SIL Meeting October 2007

Agenda for October SIL BHL Working Group meeting

25 October 2007

• Introduction and Staffing
  • Cole (our new IA scanner)
  • Staffing updates (Martin)
• Meeting Updates (Martin, Suzanne)
  • Open Content Alliance updates
    • Internet plans a foldout scanning scheme
    • Microfilm scanning
    • ISBNs for legacy literature
    • ILL via scanned material
  • BHL/Internet Archive meeting updates
    • Tasks assigned to SIL BHL TSP
      • Specific Staff Assignments
      • Specific Testing Assignments
        • Serials parsing via CiteSeer at Penn State(Suzanne, Conrad)
        • Testing of new WonderFetch® via web interface from picklist (Keri)
• BHL Scanning Survey (Courtney)
  • Who is doing what where?
  • Courtney will be "Collection Manager" Responsibilities will be tweaked at next meeting.
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    1. Maintaining the Wikispaces Collections area of the BHL website, not only for our collections but the other 9 as well (as I get input).
    2. Working with Tom on ascertaining which titless are “doeable.” Thus, I need to hear from him, as least via Martin where various agreements stand.
    3. Turning over to Eliza any titles that are deemed to be needed for preservation.
    4. Hearing from Martin on a regular basis (via emails to us all) on all collection related issues.
    5. Working with Ann to determine what formats, materials, etc. can be scanned.
    6. Working with Tom, Martin, Ann to determine priorities and decisions about what will be scanned next, e.g. Serials, monos, etc.
    7. As Richard and or Gil to keep a running list of serials titles to be scanned next., say 10 at a time.
    8. Work with Suzanne, then Conrad, then…to get the right materials pulled from the shelves.
• SIL BHL Publicity (Martin)
  • Planning for SIL staff event
  • Planning for NMNH event
• SIL TSP Scanning
  • SIL Count: 18,000 page / 328 books (we think this is higher and need to have IA check the stats)
  • Sticker Status
  • Book handling issues, keeping all scanning operations on the same page
  • Workflow - Titles pulled (need to keep full trucks ready for scanning)
    • We need to keep the pipeline full! the "Team Book Pull" (Courtney, Keri, Suzanne) will discuss this offline to make sure we have a steady stream
    • Trucks ready to be scanned
      • Workflow on picking
      • Workflow on review
    • Items scanned
      • Workflow for return
      • Workflow for QC