SIL February 24, 2010

SIL Staff meeting Feb. 24, 2010

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Attending:

Suzanne Pilsk
Grace Duke
Conrad Ziyad
Bess Missell
Martin Kalfatovic
Gil Taylor
Bianca Lipscomb
Diane Shaw
Vanessa Smith
Keri Thompson
Ann Juneau
Marcia Adams

Not Attending:

Erin Thomas
Kathy Hill

Agenda

BHL Brasil Updates
Please read the updates sent and on the wiki
Tending to the BHL Blog
Grace and Erin will begin to moderate the BHL blog comments; Keri will get the blog set up for this; there will be no censoring of valid content, jus the pure spam
BHL Europe Meetings
Berlin technical meetings currently ongoing; later in the spring, there will be a meeting in Vienna that will focus on metadata and related issues. Suzanne and Bianca may be tapped to attend at the request of BHL-E
Where are we pulling from?
Everywhere, focusing on NH serials; Keri noted that we have a new batch of carts
Scribe camera news
Rumour has it that IA is looking into getting new model (higher res.) cameras
Next pull from BHL Portal to sync with SIRIS
Bess and Suzanne will work with Mike Lichtenberg and Keri to get a list of BHL monographs scanned by SIL
BHL in the news
Robin Everly sent on an article about BHL in Flora North America that she located
Survey status and target names
Bianca reported on the global BHL user survey; a collaboration of BHL Europe and BHL Classic
Collections update - "biodiversity" and "heritage"
Bianca reported on the collectionss committee group (which formed organically); every Monday at 2 pm anyone interested can sit in on the call; discussions ranged around what "biodiversity" and "heritage" mean in the context of our work
EOL Liaison Meeting, Wed. Feb. 24 --Status Report about BHL -- Gil
Ann and Gil will give a BHL update at the NH EOL liaison meeting later today (notes from Gil below):

Here are a few brief BHL-related notes from the EOL-NMNH Liaison Committee meeting this morning (Ann J., who was asked by SIL to be involved in this committee from its inception, invited me to supply a few BHL details).
Along with Ann J. and me, attendees included Cyndy Parr (EOL), Warren Warren Wagner (Bot), Vicki Funk (Bot), Chris (Frederic) Thompson (Ent), Carla Dove (VZ/Birds), Don Wilson (VZ/Mammals), Jennifer Hammock (IZ) Wendy Wiswall, and Cristian Samper.
We had BHL as a brief agenda item, and I gave an update with the current numbers, what libraries had been “done,” and where we are at NMNH, mentioning the improved scanning capability for larger items such as fold-outs. I also talked about the burgeoning global partnerships, which provoked a discussion on similar and overlapping EOL partnerships.
I emphasized that there was wider access than ever to BHL content, like through SIRIS, and that the portal was always being improved. Cristian stressed the importance of getting more NMNH curatorial contributors to EOL, and that EOL content was dependent on the ease of access to the literature through BHL. He said he was confident the BHL project was in good hands.
When I brought up the upcoming BHL survey, Cyndy said that EOL was also in the process of creating a user survey. I’ve mentioned this to Bianca, who will be in contact with her to perhaps coordinate surveys.