin currently in all lower-case. Is this the standard? Is there any need for capitalization?
• Some MARC records exist for these titles in OCLC, should we consider bringing these records into IA and/or BHL somehow?
• Some BHL member institutions have Chinese language catalogers on hand that may be able to help (MCZ has offered help here, thank you!)
• Making sure that "English" is provided as a language to IA at the time of scanning in an effort to OCR the scientific names in the text