World wide access to biodiversity literatureThe Biodiversity Heritage Library

Henning Scholz1 & Tom Garnett2

1Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany

2Smithsonian Libraries, Washington, USA

Charles Darwin et al. 1847

The cultivation of natural science cannot be efficiently carried on without reference to an extensive library.

Ten years ago

Virtual libraries (online)

Digital libraries (online)

Download/print books & articles

E-Journals & Open Access

PDF & Email

OPAC, library catalogues

Libraries (travel)

Copy books & articles

Printed material

Reprints & snail mail

Ecosystem of services

BHLBHL-Europe

BHL-China

BHL-Australia

BHL-SouthAmerica

Arab Language BHL

CiteBank

EoL

EuropeanaGRIB EDIT

CoL

VIAF

EJT

vifabio

AnimalBase

Tropicos

BioStor

BHL

http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/

BHL 2007

SIL, MOBOT, AMNH, Harvard Botany Library, MCZ, MBL/WHOI, Field Museum, NYBG

NHM, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew

BHL today

• 87,788 volumes online• 32,706,117 pages online (9.2.2011)

• About 70 Tb data• OCR, page level access• Bibliographic indexing• Taxonomic metadata• Metadata re-use• Open Access

BHL today

BHL today

BHL-Europe

http://www.bhl-europe.eu

BHL-Europe

Main principles:• No digitisation

BHL-Europe is not funded to digitise

• Best Practice Network No research and development project Building a solution with existing (state-of-the-art)

technologies and bring it onto the market Existing European repositories of digital biodiversity

literature into a multilingual BHL-Europe portal and Europeana

Long-term preservation and sustainability

BHL-Europe Partner

BHL-Europe results

GRIB

Aim: Develop bibliographic database (union catalogue with content management and deduplication functionalities).

Global Reference Index to Biodiversity (http://grib.gbv.de)

Collaboration: European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy (EDIT)

User: Scientist, taxonomist, librarian

Europeana

• >15 million objects

• Mona Lisa to Charles Darwin

• Texts, images, videos, sounds

• 88,997 BHL-Europe objects

• Three BHL-Europe partners

• Non BHL-Europe content

BHL-Global

BHL-Global

Regional Requirements

Mass digitisation

Contractual obligations (MacArthur)

Driven by EoL

Service for scientists

Copyright

Technology

Improve interoperability

Contractual obligations (EC)

Driven by Europeana

Service for the public

Copyright

Technology

BioSystematics 2011

You are the user…

…vivid discussions

…future developments

…hands on training

Dr. Henning Scholz Project Coordinator BHL-Europe

Museum für Naturkunde Invalidenstraße 43 D-10115 Berlin

Email: henning.scholz@mfn-berlin.de

http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org http://www.bhl-europe.euhttp://www.bhl-europe.eu

…Questions