May 19, 2009 BHL Executive Conference Call

BHL Executive Conference call May 19





Topics for discussion:


1. Debriefing of BHL Europe meetings. Issues raised

5 day series of meetings and workshop. Many issues to be clarified in upcoming months. BHL Europe attendees have been encouraged to post to BHL wiki. Biodiversity Informatics is not on the radar screen for BHL Europe, more cultural heritage. Automated markup, article-ization all on us.




2. Thursday BHL IC conference call.

bhl membership process
new members
BHL budget




3. Status of Cal Academy and ANHP appplications.


Will put voting for CAS and ASNP membership on the agenda. Also on the agenda is the newly drafted membership process.




4. Chinese Academy Discussions


Cui attended BHL Europe. Strategy discussions--he thought could be coupled with EOL or done separately; no need to align schedules. Will verify with Keping Ma. Interest in a technical meeting in China. Cui runs the Botany information center which publishes a number of journals. He wants to adopt our architecture--more interested in content. May be able to send people with alternate funding.


5. reviewing the change in funding for scanning. Moore money running out this year (paying 50% of Tech Manager salary). 22% of the current funding must be put aside for year 5. Tom will revise his note to describe how much content will be ingested, as opposed to scanned, and also the importance of maintaining staff to keep development moving forward. Sustainability is the next big issue BHL must resolve.


Next call June 9




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