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| Group Photo from 9-10 March 2009 BHL Architecture Meeting (Woods Hole) |
In March 2009, BHL held an architecture meeting in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Woods Hole is home to many major scientific organizations including the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI), NOAA Fisheries Woods Hole Laboratory , and the U.S. Coast Guard Sector Southeastern New England. The early years of BHL saw many meetings in the Woods Hole facilities.Tom Garnett (BHL Program Director), Bianca Crowley (BHL Collections Manager), and Chris Freeland (BHL Technical Director from the Missouri Botanical Garden, MOBOT) led the meeting. Chris was joined by other tech staff from MOBOT, including Mike Lichtenberg (who went on to be the key developer of BHL), Phil Cryer, Chris Meyers. Other staff attending from across BHL were:
- Natural History Museum, London (Adrian Smales, Bernard Scaife)
- Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard (Connie Rinaldo, Joe deVeer)
- The New York Botanical Garden (John Mignault),
- Smithsonian Libraries (Suzanne Pilsk, Martin Kalfatovic),
- MBLWHOI Library (John Furfey, Ahmed Hamed, Maggie Rioux, Diane Rielinger, Anthony Goddard)
- Encyclopedia of Life/MBL (David Patterson, Patrick Leary)
- BHL Europe/Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (Henning Scholz)
The combined library of WHOI and MBL, the MBLWHOI Library, was a founding member of BHL and an important node for bioinformatics. The MBLWHOI Library was led by Cathy Norton (also in attendance) who was the BHL Executive Committee Vice-Chair.
The meeting was also significant in that this was perhaps the first BHL meeting attended by a representative of the recently formed BHL Europe (Henning Scholtz).
Other key topics included:- BHL Article Repository (later to become CiteBank). Presentation by Phil Cryer
- The "Orange Bag" problem (named after an orange bag sent to Chris Freeland with content to upload to BHL) -- original photo here
- A presentation by Chris Freeland on the "BHL Flipbook"
- The team from EOL/MBL also gave a presentation on taxonomic name finding, something that would become a cornerstone of BHL's success
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| Papers and Laptops |
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| Swope Academic Housing |
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| Tom Garnett, Henning Scholtz, John Furfey |
