SIL March 21, 2012

SIL BHL Task Force

21 March 21012

• Google Ingests
  Collections Committee has officially decided that BHL will not ingest Google content from the Internet Archive
• Staff Call on Thrusday!
• Interns and Volunteers
  BC and Trish are working on a way coordinate interns ad volunteers; will have a prioritization list; Mike L. working on institution specific logins
• BHL Search
  Has been improved and we can do keyword and fuzzy matching on metadata. WIll be promoted on the blog, etc. Please send Mike any input that you might have.
• BHL Booth at SLA
  SLA is in Chicago, Christine G. asked if we wanted to to a booth. Seemed a bit pricey and MK wanted to hold off.
• USGS and Macaw
  USGS will install a Macaw server; in process now; working on getting their ZFetch going
• BHL IC and SC meeting
  GC, BC, MK reported on the meetings in Cambridge; full notes on the wiki
• BHL Overview for SIL and SI staff
  SP proposed that we do a major presentation and update on BHL for SIL and SI staff in the near future