Breakouts

Penguins: Skunks: Cacti: Beetles: Classroom A - Suzanne Classroom C - Chris Lecture Hall 2 - Connie Ward Lecture Hall - Marie (Theme: Content & Connections): What new types of content, and connections between content, should BHL focus on bringing into its collection in the next 5 years? (Theme: Technical Advancement): What new technologies should BHL adopt and integrate, or plan for, in the next 5 years? (Theme: New Collaborations): What other institutions, domains, or user groups should BHL engage with in the next 5 years? (Theme: Educational Outreach): What kinds of tools does BHL need, and how should BHL be structured, so that its content can be used in educational settings and for other outreach activities? But you can morph!

Breakout Sessions Maintain Expand Innovate Avoid

Breakout Session: Content & Connections Maintain Expand Innovate Avoid Content based on communities (Scratchpads) Accept other scanned content Define CiteBank & make it a trusted repository Article level access Allow annotation & mark-up connect to outside sources OCR corrections Click & go Multi-lingual access Connecting to other databases Scanning more stuff! CiteBank Feedback Charging Closed access Imposing layers of interpretation

Breakout Session: Tech Advancements Maintain Expand Innovate Avoid Bandwidth / Access Common Names Better metadata / granularity Local serving User-created collections & community-building Access to Illustrations Mobile Different resolutions Gaming with a purpose Citizen science “BHL in a Box” Computable text package Non-crowd sourcing Algorithms at scale Older technologies What was cool won’t be Solutions in search of a problem Not going mobile Limiting Access More of the same but better & more Expose all BHL content

Breakout Session: New Collaborations Maintain Expand Innovate Avoid Art and pattern recognition Interface of art & science Expanding into commercial sites Archives, hidden collections, oral histories Maps, posters, framed works Recording designs of spaces in museums, aquaria, zoos Include more government & university collections Expanding into commercial sites

Breakout Session: Educational Outreach Maintain Expand Innovate Avoid Focus groups with intermediaries Expand BLE tool Social networking Explore science & art linkages Add GIS component Tools / API development Access to game designers Computable data Partnerships with publishers for current material Biodiversity Library Exhibitions Tool Harmonize BHL family of portals User feedback about interface Better linkages between BHL & EOL Pay attention to brand Too big, too fast Bad metadata Don’t be valueless