October 5, 2010 BHL Executive Committee notes

BHL Executive Committee Conference

Attending: Connie Rinaldo, Tom Garnett, Martin Kalfatovic, Cathy Norton, Graham Higley, Chris Freeland

Agenda

A. Lounsbery Proposal
5 possibilities including more money for scanning. Program officer open to many possibilities. $25-50-75,000. Have given money to BHL in the past. Meetings and workshops are quite possible. Development money is not likely because this is too expensive. If scanning, need an angle. When write proposal, reference earlier proposal.

Collections group has developed a more empirically based way to identify what needs to be scanned. "ranking of key texts for species identification in public domain materials".

Integration of Chinese project.

Planning workshop for a funding proposal to advance BHL.

Staff meeting to work out workflow.

Lib Lab conference--ebiosphere--open conference.

What do we think are more important? Martin thinks it isn't enough money for scanning. Cathy thinks we should build on the LIbLab concept. Need to get the same kind of group together to find out what is needed. What direction should we go in now? Bring in the high-end users to find out what they want. Graham agrees. He noted that by next year we will have several different front ends (including a new BHL Classic). Several of the other options could be included in the Lib/Lab option (Chinese integration and workshop). Interoperability is a key component. Cathy wondered about marketing. Europeans and Australians have money for working on logo/branding. For ebioshpere, Sloane, GBIF, EOL....provided funding too. Chicago might be a good place to focus--and maybe some money from the BioSyn. group.

There is concern about keeping staff engaged in continuing to build the collaborative.

ACTION: Tom will clean up the document and provide a smorgasbord of possibilities and ask Lounsbery/Jesse what they might like to fund (BHL collaboration-the next steps, Lib Lab, Chinese integration, focused scanning.)

B. Global BHL Vision doc. Global+BHL+Vision

Follow up to Global tech meeting. (Sorry I missed a few minutes because a faculty member walked in with questions).

C. Technical development
Chris and Mike are going to London to meet about Darwin's Library (Jane Smith, David Kohn, Grant Young). DL tech development person started at MOBOT and will move forward with technical developments.

Chris will try to meet with head of Crossref re DOIs.

William will format the ACTION items from the Global Tech meeting into a shareable document. He will check that the items are moving along.

ACTION: Citebank must be public and available by Dec. 1.

Chris has call with Trish and Bianca tomorrow to prioritize "orange bag" issues. Have lots of article content available. We have the staff now (Trish) and David has put enough work into Citebank so it can function.

D. Field notes--looking for best practices, systems etc. Carolyn used as a fact-finding session/brainstorming.

E. Global Tech meeting very useful. Learned a lot and built relationships. Broader level of contribution than we expected. Generally great comments about the meeting.