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Martin R. Kalfatovic Twitter@BHLProgDirector Program Director Biodiversity Heritage Library Smithsonian Libraries Empowering Global Research in Biodiversity The Biodiversity Heritage Library BHL Open Day Symposium 16 March 2017| Singapore Botanic Garden

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Martin R. KalfatovicTwitter@BHLProgDirector

Program Director

Biodiversity Heritage Library

Smithsonian Libraries

Empowering Global

Research in Biodiversity The

Biodiversity Heritage Library

BHL Open Day Symposium

16 March 2017| Singapore Botanic Garden

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Selamat Pagi!

Good morning!

காலை வணககம!

早上好!

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“The cultivation of natural

history cannot be efficiently

carried out without reference to

an extensive library.”

Charles Darwin, et al (1847)

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Extensive. Open. Global

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Inspiring Discovery through Free Access

to Biodiversity Knowledge

Over 10 years of inspiring discovery

15th

-21st

centuries

through free & open accessto biodiversity literature & archives

from the

Mission

The Biodiversity Heritage Library improves research

methodology by collaboratively making biodiversity

literature openly available to the world as part of a

global biodiversity community.

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A global project that encompasses

Technology Libraries Science

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Biodiversity then …

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Natural history literature and archives contain

information that is critical to studying life on Earth.

SPECIES

DESCRIPTIONS

DISTRIBUTION

RECORDS

HISTORY OF

SCIENTIFIC

DISCOVERY

CLIMATE

RECORDS

INFORMATION

ON EXTINCT

SPECIES

SCIENTIFIC

OBSERVATIONS

ECOSYSTEM

PROFILES

SCIENTIFIC

ILLUSTRATIONS

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Extensive. Open. Global

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“Last year I threw down the gauntlet to [BHL staff] and asked if

there was any possibility of BHL arranging to have made available

the entire run of the UK periodical The Gardeners' Chronicle. I

asked because there is nowhere in my country of residence

(Denmark) that holds it, requiring that I make time consuming and

expensive research trips to London or Cambridge in the UK should I

wish to examine the periodical. I was amazed and delighted that

BHL has achieved what I asked. This contribution to the BHL

catalogue has been a real boon to my research.”

Dr. Toby MusgraveHorticulturalist & BotanistLecturer, Danish Institute for Study Abroad

EXTENSIVE

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“Biologists are

inclined to agree

that it [biodiversity]

is in one sense

everything” E.O. Wilson

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BHL can’t have

everything, but we

try to include as

much as possible!

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51+MILLIONPAGES

TITLES VOLUMES

114,000+ 194,000+

173+MILLIONINSTANCES OF TAXONOMIC NAMES

578+IN-COPYRIGHT TITLES LICENSED FOR BHL

AGREEMENTS

WITH 250+LICENSORS

*Stats as of February 2017

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Systema naturae

per regna tria

naturae.Ed. 10, 1758.

Carl von Linne.

biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/542

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Considered the starting

point of zoological

nomenclature.

Listed about 10,000

species of organisms, of

which about 6,000 are

plants and 4,236 are

animals.

The earliest work in BHL is

Theophrasti De Historia plantarum liber primus

(1483)

biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40913187

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Not just “heritage”

collections

> 23% of BHL's collection of

188,970 items is post-1922

> 72.3% of BHL’s collection is

free of copyright restriction in

the United States

As of August 2016

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Logbook of the

yacht "France"Whitney South Sea

Expedition of the American

Museum of Natural History

Volume: v.2 (1926-1928)

biodiversitylibrary.org/page/44821245

__________________

BHL includes over 100,000

pages of Field Notes and

related archival material.

Ongoing transcription projects

will make these fully

searchable.

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Bonn Zoological

Bulletin 61 (1): 135-

39 (July 2012)

biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4482124

___________________

With the assistance of

BioStor, BHL now indexes

over 202,000 articles,

chapters or other “segments”

of BHL content.

These are all searchable

through the bibliographic

interface to BHL.

Scotopteryx kuznetzovi

(Wardikian, 1957)

(Lepidoptera, Geometridae,

Larentiinae),

a new species for the fauna of

Iran and Turkey

Hossein Rajaei Sh.* & Dieter

Stuning

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Charles Darwin’s Library

biodiversitylibrary.org/browse/collection/darwi

nlibrary

___________________

A digital edition and virtual

reconstruction of the surviving

books owned by Charles Darwin.

It also provides full transcriptions of

his annotations and marks. These

works provide important insight into

the development of Darwin’s ideas

on evolution and natural selection.

"If this were true, adios theory"

Charles Darwin wrote these words

in response to reading Principles of

Geology, v. 2 (1837) by Charles

Lyell, who was arguing that changes

in species have limitations. Darwin,

on the other hand, argued that

changes in species are infinite and

continuous, an integral concept

crucial to his theory of evolution.

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“[BHL] is a fantastic resource, making research possible

that would never have been considered in the past. I use it

to find information on particular species and also to find

source documents for further analysis. The ability to

search by taxon name is invaluable.”

Dr. Quentin GroomResearch Assistant and Biogeographer

Botanic Garden Meise, Belgium

OPEN

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A Commitment to Open Access…

BHL is a charter signatory of the Bouchout Declaration

for Open Biodiversity Knowledge Management.

Fundamental principles of the Declaration:

Free & Open Use

Policies to Foster Free &

Open Access

Persistent Identifiers

Tracking Identifiers to

Ensure Attribution

Infrastructure, Standards &

Protocols to Improve Access

Linked Data

Sustainable Knowledge Management

Registers for Content &

Services

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CUSTOM PDF

DOWNLOADS

517,000+

TO DATE

ARTICLE

INDEXING

202,000+

TO DATE

DOI

ASSIGNMENT

104,000+

TO DATE

BHL offers a range of free services

API &

DATA

EXPORTS

TAXONOMIC

NAME

SEARCHING

REFERENCE

MANAGEMENT

TOOLS

*Stats as of November 2016

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Agatea violaris

Type specimen from the

U.S. National Herbarium

(Smithsonian Institution)

collected by the United

States Exploring

Expedition, 1838-1842

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Agatea violaris

Type specimen from the

U.S. National Herbarium

(Smithsonian Institution)

collected by the United

States Exploring

Expedition, 1838-1842

Illustration from the USExEx

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Species Description from the USExEx

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“Congratulations on a superior on-line library service that is of

great help to anybody that has no direct access to old literature

(like many scientists in developing countries). I used to be

located in the Natural History Museum in Leiden, Netherlands

with an excellent library, but after my retirement I moved to

Brazil and lost direct contact with the Leiden library. In many

cases BHL now provides what I am looking for.”

Dr. Marinus HoogmoedCurator of Reptiles and Amphibians, 1963-2003Naturalis Biodiversity Center

GLOBAL

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BHL is a Global Consortium

18MEMBERS

AS OF MARCH 2017

15AFFILIATES60+ WORLDWIDE PARTNERS

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1. London2. New York3. Mexico City4. Paris5. Sydney6. Berlin7. Washington8. Melbourne9. New Delhi10. Sao Paulo

Top 10 Cities by Sessions, CY 2016

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1. Bangkok2. Quezon City3. Singapore4. Jakarta5. Hanoi6. Makati7. Kuala Lumpur8. Cebu City9. Ho Chi Minh City10. Surabaya

Top 10 ASEAN Cities by Sessions, CY 2016

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5.9+MILLIONTOTAL USERS TO DATE

AVERAGE MONTHLY

USERS (CY16)109,000+

11+ MILLIONTOTAL WEBSITE VISITS TO DATE

AVERAGE MONTHLY

VISITS (CY16)176,000+

VISITS FROM

243COUNTRIES &

TERRITORIES

*Stats as of February 2017

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124,295 users

February 2016

CY 2016

2.123m sessions

1.162m users

96,862 users/month

2007-2016

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8.51% sessions

Mobile Sessions CY 2015

10.45% sessions

Mobile Sessions CY 2016

Mobile sessions increase by 34.43% over the past year

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“BHL is radically changing the status quo and

democratizing access to knowledge about

biodiversity. Now anyone in the world has

instant access to the original species

description in a couple of clicks.”

Dr. John SullivanEvolutionary BiologistAcademy of Natural Sciences, PhiladelphiaCornell University

GLOBAL &

COLLABORATIVE

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BHL collaborates with and contributes

content to a variety of partners…

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BHL collaborates with and contributes

content to a variety of partners…

Two more recent collaboration opportunities

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Engagement

BHL is used in exhibitions in our partner institutions, such as “Once There Were Billions” at the National Museum of Natural History.

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“BHL provides an excellent service for studies

of marine and other biodiversity. I’ve said it

before, you folks do a great job. Keep up the

good work; you’ve got lots of admirers out

there.”

Dr. Thomas CarefootMarine BiologistUniversity of British Columbia, Canada

Expanding Directions

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107,000+

IMAGES IN FLICKR

TOTAL IMAGES

TAGGED29,900+

202+MILLIONTOTAL VIEWS ON IMAGES

OF TOTAL FLICKR

COLLECTION TAGGED

TAGGED IMAGES IN

EOL

27% 18,000+

BHL FLICKR NAMED 1 OF WIRED’S

27 MUST-FOLLOW FEEDS IN

THE WORLD OF SCIENCE*Stats as of November 2016

WWW.FLICKR.COM/BIODIVLIBRARY

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Engage with audiences

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Support BHL Financial SustainabilityCafePress: http://www.cafepress.com/biodiversityheritagelibrary

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64,500+TOTAL FOLLOWERS ON

SOCIAL MEDIA

TOTAL FOLLOWERS

11,800+

TOTAL FOLLOWERS

11,400+

TOTAL FOLLOWERS

32,300+

TOTAL FOLLOWERS

5,000+

AVERAGE MONTHLY

READERS (CY16)

2,300+

FOLLOW @BIODIVLIBRARY

*Stats as of February 2017

TOTAL FOLLOWERS

4,000+

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AWARDS

• Digital Library Federation (DLF) 2016

Community/Capacity Award (joint recipient with

Archive of American Broadcasting).

2016

• Internet Archive Hero Award. Global Leaders

in Sharing Knowledge.

2015

• Laureate. IDG’s Computerworld Honors

Program.

• Charles Robert Long Award of Extraordinary

Merit. Council on Botanical and Horticultural

Libraries.

2013

• Victorian Government Arts Leadership

Recognition Award (BHL Australia).

2012

• John Thackray Medal. The Society for the

History of Natural History.

2011

• Outstanding Collaboration Award. Association

for Library Collections & Technical Services

(ALCTS).

2010

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“Joining BHL represents a greater opportunity for CONABIO

to provide broader access to Mexico’s biodiversity knowledge

contained within published literature. We believe that only

with a well-informed society it is possible to develop and

strengthen a culture of appreciation and valuation of

Mexico’s natural capital.”

Dr. José SarukhánCONABIO National Coordinator

Mexico City, Mexico

In Closing …

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A Larger Context …

Supporting the Convention on Biodiversity

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A Larger Context …

Convention on Biodiversity (CBD Article 17, 1992)

“It shall also, where feasible, include repatriation of

information.”

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A Larger Context …

Darwin Declaration (1998)

“The essential requirements for accessing and utilising this

global information are: that existing information held in literature

and by current experts is made available electronically”

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A Larger Context …

The Biodiversity Commons

BHL strives to be part of that larger Biodiversity Commons and

provide a space for the literature of biodiversity to be widely

available

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The Commons succeeds when,

among other elements, there is

"the presence of a community;

small and stable populations

with a thick social network and

social norms".

Elinor Ostrom, "Sustainable development and the

tragedy of commons" (2009)

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BHL has created that community

among our natural history and

botanical libraries

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By engaging with the larger biodiversity

community, by being a cornerstone of

the “biodiversity conmons,” and major

stakeholder institutions, BHL is creating

a sustainable biodiversity commons for

the literature of taxonomy.

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Specimens, data, publications...

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The Sixth Extinction

The "normal" rate of extinction is one species every

four years.

Today, species are going extinct at a rate of FOUR per

HOUR.

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Terima kasih

Thank you

நனறி

谢谢