We've Got Issues! Discovering the right tool for

collaboration

Erin ThomasBiodiversity Heritage LibrarySmithsonian Institution thomase@si.edu

The Biodiversity Heritage Library Partners

Academy of Natural Science (Philadelphia, PA)American Museum of Natural History (New York, NY)California Academy of Science (San Francisco, CA)The Field Museum (Chicago, IL)Harvard University Botany Libraries (Cambridge, MA)Harvard University, Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology (Cambridge, MA)Marine Biological Laboratory / Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (Woods Hole, MA)Missouri Botanical Garden (St. Louis, MO)Natural History Museum (London, UK)The New York Botanical Garden (New York, NY)Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Richmond, UK)Smithsonian Institution Libraries (Washington, DC)

Serials, monographs, mongraphic series, associated titles, title changes, duplicate scans, merging records, missing pages, blurry pages, foldouts, page insertion, gaps in serial runs, mischievious metadata, pagination, document delivery, pdf generation, copyright, permissions, sequencing, technical issues, authority lists, navigation, item level corrections, title level corrections, requests, record mismatches..on and on and on...

Much ado over 40,000 Titles; 75,000 Volumes; 30,000,000 Pages...

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Biodiversity Heritage Library's Feedback Form

Is Gemini the answer?

Issue tracking software used by BHL's development staff.

Feedback from the website lands here and BHL staff assign variables

The basic variables..

Task: Collections, Portal Edit: No Risk: Unresolved

Automatic Reports Customizable by Variable: Resource, Component, Resolution

We Can Define Better Wheels!

Square-wheeled trike. Thanks to Jeff Atwood at www.codinghorror.com.

Thanks for Listening! Questions?

Link to the BHL www.biodiversitylibrary.orghttp://biodivlib.wikispaces.com

Link to me:) thomase@si.edu