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Biodiversity Heritage Library: a global open repository Many thanks to Trish-Rose Sandler, Martin Kalfatovic, William Ulate & all of our many BHL colleagues Jane Smith, Natural History Museum, London & Constance Rinaldo, Ernst Mayr Library, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University Open Repositories 2014

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Biodiversity Heritage Library: a global open repository

Many thanks to Trish-Rose Sandler, Martin Kalfatovic, William Ulate & all of our many BHL colleagues

Jane Smith, Natural History Museum, London & Constance Rinaldo, Ernst Mayr Library, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University

Open Repositories 2014

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What is the Biodiversity Heritage Library?

Internet Archive

• Extensive• Open• Global• Linked

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• Scientific descriptions of animals, plants, nature in general (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=Libraries, Technology & Science

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Firewall

Images (JP2, PDF)Coordinate-based OCR XML metadata

BHL ArchBHL Aitecture: Windoeat

BHL Database

Internet Archive

Storage

Logic

APIs UI Data Export

Access

Data transform Utilities

Geocoding

Namefinding

BHL Architecture

Access

Logic

Storage

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Who is the BHL?

• BHL Central: newest members are Washington University, University of Illinois & National Library of Singapore

• BHL Global: Africa, Australia, Brazil, China, Egypt, Europe, Singapore

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Biodiversity Heritage Library

• Where is the data?• How big is BHL?

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• Public Domain• Publisher Agreements

• US Titles: 249• UK Titles: 69

–TOTAL TITLES: 318• US Licensors: 92• UK Licensors: 41

–TOTAL LICENSORS: 133

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BHL & Social Tools

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Grants

• 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

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BHL Flickr

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http://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:Bird:230252

Connecting Content

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Questions?Extensive Open Global Linked

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Links of interest

• Biodiversity Heritage Library– http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/– http://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/– http://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/sets/

• Encyclopedia of Life: http://eol.org/• Taxonomic Impediment: http://goo.gl/IDnULd• Connie Rinaldo: [email protected]• Jane Smith: [email protected]