Organizational and Technical BHL Meetings

• BHL Executive and Technical Meetings, Missouri Botanical Garden, September 12-13, 2007
• BHL Executive Committee Meetings, Smithsonian Institution Libraries, May 8-10, 2007. General meetings organized around the Encyclopedia of Life launch.
• BHL Workshop Organizational and Technical Meeting. Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University. February 7-8, 2007
• BHL Member staff will attend the Open Content Alliance meeting in San Francisco (October 20, 2006)
• BHL Member staff will attend the TDWG meetings in St. Louis (October 17-18, 2006) for technical discussions
• BHL Member directors or their representatives will meet at the New York Botanical Garden, August 31, 2006
• BHL Members and invited participants met at the Smithsonian Institution on June 12, 2006

Presentations on the BHL by staff from BHL member institutions

2008

• The Biodiversity Heritage Library by Martin R. Kalfatovic and Suzanne C. Pilsk. National Agriculture Library: Issues and Answers Seminar. January 30, 2008. Beltsville, MD.

2007

• BHL talk by Connie Rinaldo. MIT and Harvard Science Librarians Joint Meeting. December 2007. Cambridge, MA.
• The Biodiversity Heritage Library: a Knowledge Domain Enterprise by Neil Sarkar and Tom Garnett. Coalition for Networked Information. Washington, D.C. December 10, 2007.
• Biodiversity Heritage Library by Chris Freeland. Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum, Berlin-Dahlem. December 12, 2007. Berlin, Germany.
• Digitizing Entomology: The Biodiversity Heritage Library at the Smithsonian by Martin R. Kalfatovic. National Museum of Natural History, Department of Entomology Staff Meeting. Martin R. Kalfatovic. November 26, 2007. Washington, DC.
• Plays well with others, or What I’ve learned as a data provider in an interoperable world by Chris Freeland, Missouri Botanical Garden. Museum Computer Network MCN2007. November 8, 2007. Chicago, IL. [link coming soon]
• Applying Taxonomic Intelligence to Digitization Initiatives by Cathy Norton, Marine Biological Laboratory / Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Library. Translating the Value of the Research Library / Information Futures Institute. October 27, 2007. Mountain View, CA. [link coming soon]
• Applying Taxonomic Intelligence to Digitization Initiatives … but First… by Cathy Norton, Marine Biological Laboratory / Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Library. Avoiding Extinction: Translating the Value of the Research Library / Memorial Sloan Kettering Center Center Library. October 24, 2007. New York, NY. [link coming soon]
• Biodiversity Heritage Library Project “Underway” Taxonomic Intelligence for LARGE Scale Digitization Projects by Cathy Norton, Marine Biological Laboratory / Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Library. 33rd IAMSLIC: Changes on the Horizon.
  October 7-11, 2007. Sarasota. FL. [link coming soon]
• Biodiversity Hertiage Library: Progress and Potential by Chris Freeland. Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG). September 17, 2007. September 16-22, 2007. Bratislava, Slovakia. [link coming soon]
• Biodiversity Heritage Library Update: Smithsonian Institution Libraries (January – September 2007). Martin R. Kalfatovic. BHL Meeting @ Missouri Botanical Garden. September 12, 2008.
• The Biodiversity Heritage Library: A Cornerstone of the Encyclopedia of Life. Martin R. Kalfatovic, Smithsonian Institution Libraries. BHL @ SIL. June 25, 2007. Washington, DC.
• An Overview of the New York Botanical Garden Digitizing Program. John Mignault, Systems Librarian, The LuEsther T. Mertz Library, The New York Botanical Garden. BHL @ SIL. June 25, 2007. Washington, DC.
• Universal Access to Human Knowledge: Book Scanning at the Internet Archive. Robert Miller, Director of Books, Internet Archive. BHL @ SIL. June 25, 2007. Washington, DC.
• Open Access to Biodiversity Literature: The Biodiversity Heritage Library by Tom Garnett and Martin R. Kalfatovic, Smithsonian Institution Libraries. American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) Council Meeting. May 15, 2007. Washington, DC.
• The Biodiversity Heritage Library: A Cornerstone of the Encyclopedia of Life by Martin R. Kalfatovic, Smithsonian Institution Libraries. The Field Museum of Natural History. May 8, 2007. Chicago, IL.
  
• The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) Project by Graham Higley, The Natural History Museum (London). London Librarians and Archivists Group: All Change: Adapt and Thrive in a Digital Age. April 26, 2007. London, United Kingdom.
• Biodiversity Heritage Library by Tom Garnett, Smithsonian Institution Libraries. National Museum of Natural History Board, Science Committee. April 12, 2007.
• The Open Content Alliance by Cathy Norton, Marine Biological Laboratory/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. University of Connecticut Spring Forum. April 3, 2007. Storrs, Connecticut.
• BHL Portal: Rectification of Names by Martin R. Kalfatovic, Smithsonian Institution Libraries. BHL Meeting. Harvard University, February 2, 2007. Cambridge, Mass.

2006

• Biodiversity Heritage Library: A Conversation About A Collaborative Digitization Project by Suzanne C. Pilsk and Martin R. Kalfatovic. Library of Congress, November 8, 2006. Washington, DC.
• Botanicus.org: Prototyping a Web 2.0 interface to digitized taxonomic literature by Chris Freeland and Doug Holland, Missouri Botanical Garden. TDWG Meeting. October 17, 2006. St. Louis, Missouri.
• Digitizing the legacy literature of biodiversity: An introduction to the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) by Neil Thomson, Natural History Museum, London. TDWG Meeting. October 17, 2006. St. Louis, Missouri.
• Open Access to Legacy Taxonomic Literature: Index Animalium & The Biodiversity Heritage Library by Courtney Ann Shaw, Suzanne C. Pilsk, and Martin R. Kalfatovic, Smithsonian Institution Libraries. IAMSLIC: Every Continent, Every Ocean. October 8-12, 2006. Portland, Oregon.
• Open Access to Legacy Taxonomic Literature: The Biodiversity Heritage Library by Martin R. Kalfatovic and Tom Garnett, Smithsonian Institution Libraries. NVC National Science Digital Library/NSF. April 25, 2006.
• Open Access to Legacy Taxonomic Literature: The Biodiversity Heritage Library by Martin R. Kalfatovic, Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Refactoring Natural History Literature. April 17-18, 2006. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.