BHL Workflow presentation for Australia

The second of my presentations at the BHL Australian Node meeting.


The Biodiversity Heritage Library: Workflow Overview . Martin R. Kalfatovic and Suzanne C. Pilsk. BHL Australian Node Meeting: Museum Victoria. 2 June 2010. Melbourne, Australia.

The Biodiversity Heritage Library: Workflow Overview

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QF 10: SIN to MEL

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Had a short layover and then picked up the same plane (and seat) for the final leg of trip. Didn't realize it would be over 6 hours from SIN to MEL!

QF 10: LHR to SIN

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This is my first trip aboard an A380. Quite an airplane!

OS 455: VIE to LHR

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I like the way this has a "letter box" look, actually, just the wan the window slats were.

Biodiversity Heritage Library Overview for Australia meeting

Here's my first presentation for the BHL-Australia meeting, June 1, 2010.

3 Years On: The Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin R. Kalfatovic. BHL Australia Kick Off Meeting: Melbourne Museum. 1 June 2010. Melbourne, Australia.

3 Years On: The Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Museum of Natural History, Vienna

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Enjoying my Biodiversity Heritage Library meetings here at the Museum of Natural History, Vienna.

Angry Fish : Dr. Seuss

Angry Fish : Dr. Seuss
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In January 2007 I was at the birthday party for "The Cat in the Hat" held during the American Library Association in conference in Seattle. I took this picture of the fish cake (there were also interesting drinks called Thing One and Thing Two.

So, this picture has been really popular with the Flickr audience, getting, as of today, just over 2,000 views!

CAT Train from VIE to downtown

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Nice and uneventful flight from IAD to VIE. Collected my things and caught the CAT train to downtown and then the U3 subway to near Parliament, and then a short walk to the hotel just before the rrain started!

OS 94: IAD to VIE

And away we go!

Call me Passepartout

Getting ready to head out to IAD (Washington Dulles) for a trip to VIE (Vienna), but that'll be just the start.

From there, it's LHR (London), SIN (Singapore), MEL (Melbourne), CBR (Canberra), SYD (Sydney), SFO (San Francisco), and then back to IAD!

The trip(s) are for a meeting of BHL-Europe and then in Australia, to do some prep-work for the kick-off of BHL-Australia. For most of the trip, I'll be with colleagues from the Smithsonian (the Vienna part of the trip), and Chris Freeland (MOBOT) for both Vienna and Australia.

I feel a bit like Passepartout ("Goes-everywhere in French), the character in Jules Verne's novel, Around the World in Eighty Days. He is the French valet to the novel's English protagonist, Phileas Fogg. So I guess in the BHL Around the World, Chris is Phileas!

Follow the trip on Twitter (#BHLE2010, #BHLAU2010, #WorldTour).

Follow on Flickr Around the world, BHL-Europe, and BHL-AU.

And on the blog, tag World Tour.

Details

• 9 segments
• 26,603 miles
• 2 days 9:39
• 8 Airports
• 4 Carriers
• 5 Countries

Megan Prelinger signs her new book

Be sure to get Megan's new book, Another Science Fiction! Here's the NY Times review. She was at the Smithsonian's Air & Space Museum today (May 24, 2010) doing a book signing.

Mini Golf

Spent the afternoon on the links of the Upton Hill park mini golf.

Final Score:

• Mary 53
• Grace 51
• Martin 43 (two over par)

Curious fungus