September 14, 2010 BHL Executive Committee notes
- BHL Executive Call September 14, 2010
- Chris Freeland, Tom Garnett, Graham Higley, Martin Kalfatovic, Connie Rinaldo
- 1) Darwin's Library update
Grant Young sent some messages expressing concerns about licensing. Chris talked with Jane and Graham to catch them up on discussions. Chris contacted David Kohn to discuss issues getting content into BHL and the subaward contract for MOBOT about building interfaces. David is concerned about Darwin materials being presented in low-quality way by others. Chris explained the open access agreement and synchronization with BHL, how content goes into Internet Archive, other issues (BHL pdfs being sold by 3rd party, for instance but ok since open access). There is some misunderstanding about how open the content is and how much the technical development costs. Chris also discussed the technical development--needed more money but pared down to standard consultant for 12 weeks which does not cover the needs. There was agreement that project should move forward but need to discuss expectations.
ACTION: Conference call on Thursday (Graham, Jane, Tom, Chris, Grant and David?) to review the requirements of the grant and if they can be met. "Open Access" requirement was part of the JISC grant. BHL is open access period.
- 2) DuraCloud ongoing participation
Learned a lot in the DuraCloud experiment--10 terabytes of our content was put in the DuraCloud. Now that it is there, DuraCloud would like to charge us to keep it there. We will need to deliver BHL corpus to China, is DuraCloud a delivery mechanism? Should we pay to keep content there? Exec decision: Drop it for now.
ACTION: Tom will draft a letter and let DuraCloud know that we are possibly future customers but will drop for now.
Graham noted that in discussions with CISCO the BHL data will be in a cloud in the UK in about a year but not necessarily buying into a cloud, will be buying services directly through provider.
National Library of China, Dep. Director of LC some of the attendees. Tom talked about BHL, BHL China etc. Dr. Jinzhong Cui?, noted that Tom's talk had raised the profile of BHL China in China. Tom also met at the Chinese Acad. of Sciences, inst of Botany and was very impressed with how much they have been doing and their ideas.
Chris noted that the BHL China records so far do not have MARC records (also NHM) which makes a new orange bag problem. We thought that part of the IA process is to grab a MARC record. Martin noted that this step can be side-stepped.
ACTION: Get IA and China and Smithsonian together to discuss this.
Must be pursued. Chris noted that NHM has similar problem but Graham noted these are probably Cambridge items coming out of NHM. The China and NHM issues may be different.
Tom noted that we need to pay attention to communication.
4. Global Tech workshop
Need notetakers. Connie/Martin will do notes on Admin side. Chris has someone for tech side.
Chris noted that there would be a 3rd track: content. Will there be conflicts or overlap? Chris said not. Coming back together at the end for summary/review.
Will take morning to discuss governance and content in afternoon.
Tech track will run all day.
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