- The Harvard University Botany Libraries and the Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, along with the partner institution libraries of the American Museum of Natural History, the Field Museum, the Missouri Botanical Garden, The New York Botanical Garden, the Academy of Natural Sciences, and the Internet Archive, will plan a cost-effective and efficient large-scale digitization workflow with enhanced metadata for biodiversity library materials designated as “special collections.” The partners propose to identify solutions for digitization of special collections materials by developing and comparing various technological, economic, and process models. -- IMLS Grant: LG-50-08-0058-08
On 20-21 April 2008, a meeting was held at the Academy of Natural Sciences (Philadelphia) to work on deliverables for the grant. See article cited below for outcomes.
As with all BHL meetings, there was also an opportunity to visit library and museum collections.
Participants in the meeting included:
- Constance Rinaldo (Harvard, MCZ and project lead)
- Judith Warnement (Harvard Botany Library)
- Tom Baione (American Museum of Natural History)
- Martin R. Kalfatovic (Smithsonian/BHL)
- Susan Fraser (New York Botanical Garden)
- Doug Holland (Missouri Botanical Garden)
- Robert Miller (Internet Archive)
- Eileen Matthias (Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia)d
See also the related publication:
- "Retooling Special Collections Digitisation in the Age of Mass Scanning," with Constance Rinaldo, Judith Warnement, Tom Baione, and Susan Fraser. Ariadne. Issue 67, July 2011. http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue67/rinaldo-et-al/
