SIL BHL September, 11, 2009

NPS Staff and Technical Services Staff Update

BHL Global
- BHL Europe. Project underway
- BHL China. Project to begin shortly
- BHL Australia. Project under discussion
Importation of Other Scanning
BHL will shortly be importing additional materials from other scanning operations. Among the first will be items from the California Digital Library (UC Berkeley, UCLA), other contributors from Internet Archive scanning sources. Bianca Lipscomb is being assisted by staff from all BHL partners to analyze the Internet Archive data ingest to refine those items being pulled in to determine how appropriate the content is to BHL. The "philosophy" of the the ingest content is under discussion here.
Enhanced User Feedback Tools
- BHL is now actively using a new system (Gemini) to track user feedback and problems. The "feedback" button on the top of every page will give you a form to fill out; additionally, EVERY content page now has a link to Gemini (a small yellow triangle); please use this to report problems of any sort. The Gemini database of issues is reviewed constantly and problems reported are assigned to appropriate staff. This tracking and problem assignment will help to resolve issues quickly. It is highly recommended that you use this for issues instead of email.
- New Feedback links for reporting problems (example)

Publicity and Outreach

BHL Meet and Greets
- SIL BHL staff will notify NPS staff of any pulling of material; these notices are funneled through Gil Taylor
- There will be session for MSC researchers scheduled for the near future

Usage Statistics (January - August 2009)

372,618 visitors to the BHL portal
Wikipedia is the 3rd highest referrer to BHL (meaning that people clicked on links in Wikipedia directing them to BHL content; increasingly, Wikipedia editors are linking to species information in BHL)
7,887 visitors to the BHL blog during that same time period; 1% of all BHL blog traffic comes from Twitter and Facebook
Visitors: 227,388
Page views: 1,887,345
Visitors arrive from:
- Google (53%)
- Directly (20%)
- EOL (4%)
- Wikipedia (2%)
Countries/Territories: 222 countries and territories (46% non-US)
7% of visitors have visited over 50 times; 2% (8,000 visitors) have visited over 200 times

Funding

Smithsonian
- Request for continued Seidell support in to the Under Secretary for Science's office
General
- Second round of MacArthur/Sloan funding has been received and will be distributed to BHL members later this month

Still filling in at various IZ locations; most VZ locations are complete (monographs) (More details from Keri)

FedScan (located at Library of Congress) ~ 100-200 volumes per week
NH Scribe (down the hall from the Cullman) ~ special collections, items in need of special handling or care