Specimen collections

Databases

Publications

Observations

‘Gray’ literature

Index cards

Field notebooks

Taxonomic Impediment

Technology Library Science

Biodiversity Heritage Library

BHL “classic” or US/UK: 15 institutions …Formed in 2006, 13 members and 2 affiliates

15 Members

•Academy of Natural Sciences Library and Archives •American Museum of Natural History Library •California Academy of Sciences Library •Cornell University Library •The Field Museum Library •Harvard University Botany Libraries •Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology •Library of Congress •Marine Biological Laboratory and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Library •Missouri Botanical Garden Library •Natural History Museum, London, Library & Archives •The New York Botanical Garden •Royal Botanic Garden, Kew, Library & Archives •Smithsonian Institution Libraries •United States Geological Survey Libraries

BHL “classic” or US/UK: Key Organizational Points

• BHL is not a legal entity; fiduciary and legal agreements are generally delegated to individual members

• Membership is governed my a Memorandum of Understanding signed by all members

• Two levels of membership (as of 2013):

• Member (voting and administrative input); annual dues of $10,000 USD

• Affiliate (provide content or other services to BHL; no voting or input into overall BHL direction)

• BHL Secretariat (Administrative component), housed at the Smithsonian Libraries

• BHL Technical Team (housed at Missouri Botanical Garden)

• BHL Executive Committee (elected by Members): Chair, Vice-Chair and Secretary

BHL Institutional Council | Woods Hole | May 2013

Secretariat and Technical Staff August 2011 Program Director

Program Manager

Collections Coordinator

Technical Director Programmer Data Analyst

What is Biodiversity Content?

Collection Management Cycle

Deduplication

Digitization

Users

Curation

Selection

Selection

High-yield taxonomic materials

Unique & rare materials

Permissions titles

User requested titles & gap-fills

Discipline specific subject matter

Non-BHL member materials ingested from the Internet Archive

ACTIVE /HIGH

PRIORITY

PASSIVE /LOW PRIORITY

Increase agreements with publishers of in copyright materials

US Titles: 206 UK Titles: 67 TOTAL TITLES: 273 US Licensors: 85 UK Licensors: 40 TOTAL LICENSORS: 125

Digitization Workflow

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Macaw software here

Internet Archive Scanning

Northeast Regional Scanning Facility (Boston)

New Jersey Facility

Natural History Museum, London

Fedscan (Library of Congress)

Internet Archive (San Francisco)

Smithsonian Libraries

Missouri Botanical Garden (Non-Scribe operation)

Scanning Operations: Macaw

41,510,620 pages

118,151 items

62,754 titles 19 September 2013

Content Growth

2007-2013

… and now including segments

92,356 “segments”

New Content Types

Field Books and other archival materials Stand along or linked illustrations

Secretariat

Technical

Member operations

BHL Expenditures

233 countries Users in 233 Countries

User Statistics: 2007 - 2013

Visitors: 3,628,088 Page Views: 17,604,395 New vs. Returning: 50.06% vs. 49.04%

2007

2013 146,798 visitors | November 2012

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I am thrilled with what I have been able to find re: archaic mammary embryology some of which I had been hoping to find at the National Library of Medicine, and to get it through your program was a huge advantage. Last night I believe I requested and received 11 PDFs, all of which are essential to a review paper* I am completing. Olav T. Oftedal PhD Smithsonian Environmental Research Center * “Evo-Devo of the Mammary Gland” by Oftedal, et al. Journal of Mammary Gland Biology and Neoplasia (May 2013)

Facebook Total Page Likes: 4,384

Twitter @ BioDivLibrary Total Followers: 2,369

Pinterest 2,373 images & 16 collections

Blog Total Visits: 9,096 (2Q13)

BHL Social Media February 2013

3.8 million total views | 63,000 images (13 Feb 13)

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Images (JP2) PDF Coordinate-based OCR XML metadata

BHL Architecture: Window Seat Ed.

BHL DB

Internet Archive

Storage

Logic

APIs UI Data

Exports

Access

Data Transform Utilities

Geocoding

Name Finding

Trish Rose-Sandler, Missouri Botanical Garden DLF Forum 2012 Denver CO Art of Life project

Scanning Locally, Collaborating Globally

6 global nodes: By country, region, language Each node is independent and self-organized, but work under a

set of common principles Share content as much as possible Node leaders form a Global Coordinating Committee Goal is to share a common portal where possible Goal is to develop multi-lingual portal

Trish Rose-Sandler, Missouri Botanical Garden DLF Forum 2012 Denver CO Art of Life project

BHL Africa Launch | Pretoria | April 2013

Global BHL Steering Committee August 2011 Vice Chair

Secretary

Chair

Looking Forward

In any well-appointed Natural History Library there should be found every book and every edition of every book dealing in the remotest way with the subjects concerned.

Charles Davies Sherborn Epilogue to Index Animalium, March 1922

Thank you! Enkosi! Danki! Ngiyabonga! Ke a leboha! Ndzi khense ngofu Ndi a livhuwa