- 1. The Biodiversity Heritage Library Martin R. Kalfatovic
Smithsonian Institution Libraries A Cornerstone of the Encyclopedia
of Life
2. Biodiversity Heritage Library 3. Structure of theEncyclopedia
of Life 4. OH O H 2 N OH H Serine Molecule 5. Education &
Outreach Smithsonian/Harvard Informatics Marine Biological
Laboratory Secretariat Smithsonian Synthesis Center Field Museum
Biodiversity Heritage Library 6. Biodiversity Heritage Library
- 2003, Telluride. Encyclopedia of Life meeting
- February 2005. London. Library and Laboratory: the Marriage of
Research, Data and Taxonomic Literature
- May 2005.Washington. Ground work for the Biodiversity Heritage
Library
- June 2006. Washington. Organizational and Technical
meeting
- August 2006. New York Botanical Garden. BHL Directors
Meeting.
- October 2006. St. Louis/San Francisco. Technical meetings
- February 2007. Museum of Comparative Zoology. Organizational
meeting
7. Biodiversity Heritage Library
- American Museum of Natural History (New York)
- Natural History Museum (London)
- Smithsonian Institution (Washington)
- Missouri Botanical Garden (St. Louis)
- New York Botanical Garden (New York)
- Royal Botanic Garden, Kew
- Botany Libraries, Harvard University
- Ernst Meyer Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology,
Harvard University
- Marine Biological Laboratory / Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institution
James Dwight Dana Zoophytes. Atlas , 1849 8. Taxonomic
Literature
- Over 250 years of systematic description of life
- The cited half-life of publications in taxonomy is longer than
in any other scientific discipline
- The decay rate is longer than in any scientific discipline
9. Literature Repatriation Biologia Centrali-Americana.Edited by
Frederick Ducane Godman and Osbert Salvin.London : Pub. for the
editors by R. H. Porter, 1879-1915 10. Digital Divide? 11. Digital
Divide? Vishwas Chavan travels a lot. An informatician based at the
National Chemical Laboratory in Pune, India, he collects data on
what types of animal live where in India to enter into a
biodiversity database Much of the information Chavan seeks is in
old, out-of-print tomes To find them, Chavan has spent years
trailing around libraries. He dreams of the day when books such as
these are scanned and made available as digital files on the
Internet. Science in the Web Age: The Real Death of Print by
Andreas von Bubnoff Nature438, 550-552 1 December 2005 Henry Walter
Bates The Naturalist on the River Amazons,1863 12. Narrowing the
Divide 13.
- Core literature pre-1923: 400,000 (80 million pages)
- All pre-1923: 600-750,000 (120-150 million pages)
- All literature: 1.4-1.6 million (280-320 million pages)
Biodiversity Heritage Library Mass. Zoological and Botanical
Survey Reports on the fishes, reptiles and birds of Massachusetts ,
1839 14. Changing Priorities
- Open Access for scientific literature
- Encourage re-use and re-purposing of the data in multiple and
diverse systems
- Work with non-commercial publishers to provide access
15. Changing Priorities
- BHL has had discussions with various society publishers as well
as:
T.H. Huxley by Leslie Ward (Spy) 16. Digital Book Creation
- Automated structure detection vital for serials
Richard Owen by Leslie Ward (Spy) 17. BHL Structural Metadata
First Ingest Internet Archive 390888347 45632 390888346 45632
390888345 45632 390888344 45632 390888343 45632 Sub-element Barcode
Bib # 18. BHL Structural Metadata Sub-Element Map Internet Archive
5 390888343 45632 4 390888343 45632 3 390888343 45632 2 390888343
45632 1 390888343 45632 Sub-element Barcode Bib # 19. BHL
Structural Metadata Page Structure Map Internet Archive XML
structure map that delineates the relationships of the images
created automatically 1 390888343 45632 Sub-element Barcode Bib #
0005 0004 0003 0002 0001 Image Number 20. Taxonomic Intelligence
21. Taxonomic Intelligence
- 9.4 million name strings in NameBank
- Uses sophisticated algorithm (TaxonGrab) to locate likely name
strings in OCR text
- Iterative processing of BHL texts will both increase the number
of name strings in NameBank and increase the accuracy of name
string recognition
Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon Histoire naturelle :
gnrale et particulire (Oiseaux) , 1799-1808 22. Digital
Identifiers
- Digital Object Identifiers (DOI)
- Life Science Identifiers (LSID)
Telespiza palmeri Avifauna of Laysan , 1893-1900 23. Digital
Identifiers
- BHL is working with TDWG and others to come up with the best
scheme(s)
Moho bishopi Aviafauna of Laysan , 1893-1900 24. Scalable Mass
Scanning 25. The Internet Archive
- Dedicated to Universal Access to Human Knowledge
- Founder of the Open Content Alliance
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- Archival storage of files
26. Internet Archive Scribe Scanner
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- 200 volumes per shift per week
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- ~ 70,000 pages from a single machine per week
27. Internet Archive Scribe: Boston
- Cooperative facility with the Boston Library Consortium (19 New
England Libraries)
- BHL Members MBL/WHOI and Harvard Libraries will use the
facility
28. Internet Archive Scribe: Boston 29. Internet Archive Scribe:
London
- Projected 5 unit pod to be located at The Natural History
Museum
30. Internet Archive Scribe: London 31. Internet Archive Scribe:
Washington
- Single unit arrived May 5
- Funded by Smithsonian Libraries
- Projected 5 unit BHL pod in National Museum of Natural
History
- Projected 10-15 unit pod shared by Smithsonian/BHL and regional
Washington libraries
- Status: Being installed right now!
32. Internet Archive Scribe: Washington 33. Internet Archive
Scribe: Washington 34. Internet Archive Scribe: Washington 35.
Internet Archive Scribe: New York
- Current BHL plans focus on sharing a 10 unit pod located at the
New York Public Library
- American Museum of Natural History and New York Botanical
Garden will use this facility
Carl von Linn (1707 - 1778) 36. Internet Archive Scribe:
Illinois
- Two machines funded by State of Illinois
- UIUC scanning Fieldiana (all series)
- Arrangement coordinated by Michael Godow and Bryan Heidorn
(UIUC/GSLIS)
- No cost to The Field or BHL
37. Internet Archive Scribe: Illinois 38. Internet Archive
Scribe: Illinois 39. 40. 41. 42. BHL Portal
- Library catalog-like interface to BHL literature
- Enhanced structural analysis to provide volume/issue/article
page access to the literature
- Iterative development based on feedback from user
community
- Provide access to two key audiences:
43. www.biodiversitylibrary.org 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51.
52. BHL Literature Online 1,258,653 pages 627,360 pages via BHL
Portal 53. Biodiversity Heritage Library 54. Biodiversity Heritage
Library