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Unlocking the Index Animalium: From Paper Slips to Bytes and Bits
Smithsonian Institution Libraries Suzanne C. Pilsk
Joel M. Richard
Martin R. Kalfatovic
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Institution Libraries
African Art
African American History and Culture
Anthropology
American Art
American History
Asian and Middle Eastern Art
Aviation history and Space Flight
Design and Decorative Arts
Environmental Management and Ecology
History of Science and Technology
Latino History and Culture
Materials Research
Modern and Contemporary Art
Museology
Native American History and Culture
Natural History
Postal History
Tropical Biology
Trade Literature
World’s Fair Ephemera
Libraries and Librarians
Metadata
How to make THIS into 1’s and 0’s
Digitization
Metadata Fail
The Squire
Metadata Successes
Connecting Index to Sources
Bibliography = Metadata
Lost… Just Lost
Steps to Improve
Vision of Global Natural History Library
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
Taxonomic Literature 2nd Edition
Taxonomic Literature: A selective guide to botanical publications and collections with dates, commentaries and types (second edition)
15 volumes guide to the literature of systematic botany published between
1753 and 1940
Organized by author ~ Citation for the author’s surname
Numbered entries of the author’s publications ~ Suggested short-title & abbreviation of short-title for use in taxonomic publications
TL2 is a standard by which author’s names and titles should be abbreviated
★ Linked Open Data – 5 Stars ★
★ Available on the web (whatever format), but with an open licence
★★ Available as machine-readable structured data (e.g. excel instead of image scan of a table)
★★★ as (2) plus non-proprietary format (e.g. CSV instead of excel)
★★★★ All the above plus, Use open standards from W3C (RDF and SPARQL) to identify things, so that people can point at your stuff
★★★★★ All the above, plus: Link your data to other people’s data to provide context
• Shareable
• Extensible
• Re-Usable
• International
Future
Thanks To Many
• Joel Richard
• Martin Kalfatovic
• Grace Costantino
• Courtney Shaw
• Keri Thompson
• Interns too numerous to name
• Volunteers too numerous to name
• Gilbert Borrego
• Carolyn Sheffield
• Bianca Crowley
• Becky Morin
• Mike Lichtenburg
• David Remsen
• Patrick Leary
• Chris Freeland
And The Birthday Boy: Charles Davies Sherborn
Contact information: [email protected]
Interesting Sources Index Animalium http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/indexanimalium/
Taxonomic Literature New Version
www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/tl-2
Connecting Content
research.calacademy.org/library/fieldnotes
The Field Book Project
www.mnh.si.edu/rc/fieldbooks/index.html
Linked Open Data
linkeddata.org/
Smithsonian Institution Libraries
www.sil.si.edu/
Smithsonian Institution
www.si.edu/
Biodiversity Heritage Library
www.biodiversitylibrary.org/
Internet Archive
www.archive.org/
