Jan 21 2014

Tech Review 1/21/14
Present: William, Mike, Trish

No electricity in MOBOT data center. Sent email to BHL listserv and tweet . BHL has been down only for about 10 minutes.

William
Got grant from DID. IMLS said sent paperwork with Est start date in Aug 2014 – Jul 2015 but need to start sooner. Trying to sychronize timeframe with international partners. PI from UK said she can’t change her start date so all of them need to start in March 2014.
BHL meeting in Australia – all partners attending except for Brazil. BHL US Exec committee will keep current official elected for 1 more year. Distributed new bylaws and funded positions will be referenced in an appendix so Martin has more flexibility in hiring.
Chuck asked William to look into NSF funding for data infrastructure. Networking research and education. Related to education or outreach. $500k-1 million available. Total 2 yrs. Campus cyberinfrastructure. Deadline for proposal is March 1st. Grants office Needs 1 week before deadline. Includes non-profit orgs can apply.
What about email from Chuck about grant related to education? William will respond to him and cc Trish.
Travel - Going to North Carolina Feb 4-7 and next week Feb 8-13th in Berlin
Tech meeting in STL Apr 1-3rd. April 1st ½ day and dinner, full day 2nd , full day 3rd. About 10 people attending.
Africans using Macaw to upload books. Brazilians having an issue – uploaded 2 books not from Brazil and are worried about author rights. Would need to talk with IA about removing.
Still has to flesh out the IMLS workflow document more identifying the tools and technology

Mike
Art of Life data - not heard from Kyle about duplicate issue
Was going to turn on OAI harvesting today but since systems are down can’t do it.

Trish
Purposeful Gaming
- Service agreements – finalized agreements and sent to Harvard and Cornell. Waiting for their offices to sign and return.
- RFP – outline written and some sections fleshed out. Will try to get draft to William by end of week.
- Webwise – Mike L and William not going. Trish, Doug, and Mike B. will attend
CBI
- William and Trish continue to work on document of how much of each of our time needs to be devoted to each projects