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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 [email protected]
Slides: slideshare.net/lipscombb
Special thanks to Martin Kalfatovic & Suzanne Pilsk, Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Biodiversity Heritage Library
BioDivLibrary