Biodiversity Heritage LibraryDuraSpace Project

Martin R. Kalfatovic | Smithsonian Institution LibrariesDuraCloud Webinar | 16 December 2009

American Museum of Natural History (New York)

Academy of Natural Sciences Philadelphia

California Academy of Sciences (San Francisco)

Field Museum (Chicago)

Natural History Museum (London)

Smithsonian Institution Libraries (Washington)

Missouri Botanical Garden (St. Louis)

New York Botanical Garden (New York)

Royal Botanic Garden, Kew

Botany Libraries, Harvard University

Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University

Marine Biological Laboratory / Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

>>> all BHL storage is handled by the Internet Archive

>>> 38,000+ scanned books

>>> approximately 48 terabytes of data

>>> unable to self-host

BHL Partner Libraries

BHL + >100 other libraries with open access content at archive.org

Distributed storage – Archival

Fedora-commons is an opensource repository

Accounts for all changes, so built-in version control

Provides disaster recover

Open standards to mesh withfuture file formats

Provides open sharing servicessuch as OAI-PMH

BHL is participating in the DuraSpace DuraCloud pilot

DuraSpace would provide a link to cloud providers

Pilot to show feasibility of hosting

Testing use of image server, other services in the cloud

Thanks

Martin R. Kalfatovic | Smithsonian Institution LibrariesDuraCloud Webinar | 16 December 2009

• Phil Cryer• Chris Freeland• Tom Garnett