September 4th

4 September 2014

EC Call

BHL EC Call on for today: BHL EC Call: Dial: 1-877-820-7829; Enter the passcode: 407326

On Call: Martin, Susan, Nancy, Connie and WIliam

• Internet Archive posts 2m+ images to Flickr (some background from Martin) being done by a research fellow at Georgetown. We would like to see credit given to contributing library. William suggest we piggyback on this and explore possible interaction with Art of Life. This research fellow created an algorithm that searched OCR files and he used the entire page to extract the images which helped multiply the images once they were captured.
• Lyon Declaration - launched out of IFLA as a result of UN initiative for sustainable development. Should BHL sign (Nancy). Group agreed BHL should be signatory. Smithsonian will likely not be able to join on their own since it constitutes a political action statement.
• MOU Update: comments/thoughts on Eric's (excellent) suggestions. All members to review the MOU and suggested changes and return comments by September 11

Membership committee recommends accepting NAL as affiliate member. Still awaiting affiliate membership applications from Africa and Australia. Smithsonian archives may also be interested.
Renewals-- exec committee members given assignments to follow up with existing members regarding their intent to renew

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• BHL Portal down time earlier this week (William) indicated that the main servers were down and outside contractors were called in to fix problems with the firewall. Problem affected both BHL and Tropicos
• Other Tech Updates (William) finished migrating content from Citebank to BHL with some remaining early journal runs still in JSTOR -- otherwise Citebank is done. Still doing work on purposeful gaming had trouble with the platform at MBG. Working with Tilt factor on input and output and will have some parameters sot discuss in the coming weeks. Grace working on the Mining Biodiversity with a Biodiversity specialist who is helping to define some of the search terms. Grace is going to a Social Media conference in Toronto

Notes from Nature - Zooniverse may let BHL use their platform for classification of images.

MOU -- all to review Eriks suggested changes nd encourage further discussion
Execs will follow up on renewals