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We've Got Issues!
              Discovering the right tool for
                    collaboration

Erin Thomas
Biodiversity Heritage Library
Smithsonian 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...




Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:
Re:Re:Re:The Problem
with the Portal....
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.org
http://biodivlib.wikispaces.com

Link to me:)
thomase@si.edu

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We ve got_issues

  • 1. We've Got Issues! Discovering the right tool for collaboration Erin Thomas Biodiversity Heritage Library Smithsonian Institution thomase@si.edu
  • 2. 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)
  • 3. 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...
  • 4. Much ado over 40,000 Titles; 75,000 Volumes; 30,000,000 Pages... Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re: Re:Re:Re:Re:Re: Re:Re:Re:The Problem with the Portal....
  • 6. Is Gemini the answer? Issue tracking software used by BHL's development staff.
  • 7. Feedback from the website lands here and BHL staff assign variables
  • 9. Task: Collections, Portal Edit: No Risk: Unresolved
  • 10. Automatic Reports Customizable by Variable: Resource, Component, Resolution
  • 11. We Can Define Better Wheels! Square-wheeled trike. Thanks to Jeff Atwood at www. codinghorror.com.
  • 12. Thanks for Listening! Questions? Link to the BHL www.biodiversitylibrary.org http://biodivlib.wikispaces.com Link to me:) thomase@si.edu