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MORE THAN THE SUM OF ITS PARTS: THE BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE LIBRARY
Connie Rinaldo & Jane Smith
+ + =?
“The cultivation of natural science cannot be efficiently carried on without reference to an extensive library”
Charles Darwin, et al (1847)
The Wherefore of BHL
What is BHL?• “The BHL works collaboratively to make biodiversity
literature openly available to the world”• Biodiversity and its literature is global
– Repatriation – Accessibility of local information
• Global talent, resources & content • Collaborations on funding & technological
advancements• Developing standards
Por se global?• Biodiversity is global• The literature is global
– Repatriation – Accessibility of local information
• “The BHL works collaboratively to make biodiversity literature openly available to the world”
• Leverage global talent, resources & content • Collaborations on funding & technological
advancements• Developing standards
• Scientific descriptions of animals, insects, plants, (Taxonomic literature)
• Type in a taxon name and find all detected occurrences in the text corpus.
• Systematic biology is easier for scientists—the taxonomic impediment is resolved.
BHL=Open + Linked +Libraries, Technology & Science
Specimen collections
Databases
Publications
Observations
‘Gray’ literature
Index cards
Field notebooks
Taxonomic Impediment
Supporting open science research
Science Gossip Collaboration between Zooniverse,
University of Oxford (AHRC funding – Constructing Scientific Communities),
Missouri Botanical Gardens, BHL
Ryan Schenk, Synonyms
http://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:Bird:230252
Connecting Content
Use
“Why use Google when you have BHL” (Dr. Matthew von Konrat, Head of Botanical Collections, Field Museum)
“The Biodiversity Heritage Library is the richest, fully open resource for original species descriptions.” (@dpsSpiders, Biodiversity Informatics Manager
Comment on announcement November 2014 – BHL milestone 45 million pages+ online J just to follow up - I have just come back from Brazil and I cannot tell you how important BHL is in changing the way people do taxonomy, especially in the so-called developing world; combined with Global Plants it makes it a totally different world to the one I began my career in!! The playing field levelled..... congratulations.... Sandy
Facebook Page Likes: 11449
BHL Social Media 2015
Twitter @ BioDivLibraryTotal Followers: 6597 Blog
Total Visits: 10,407
Flickr97,754 images
• US/UK (#1 & #2): 385,684/99,629
• Germany (#3): 93,161 • Brazil (#5): 73,224 • France, Australia (# 7), Canada,
Italy, Spain, Mexico (#11), Japan, Netherlands, Russia, China (#15), South Africa (#26), Czech Republic (#24), Singapore (#38)
• Total Annual Use: 1,565,405
8518 (#4)
46,98510,635
Google Analytics: Most recent month accesses by country. (225 countries total)
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430
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Collaborations
Internet Archive
• Extensive• Open• Global• Linked
Challenges
• Sustainability– Mixed funding model
• Virtual Organization • Collaboration
– Communication: language, culture• Content aggregationBy working towards the same goal: Open access to biodiversity literature for the world; we achieve more even though there are challenges.
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How we work: Communication challenges
2 AM + 1 day 6 PM
6 PM
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6 pm9 AM
• Public Domain• Publisher Agreements
• US Titles: 249• UK Titles: 70
– TOTAL TITLES: 318• US Licensors: 92• UK Licensors: 41
– TOTAL LICENSORS: 134
Scale and Problems of Mass Digitization of Library Materials
Funding• MacArthur & Sloane grants via EOL• Membership dues• Connecting Content: A Collaboration to Link Field Notes &
Published Literature• The Art of Life: Data Mining & Crowdsourcing the Identification &
Description of Natural History Illustrations from the Biodiversity Heritage Library
• Purposeful Gaming & BHL: engaging the public in improving & enhancing access to digital texts
• Digging into Data: Mining Biodiversity Project
LinksBHL website: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/
BHL Blog: http://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/
BHL content on Flicker: http://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/sets/
Encyclopedia of Life: http://eol.org/
Speaker contacts: Connie Rinaldo: [email protected]
Jane Smith: [email protected]
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