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BHL participates in the GBIF-CoL-EOL-BHL-BOLD Summit at Naturalis

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On 13 April 2015, BHL Program Director Martin R. Kalfatovic attended the GBIF-CoL-EOL-BHL-BOLD Summit at Naturalis in Leiden, Netherlands. This meeting followed on the preceding Catalogue of Life meeting in Oostende, Belgium. The meeting took place in the historic Pesthuis on the Naturalis campus. Other participants were: The purpose of the meeting was to discuss synergy and explore potential for intensifying collaboration concerning infrastructure, software tools, and services.
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April 22, 2015byMartin R. Kalfatovic
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BHL Program Director presents at the Catalogue of Life Mini-symposium in Oostende

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BHL Program Director Martin R. Kalfatovic attended the Catalogue of Life Mini-symposium at the Flanders Marine Institute in Oostende, Belgium on 2 April 2015.
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April 15, 2015byMartin R. Kalfatovic
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BHL at the 2014 American Libraries Association Annual meeting, Las Vegas, NV

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A number of BHL staff attended the 2014 Annual meeting of the ALA in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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July 8, 2014byMartin R. Kalfatovic
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2014 Annual BHL meeting held in New York City, March 10-11, 2014

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BHL member and affiliates met in New York City for the 2014 Annual Meeting (10-11 March 2014). The annual meeting is a chance for the leaders of BHL members and affiliates to learn what is happening around BHL and to give updates from their own institutions. This year, the meeting was held jointly by the New York Botanical Garden and the American Museum of Natural History. The first day of meetings was hosted by Susan Fraser, Director of the LuEsther T. Mertz Library of the New York Botanical Garden.

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March 18, 2014byMartin R. Kalfatovic
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The TDWG 2013 Annual Conference: my experience as a first timer

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The Biodiversity Information Standards group, also known as TDWG, holds an annual conference every year in a different city around the globe. This year it was held in Florence Italy from October 28th 2013-November 1st 2013. It was my first opportunity to attend the TDWG conference. The conference theme was “virtual communities for biodiversity science” which spoke to me of the increasing opportunities in sharing and connecting biodiversity data via the semantic web environment. I particularly enjoyed the keynote talk by Eric Meyer of the Oxford Internet Institute where researchers study the social implications of the Internet from different domain perspectives.

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November 26, 2013byTrish Rose-Sandler
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Global BHL partners present symposium “Crafting the Future of a Global Biodiversity Heritage Library for Diverse Communities’ Needs” at TDWG 2013

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Six members of the Global BHL community participated in the symposium, “Crafting the Future of a Global Biodiversity Heritage Library for Diverse Communities’ Needs” at the 2013 TDWG Conference in Florence, Italy. The symposium took place on 30 October 2013 and was attended by over 50 TDWG participants. A key portion of the symposium was the closing talk by Connie Rinaldo (Harvard/Museum of Comparative Zoology) which called for feedback on the BHL from the TDWG community.

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November 11, 2013byMartin R. Kalfatovic
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Recap of the 3rd International Conference on African Digital Libraries and Archives and BHL participation.

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We had a very good 3rd ICADLA meeting in Ifrane, Morocco. As part of the Advisory Committee, I was very pleased with the over all program (though disappointed that there was so much confusion in having a representative from the Google Cultural Institute and then the person ended up not attending).The opening keynote, by Misako Ito (UNESCO Office for Algeria, Morocco, Mauritania and Tunisia) provided a good kick off to the meeting.

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June 10, 2013byMartin R. Kalfatovic
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