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Biodiversity Heritage LibraryCreating a digital library for access and researchJoe Coleman
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Biodiversity Heritage Library: Creating a digital library for access and research
Joe ColemanBHL Digitisation manager
“The cultivation of natural science cannot be efficiently carried on without reference to an extensive library”.
C.R. Darwin
Turning this…
Digitisation
… into this.
• Digitisation for BHL about access
Partners
Access
• Users can develop own tools to access data
• Can be search OCR text for species name
• Full text search (coming soon)
• Web portal just one way into the BHL data
• Cite Bank & Biostor two examples
• BHL data available using open standards and linked to semantic web
An elementary manual of New Zealand entomologyLondon,West, Newman & Co.,1892.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/34950
Copyright
• Majority of works in Public Domain• Public Domain considered to be
> 90 years from publication• What’s in the public domain
stays in the public domain.
• Permission sought by contributors for in copyright material.
• Use of in copyright content licensedL'histoire naturelle des estranges poissons marins
A Paris :De l'imprimerie de Regnaud Chaudiere,1551.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4748789
Audience
• Scientific Community • Need authoritative reference texts• Need to find data
• General interest• Want to see what’s interesting
and attractive• Need to know what to look for
• Web developers• Need a challenge!• Need open data standards.
A monograph of the Trochilidæ, or family of humming-birds /.London :Printed by Taylor and Francis ;1861 [i.e. 1849-1861].biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34843253
Digitisation Workflow
• Images• Captured as RAW• Converted to 8 bit uncompressed TIFF• Processed TIFFs saved as
archival copy• Compressed JPEG 2000
uploaded to IA
• Metadata• Bibliographic record as MODS• Page metadata exported from
Macaw as XML
Ornithological miscellany V.1London :Trübner and Co., Bernard Quaritch, R.H. Porter,1876-1878.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/108982
Digitisaton workflow
Macaw
• Developed by Smithsonian Libraries ….• Simple metadata creation for book
and page items • Upload directly to
Internet Archive
• … Hacked by MV
• Simplified workflow• New styling• Multiple contributor upload
Geographical distribution of publications