Workflow Working Group
Information from
Bowker regarding ISBN (11/2007)
[[BHL+OCLC+Synchronization|OCLC Synchronization with BHL May 2009 discussion]]
Staff conference calls agendas and notes
Reflection on serials workflow, 6+ months into the project:
It should be stressed that the process of scanning our collections is not automatic.
It is a time and work flow intensive process which has to take place before we are able to utilize all of the tools which are being developed to help streamline the process. There are no tools besides a your hands, eyes, and a brush- to investigate the condition of old and decaying texts to prepare them for the stresses those volumes chosen to be scanned will undergo.
When volumes return from scanning, they undergo another round of hands on treatment which completes their physical role in this project. Occasionally a volume will need to go through much of the process anew, if technical issues have arisen which require the process to take place again. The workers are going through progressive waves of processing, pausing, discussion, and processing, and all of these states constitute moving forward in this project. Over time the entire process will naturally streamline and pages scanned will accrue at an appreciable incremental rate.
Matt Person, MBLWHOI, 3/18/2008
June 12 2006 Meeting Workflow Working Groups
- Workflow - SEE THE NHM WORKFLOW DIAGRAMS and discussion of WORKFLOW
- Post OCLC Analysis/Data Returns
- Extraction of Metadata Records to OCLC
- Skinny End to End Pipeline
- Metadata Repository and Data Analysis
- Bernard Scaife, NHM London
- Suzanne Pilsk, SIL
- Chris Freeland, MOBot
- Martin Kalfatovic, SIL
- John Mignault, NYBG
- Robin Wendler, HUL
- Neil Thomson, NHM London
- Ed Chamberlain, NHM London
- Sebastian Hammer, IndexData (observer)
- Joe DeVeer, MCZ Harvard
Latest Workflow diagrams from NHM:
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