Hi All,

Great to see you all this last week. I'm sending out December's monthly meeting notes, recording, and the recap below:

🎦 RECORDING🎦

🚀ACTIONS 🚀

@Tiago Lubiana to add a sub-page on meta for the BHL-wiki wg.
@Dearborn, JJ to add tickets for Siobhan’s engagement activities.
Everyone: Send GitHub usernames to JJ for access to the scoping group metrics page; you must be logged in to github to see the metrics page.
Everyone: Add the new BHL badge to your user page ❤️

✅ DECISIONS ✅

We will curate and differentiate distinct images in Commons using the BHL page identifier as a guide.
We will prioritize SDC work on BHL sourced images over images from the IA Book Images collection.
We will handle duplicative digital objects from BHL partner collections, on a case-by-case basis.

💡FYIS 💡

New group outputs for review

BHL FAQ Rewrites <-- these will be used to update the BHL About site
Wikimedia Commons Improvements from BHL-WIKI <-- add anything else you would like to see here; we compiled the top 3 from the last few months conversations.
Biodiversity User Group Investigation <-- we will continue this conversation next time with Jake

Recent Talks

@Siobhan Leachman Presented to the New Zealand Herbarium Network on Wikidata. https://bit.ly/BotanyWikiWork
@Siobhan Leachman Presented to the WOMNH group at the ‘Tell me where the women are’: WOMNH Network Launching Event on BHL women scientific illustrators. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14362323

Upcoming Events

Call for organized sessions due 12 February 2025, abstract call will be announced in March for Living Data 2025. Learn More
Wikimedia Commons Improvements for BHL Project. Commons Community Calls (@Andy Mabbett, @Siobhan Leachman, and any one else may attend to rep BHL-Wiki user needs)

November Monthly Highlights

Add any monthly highlights to our rolling doc and we will distribute across communication channels:

Please feel free to forward this message on. Thanks everyone and happy holidays and see you next year! 🎄🎁

JJ Dearborn

Data Manager, Biodiversity Heritage Library |

Smithsonian Libraries and Archives

1000 Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, D.C.