October2010BHLStaff

1. CiteBank update - Chris Freeland to join us
2. Global Tech Meeting at MBLWHOI Highlights - Suzanne [With the help from others] (Action Items with priority rankings ACTION+ITEMS )
   1. December 2010 completion of Fedora integration and Citebank
   2. 2012 Funding rolling deadlines
   3. Storage "backups" with clusters: Woods Hole/ MoBot/ IA/ London
   4. Australia's ALA - Living Atlas funded through June 2012
      1. Australian species id in BHL material
      2. Goal is to mirror BHL
      3. OCR correction crowdsourcing Trove example http://trove.nla.gov.au/
   5. Brazil - SciELO
      1. Article level of all science journals - current
      2. Funds to start book scanning
      3. Identified journals that will be the first to begin. Very slow time table to allow for learning
   6. Egypt - Biblioheca Alexandrina
      1. They are doing it all
      2. Really - everything
   7. Logo and Branding concept is moving to the next stage of articulating principles needed
   8. Conferences and meetings of interest: Master list on the wiki to share. Potential presentation opportunities, marketing - but also to gather to at these events to discuss Global BHL topics (Three members in a room = GBHL)
   9. Identifiers. Handles - a creative DOI assigning method potentially
   10. Open Library investigate what is going on there and any collaborative data sharing capabilities
   11. New taxon name finding tool NetiNeti was demonstrated. Currently NOT backward capatible. Potential to use to look for other text strings (geographic terms?)
   12. OCR problem solving: Action item is to write up a problem statement that we are trying to solve and to include example of nasty text problems. Anyone have any good examples of texts that have horrible OCRing?
   13. PDF creation/Articlization improvements made the priority list
   14. Changing the BHL Portal record view - hiding the MARC record to the dashboard in administrative/editing side - and only showing BHL database data with fields mapped to MODs. (Trish will give update on where this work is at)
3. Round-robin
4. Scanlist updates
5. GRIB: http://grib.gbv.de/LNG=EN/
6. IMLS update - KAACHING!
7. IC/EC news
8. Cookbook update: BHL+Cookbook
9. Gemini requests updates
10. Collections group
11. Portal editing updates: Mike L. has added 770, 772, 775, 777, and 787 fields to associated titles drop-down
12. Establish call calendar for the next few months
13. Video conferencing
14. Any other updates from September call