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The Biodiversity Heritage Library2007 – 2009: A Status Update
Martin R. Kalfatovic
Suzanne C. Pilsk
Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Bianca M. Lipscomb
Biodiversity Heritage Library
The Field Museum :: Chicago, Illinois :: 10 July 2009
• 2003. Telluride. Encyclopedia of Life meeting
• February 2005. London. Library and Laboratory: the Marriage of Research, Data and Taxonomic Literature
• May 2005. Washington. Ground work for the Biodiversity Heritage Library
• June 2006. Washington. Organizational and Technical meeting
• August 2006. New York Botanical Garden. BHL Director’s Meeting.
• October 2006. St. Louis/San Francisco. Technical meetings
• February 2007. Museum of Comparative Zoology. Organizational meeting
• May 2007. Encyclopedia of Life and BHL Portal Launch. Washington DC.
American Museum of Natural History (New York)
Academy of Natural Science, 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
BHL – EuropeLaunched in May 2009
• 28 Institutions• 14 countries• 3.4 million funding for three years Discussions underway with the Chinese Academy of Science and the Atlas of Living Australia for BHL components
Initial grant from the MacArthur and Sloan Foundations (as part of the Encyclopedia of Life grant)
Additional support from parent institutions
Supplemental grants in place for specific development (e.g. Moore Foundation for Fedora)
Additional grants being actively pursued by BHL and individual members
TheEncyclopedia of Life
Serine Molecule
H
InformaticsMarine Biological Laboratory
Missouri Botanical Garden
Species Pages & SecretariatSmithsonian
Education and OutreachSmithsonian & Harvard
Synthesis CenterField Museum
Built from a variety of new and existing sources
Views available for varying levels of expertise from novice to expert
Legacy literature a key component of the EOL species pages
Encyclopedia of Life Species Pages
Encyclopedia of Life
BHL 2.0
How to make THIS into 0’s and 1’s
Statistics:1.3 million catalogue records 73% are monographs (remainder are serials at title-level) 63% is English language materialThe next most popular language (9%) is GermanAbout 30% of material was published before 1923
Marine Biological Laboratory/WHOI
• Marine monographs
• General Science
Museum of Comparative Zoology
• MCZ publications
• Herpetology monographs and serials
• Ichthyology monographs and serials
Rough Selection
University of Illinois
– Fieldiana
– Natural history of Illinois
American Museum of Natural History
– AMNH publications
– Ornithology
Natural History Museum
– NHM publications
– Major natural history general serials
Rough Selection
Botany Collections
Missouri Botanical Garden,
New York Botanical Garden,
Harvard Botany Libraries, and
Royal Botanic Garden, Kew
– will cooperatively develop a methodology for botanical publications and botanical collections from other BHL members will fill in gaps
Rough Selection
Smithsonian Institution Libraries
– Smithsonian publications
– Entomology collection
– Marine mammals
– Fishes
– Selected special collections materials
Rough Selection
Collections Coordinator on board in February 2009.
Bianca Lipscomb, based at the Smithsonian, will coordinate material selection across the BHL and contributing partners
Rough Selection
Ernest Ingersoll Hand-book to the National Museum … Smithsonian Institution, 1886
Mass Scanning Workflow
Serial managementBid Lists
Monograph ManagementDedupper
Pick Lists
Packing Lists
Mass Scanning Workflow
Local data flow
Vendor data flowWonderFetch tm
Return of data
Return of material
Billing
Flow of the Process
Select Book ~Pull from Shelf
Review Physically and Metadata
Establish viability and create Wonderfetch tm
Send to IA scanning center
Smithsonian shipment to FedScan
Flow of the Process
Book is scanned & QA
Page images loaded to IA
Derivatives created
Book returned
QA on returned book against images
Book returned to library
Flow of the Process
Metadata files harvested from IA portal to BHL
Taxonomic Intelligence Added
Available through BHL
BHL Scanning
Internet Archive• 501(c)(3) organization• Dedicated to “Universal
Access to Human Knowledge”
• Founder of the Open Content Alliance
• Provides:• Mass scanning• Archival storage of files• Image processing• Technology
development
Single Scribe Machine
Custom built by the Internet Archive
Human operated
3,500 page per shift per day
Northeast Regional Scanning Center
• 10 Scribe machines
• MBL/WHOI
• Harvard
Jersey City Facility
• 10 Scribe machines
• AMNH
• NYBG
University of Illinois
• 2 Scribe machines
Natural History Museum, London
• 1 Scribe machine
Missouri Botanical Garden
• Non-Scribe operation
Washington, DC
• 1 Scribe machine at Smithsonian Libraries (Natural History Museum)
• 10 FedScan Facility (Library of Congress)
http://www.bhl.si.edu/wonderfetch.cfm?date1=4/23/2009&date2=4/23/2009
http://www.bhl.si.edu/wonderfetch.cfm?date1=7/2/2009&date2=7/2/2009
http://www.bhl.si.edu/wonderfetch.cfm?date1=5/14/2009&date2=5/14/2009
Staffing: Administration Metadata Collections support Database/Systems Conservator Technicians for pulling Technicians for Quality
Review
Other things: Travel Equipment Transportation
Staffing – Estimates to Reality
Items “Cardboard to
Cardboard” A barcoded “book” Estimated just over
6,000 in a year Cost: $70.26
Pages Approximated just
over 300 pages in an “item”
Estimated just under 1,900,000 in a year
Cost per page: 0.23
Smithsonian Costs – Estimates to Reality
What about other scanning?
• Missouri Botanical Garden Library continuing in-house scanning process
• Other BHL members also have non-Internet Archive scanning operations
• Ingest of other interested libraries
The BHL Portal!
The BHL Portal is not an OPAC!
Metadata – failure to serve
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Metadata: Real MARC – Still failure to serve
- Specimen- Plate or other visual image- Taxonomic description
Plant Names
Specimens
Plant Names
Plant NamesSpecimensDescriptions
Plant Names
Plant Names
Citations
BHL Portal Demo
Example Seaches :
IA; BHL :
Insecta; publication mensuelle•http://www.archive.org
•http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org
•http://www.google.com/
IA; BHL; Google :
As nature shows them
http://www.eol.org/
“Article-izing” content
User-generated metadata
Example
http://biodiversitylibrary.org/pdfgen/15371I
User-Generated PDFs
http://cite.biodiversitylibrary.org/
Permissions agreements with publishers of natural science content
• Rhodora
• American Ornithologist’s Check-list of North American Birds | AOU Check-list in BHL
Requests User-solicited identification of literature corpus
Developing the Collection
Thanks for sticking around!
BHL Portalhttp://www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Citehttp://cite.biodiversitylibrary.org
Internet Archivehttp://www.archive.org
Ubiohttp://www.ubio.org
Links
Credits
Thanks to all the BHL partner staff who have worked on presentations over the years!
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