Fishing for

the Right Content

Free E-booksin a Sea of

Bianca Crowley Biodiversity Heritage Library Collections Coordinator

American Museum of Natural History (New York)

Academy of Natural Sciences Philadelphia

Botany Libraries, Harvard University

California Academy of Sciences (San Francisco)

Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University

Field Museum (Chicago)

Marine Biological Laboratory / Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Missouri Botanical Garden (St. Louis)

Natural History Museum (London)

New York Botanical Garden (New York)

Royal Botanic Garden, Kew

Smithsonian Institution Libraries (Washington)

http://biodiversitylibrary.org

BHL Digitization OverviewSELECT ION

BHLUser Feedback

Descriptive Metadata

Images, OCR text,

XMLTaxonomic

Name Services

Open Access, Open Data

• All materials in the BHL collection are open access:– Public domain content– Texts without © renewal– Permission granted from the © holder

• Download and re-use of metadata and content files encouraged!

• Data export and web services promote the use of BHL data in conjunction with other projects like the Encyclopedia of Life, JSTOR Plant Science and BioStor.

“Biologists, are inclined to agree that [biodiversity] is, in one sense,

everything.” – E. O. Wilson

Botany

Angiosperms

Bryology

Ferns & allies Fungi Gymnosperms

Medical botany

Geographical distribution

Morphology

AnatomyAmphibiaArthropoda

Cyanobacteria

MolluscaMammaliaIchthyology

Natural history biographies

Atlases & gazetteersBiological diversity

Biodiversity conservationClassification & nomenclature

ExtinctionEvolutionEndangered species

Marine biologyHistory of natural sciences

Arachnida

Entomology

Linnaean works

Zoology

Algae

Plant anatomyPaleobotany

Reproduction

OrnithologyPorifera

Invertebrates

PaleozoologyPrimatology

ReptiliaProtozoa

Phylogenetic relationshipsPre-Linnaean works

Specimen catalogsScientific expeditions

Scientific illustration

Natural history dictionaries & encyclopedias

TaxonomySystematics

GeneticsGeomicrobiology

EcophysiologyForestry

Economic botany

Geobiology

Coral islands, reefs, & atollsContinental drift

Collection & preservation

Natural history directories

Microbial ecology

EmbryologyEcosystems

EcologyConservation biology

Natural history bibliographies

Horticulture

Evolutionary genetics

Agricultural ecology Aquaculture

Biochemistry

Bioacoustics

BiomechanicsBioclimatology Bioluminescence

Animal behavior Animal culture Animal husbandry

Biogeomorphology

Physical anthropology

Plant lore Radioecology

Stratigraphy Taxidermy

Wild animal tradeVivariums, terrariums, & aquariums Zoos

Restoration ecology

Plant culture

Soil ecology

Plate tectonics

Oceanography Phenology

Virology

Natural history terminology

Wildlife conservation

Plant ecology

Plant conservation

Plant physiology

Content Selection

BHL Member Library Contributed Titles

Titles Ingested from the Internet Archive

Survey the waters

Examine your own kind

How do you identify the right content in a sea of possibilities?

Cast a wide net Evaluate

One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Fail

“50 fish from American waters” by Allen & Ginter (188-)

“The Gardeners' chronicle :a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and

allied subjects” (1874)

“Botany” by Brewer, Watson, & Gray 1st & 2nd ed.

Validation of ice skating protocol to predict aerobic power in hockey players /

by Nicholas J. Petrella.

Keeping the body in health, by M. V. O'Shea and J. H. Kellogg

A measure of meter conservation in music, based on Piaget's

theory / by Mary Louise Serafine.

Refining our Bait

• Removed broad terms, like “Biology” and “Evolution”

• Identified useful LCSH terms from the titles ingested in November to add to our criteria

• Identified terms associated with content that we wanted to exclude from our collection, e.g. “Gambling” & “Taxation”

• Targeted specific MARC fields to match on call numbers; added a match against predetermined set of Dewey call nos.

• Matched only against MARC ‘650 |a’s where second indicator equaled 0 (LC) or 3 (NAL)

ConclusionTop 5 subject terms with

initial ingest criteriaTop 5 subject terms post ingest criteria refinement

Agriculture Natural history (Core)

Horses Botany (Core)

Botany (Core) Forests and forestry

Natural history (Core) Trees

Hunting Agriculture

Thanks!http://biodiversitylibrary.org

Bianca Crowleycrowleyb@si.edu

Slides: slideshare.net/lipscombb

Special thanks to Martin Kalfatovic & Suzanne Pilsk, Smithsonian Institution Libraries

Biodiversity Heritage Library

BioDivLibrary