Minutes – October 15, 2013

Posted on January 7, 2014 by mikec
Teleconference 
Telephone: Simon Neame – Chair (IKBLC), Mike Conroy (IKBLC), Tara O’Coffey (VPL), Alissa Cherry (UBCIC), Anita Cocchia (BCELN), Heather Daly (BCTLA), Ben Hyman (BCLCoop), Michael Burris (Federations), Brian Owen (SFU), Kim Stathers (UNBC)
Guests:
Regrets: Ken Cooley (UVic), Jennifer Yuhasz (AABC), Kate Russell (VPL), Allan Bell (UBC Library), Peter Ord (BCMA),
Agenda Item Summary Action
1. Introductions Tara O’Coffey was introduced to the Coalition.  Tara is the new Assistant Manager of Community Digital Initiatives and eLearning and the Vancouver Public Library.  VPL is investigating taking community contributed content into their digital collections
2. Review of Minutes from Last Meeting Mike to post on website
3. BC Bibliography Project Update 

 
  • Design work on the BCBib website is about to start in conjunction with the WBTW.
  • There are now over 400 titles in the BCBib collection.
  • The BCbib committee will be meeting in November.
  
4. Technical Subcommittee 

 

 West Beyond the West Portal

  1. Newspapers and OCR

Technical Subcommittee recommended not passing newspaper OCR to Canadiana as it floods search results with newspaper pages over potentially more relevant results.  Brian suggests clarifying with Canadiana whether or not there could be some technical solution that could filter out the full text and that could be toggled off or on.

  1. Development update
  • Continuing to recruit metadata for the portal
  • Vancouver Island University is the latest institution to contribute metadata.  It should be exposed in the portal later this month.
  • UBC Library has hired an interaction designer to work on several projects. He will begin work on some portal enhancements soon

 

 

Metadata Wrangler

  • VIU metadata has been submitted to Canadiana
  • Coop Student will continue metadata work in January
  • Planning to recruit as much metadata as possible before the student arrives

 

Hosting Service

  • Development of AtoM 2.0 is now complete
  • The hosting service will be transferred from dev to production later this week.
  • Once live, an announcement will go out via email to past BCHDP recipients
  • Email to coalition as well

 

 Mike to follow up with Canadiana re solution see if there is a way newspaper OCR can be switched on or off
5. Communications Update  Along with the WBTW branding alignment with the BCBib, logos will be created to accompany promotional materials for print, web and email. 

Several emails planned where text can be passed along by Coalition members to their constituents or included in their own communications: WBTW Portal, Hosting Service, periodic updates about new additions.

 

 
Next Meeting: Hoping to have another meeting before the new year. Ideally we would like to have one face-to-face meeting and we’ll investigate using skype for those wishing to attend remotely.  A portion of the next meeting will be dedicated to a strategy discussion.
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