- On April 26, 2012, the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, in conjunction with the San Francisco Public Library and the Internet Archive, convened a series of meetings of the six DPLA workstreams at the San Francisco Public Library to discuss key issues pertaining to the DPLA and its core objectives. The goal of these meetings was to chart out agenda items for the next six months of work, as well as to provide a forum for workstreams to share updates and ideas with one another. -- DPLA West Workstream Meetings Press Release (26 April 2012)
While in the Bay Area, we also paid a visit to our BHL colleagues at the California Academy of Sciences (CAS). We also headed down to Cupertino to visit with the Apple iTunes U team. iTunes U had worked with BHL to create a series free BHL-centric resources for users of iTunes. While at Apple HQ (on Infinite Loop), I bought my first iPad at the Apple staff store.
A key portion of the Bay Area visit was a stop on the East Bay where Chris and I took the BART across the Bay to Oakland for meetings and presentations for the staff of the California Digital Library (CDL). At the time, BHL had been working with CDL (as they had content in the Internet Archive harvested by BHL). A few years earlier, in June 2009, BHL signed agreement for CDL content and at the time, CDL was the 3rd largest provider of items after Smithsonian and MBLWHOI Library (9,796 titles).
Here's my presentation for the meeting.
- Kalfatovic, M. (2012, April 24). The Biodiversity Heritage Library: A Vast Library of Life. Information Meeting: California Digital Library (CDL), Oakland, CA. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19710064.
As a bonus, Chris and I headed over to Berkeley after the meeting and went to Chez Panisse for dinner.
