bhl program managers' report, annual meeting 2016
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Program Manager’s
ReportCarolyn SheffieldApril 13 | BHL Open Partners’ Meeting 2016
Operations ProgramsOngoing, day-to-day • Financial
Management• Communications• Website & System
Maintenance
Suite of related projects • Workshops• Field Notes in BHL• Some technical
development
Two areas of management…
...that are not mutually exclusive
Operations ProgramsOngoing, day-to-day • Financial
Management• Communications• Website & System
Maintenance
Suite of related projects • Workshops• Field Notes in BHL• Some technical
development
Two areas of management…
...that are not mutually exclusive
BHL WorkshopsPrepare staff at participating
institutions to use BHL systems and follow BHL workflows for contributing digitized literature to the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
BHL Workshops
& EABL (Expanding Access to Biodiversity Literature)
BHL Africa Workshop 2015National Museums of Kenya, September 24-26, 2015
Workshop Planning
Workshop Content– Overview of BHL Consortium &
Collections– Scope – De-duplication– Copyright and Permissions– Scan Requests & Feedback– Imaging–Metadata– Ingest Workflows– Outreach
Topics RAM
Results• Output: 3 day package of content:– 17 presentations– 5 demos – 3 hands-on sessions– 10 one-page summaries for systems &
workflows• Outcome: Evaluations!
Lessons Learned
Overall positive
Not enough time
More hands-on training would be useful
Evaluations
Account setup and login delays
Build in longer hands-on sessions
Plus / Delta
BHL Mexico WorkshopCONABIO, Dec 2-4, 2015
Lessons Learned
Too much info at all at once, before ready for details
However, more detail on copyright issues was of interest
Evaluations
Too much time!
Collecting more information about audience ahead of time is helpful for tailoring
Plus / Delta
EABL WorkshopSmithsonian Libraries, Feb 4-5, 2016
Inspiring Discovery through Free Access to Biodiversity Knowledge
Vision
The Biodiversity Heritage Library improves research methodology by collaboratively making biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community.
Mission
BHL & Field Notes
•BHL Field Notes Project•Smithsonian Field Book
Project•SIL FB Gift •Prior projects, e.g.,
Connecting Content
Field Notes in BHL
BHL Field Notes Project
BHL Field Notes Project• 460,000 pages of field
notes from the past 200 years
• Open access via • BHL • IA• DPLA
• Documentation of project workflows
Looking forward• Content for
crowdsourcing• Highlighting
collection gems• Improving
research efficiency
BHL recent grants receivedhttps://bhl.wikispaces.com/grants
BHL Tech Initiatives
BHL Tech Advisors • Martin Kalfatovic• Joel Richard• Mike Lichtenberg• Susan Lynch• Carolyn Sheffield• Trish Rose-Sandler
Operations ProgramsOngoing, day-to-day functions• Website & System
Maintenance
Suite of related projects • BHL Version 2.0
– Needs analysis– Wishlist– Functional and design
requirements– Iterative development
… not mutually exclusive!
BHL Tech Advisors
BHL Internal Communicatio
ns
• BHL Executive Committee
• BHL Members’ Council• BHL Membership
Committee• BHL Global Committee• BHL Staff• BHL Collections
Committee• BHL Technical Advisors
• Discovery Tools Working Group
• User Feedback Management Working Group
• Cataloging group
BHL Committees & Groups
Communication Methods• Delivered direct to you!– Listservs– Reports & Newsletters
• Come and get it!– Public Wiki– Private Wiki
• Let’s Talk!– Conference Calls– Annual Meetings–Workshops
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BHL OrientationsWelcoming and onboarding
Members & Affiliates• Naturalis• BHL Mexico• Field Museum• BHL Singapore• California Academy
of Sciences• USGS• Library of Congress
