October 2, 2007 BHL Executive Committee Notes

Chris: Moore grant has been submitted. The review is underway. Should hear by the 24th.

Tom: At last BHL, suggested architecture planning meeting around EOL planning meeting (right before). Jim Omura has asked Jim Edwards and
Jesse Ausubel to give presentation to Moore Board and that we might have the architecture meeting at Moore's facility in San Francisco
with Moore funding. Jim would also like to have some discussion about Informatics section and Fedora. If this would dilute the
architecture meeting, we could have split sessions. Might want to include some from Berlin and Julius Welby of EDIT. Should be focusing
on what the move to Fedora means in the big picture of BHL. Is the architecture sustainable long-term. Need to have Sandy and Thorny
(Fedora) at the meeting. Need to include European partners included. Federating with others--there are significant decisions to be made about BHL portal. Everyone will want everything but need to develop a project plan with an understanding of what components come online and when with the BHL portal. We all need to be able to understand the plan and the future development. A timeline of what we will deliver. Tom will convey to Jim that we want to invite a few European collaborators. Still tentative.

Graham: wants to have a meeting in Germany (Berlin) that will look at all the components developments that are in place or being worked on by the other (outside EOL/BHL) major e-taxonomy projects e.g. EDIT, CATE, GBIF, Key2Nature, SYNTHESYS, ZooBank, etc. Graham and Chris will go and the meeting could happen in early November. Graham and Tom will consult on Thursday if Jim Edwards wants to pursue. Dave Remson and/or Paddy could be invited.

Who is on Paddy's team? One programmer/Consultant (Peter), Patrick Leary, outside group to make web pages, David S? and a couple of
others. Neil Sarkar has been doing aggregation but will be working on a "biology of aging" grant that will be fit into EOL concept.

Tom: Sustainable Digital data preservation and access network partner (NSF) on Nov 6. This is of great interest to us. Webcast and in
person meeting. Since we need to come up with a plan for long-term data preservation---this may be a way to get money for this. Not
just combination of expertise in library and archives --also cooperative work in data access. Monitor and see if applicable.
Copy and involve Neil Thomson since he is working in European and UK (JISC) networks on preservation and digital
sustainability.

Tom: Quarterly report on BHL project due on Friday. getting info out of IA is a bit difficult. Tom will forward a document from Brewster.

Tom: Copyright field--has blocking algorithm. Causing problems because we have some things with written permission.

Next call: Graham is away next week. Cathy away, too., many away on the 16th, Cathy away on the 23rd at OCLC discussing collection
analysis and Graham is away. *Monday Oct 29 at 10 am EST**