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BHL-Europe
Biodiversity Heritage Library for Europe – ECP-2008-DILI-518001 – Kick-off meeting – Berlin – 10-15 May 2009 www.biodiversitylibrary.org
National Botanic Garden ofBelgium (NBGB)
1826 : foundation of the scientific institution in Brussels1870: State Botanic Garden
1973: move to Meise
BHL-Europe
Biodiversity Heritage Library for Europe – ECP-2008-DILI-518001 – Kick-off meeting – Berlin – 10-15 May 2009 www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Largest and most multidisciplinary botanic garden of Belgium
herbarium : 3 millions specimens
library : more than 250 thousand volumes
living plants : 18 thousand taxa in cultivation
indoor and outdoor
BHL-Europe
Biodiversity Heritage Library for Europe – ECP-2008-DILI-518001 – Kick-off meeting – Berlin – 10-15 May 2009 www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Digitisation projects of the NBGB
Funded by the NBGB
Archives and library
Conservation and the environment (120 participating herbaria from 40 countries)
API = African Plants InitiativeLAPI = Latin American Plants Initiative
Funded by VBTA & Belgian Science Policy
BHL-Europe
Biodiversity Heritage Library for Europe – ECP-2008-DILI-518001 – Kick-off meeting – Berlin – 10-15 May 2009 www.biodiversitylibrary.org
API (Africa)
herbarium types (vascular plants) 41 000BW drawings (vascular plants) 1 500watercolours (microfungi) 1 300slides (microfungi) 2 000
LAPI (Latin America)
herbarium types (vascular plants) 7 600
Projects funded by The Mellon Foundation since 2003
BHL-Europe
Biodiversity Heritage Library for Europe – ECP-2008-DILI-518001 – Kick-off meeting – Berlin – 10-15 May 2009 www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Project funded by VBTA & Belgian Science Policy
9 Partners
* Antwerp Botanic Garden * Hof ter Saksen Arboretum (Beveren) * Bokrijk Arboretum * Ghent University Botanic Garden * Kalmthout Arboretum * Leuven Botanic Garden * National Botanic Garden of Belgium * Robert Lenoir Arboretum (Rendeux) * Wespelaar Arboretum
Belgium's living plant collections: www.plantcol.be
BHL-Europe
Biodiversity Heritage Library for Europe – ECP-2008-DILI-518001 – Kick-off meeting – Berlin – 10-15 May 2009 www.biodiversitylibrary.org
1996 Vegetation of Tropical and Subtropical Africa and America 100 pictures
2000 AETFAT Bulletin, vol. 1(1951) – 46(2000) 3 500 pages
2002 Nannenga-Bremekamp's original drawings and notes on Myxomycetes more than 5 000 items
2003 Pictures of the living collections more than 20 000 items (in progress)
2004 Slides of the indoor collections 5 000 slides
2004 Congo National Park Ruwengeri 38 maps (A0 format)
2006 Cryptogamic literature 2 000 reprints = 50 000 pages
2007 Bulletin du Jardin Botanique 33 500 pages
2007 Systematics and Geography of Plants 3 500 pages
2007 Correspondence archives 300 items
2009 Flore du Congo belge 4 289 pages (in progress)
Projects funded by NBGB
BHL-Europe
Biodiversity Heritage Library for Europe – ECP-2008-DILI-518001 – Kick-off meeting – Berlin – 10-15 May 2009 www.biodiversitylibrary.org
API – LAPI BG-Base NBGB virtual herbarium / ALUKA
PLANTCOL Progress www.plantcol.be
Vegetation of Tropical and Subtropical / CD-ROM Africa and America
AETFAT Bulletin ,vol. 1(1951) – 46(2000) VubisSmart CD-ROM
Nannenga-Bremekamp'soriginal drawings and notes on Myxomycetes BG-Base CD-ROM
Pictures of the living collections / /
Slides of the indoor collections Progress /
Congo National Park Ruwengeri / DVD-ROM
Cryptogamic literature EndNote Intranet
Bulletin du Jardin Botanique VubisSmart JSTOR
Systematics and Geography of Plants VubisSmart JSTOR (back issues) / INGENTA (recent issues)
Correspondence archives VubisSmart NBGB online catalogue (in progress)
Flore du Congo belge VubisSmart NBGB online catalogue (in progress)
Metadata Dissemination
BHL-Europe
Biodiversity Heritage Library for Europe – ECP-2008-DILI-518001 – Kick-off meeting – Berlin – 10-15 May 2009 www.biodiversitylibrary.org
NBGB Library
• one of the most important in Europe concerning descriptive botany• founded early 19th century
Mission
• to collect, catalogue and conserve complementary documentation to the herbaria and the living plant collections
• to serve staff as well as users from all over the world
BHL-Europe
Biodiversity Heritage Library for Europe – ECP-2008-DILI-518001 – Kick-off meeting – Berlin – 10-15 May 2009 www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Collections
50 thousand books (2 500 valuable books)50 thousand separates7 thousand serials (1 100 current)archives : more than 300 run meters
BHL-Europe
Biodiversity Heritage Library for Europe – ECP-2008-DILI-518001 – Kick-off meeting – Berlin – 10-15 May 2009 www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Topics
systematic botanyfloristicsplant ecologyhistory of botanyethnobotanyhorticulture
BHL-Europe
Biodiversity Heritage Library for Europe – ECP-2008-DILI-518001 – Kick-off meeting – Berlin – 10-15 May 2009 www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Geographic fields
focussed on Central Africa and Europe (esp. Belgium)publications (e.g. modern floras) from all over the world
BHL-Europe
Biodiversity Heritage Library for Europe – ECP-2008-DILI-518001 – Kick-off meeting – Berlin – 10-15 May 2009 www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Systematic groups
non-vascular plants including Fungivascular plants
BHL-Europe
Biodiversity Heritage Library for Europe – ECP-2008-DILI-518001 – Kick-off meeting – Berlin – 10-15 May 2009 www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Computerized library catalogue VUBIS
start 1994online since 2007 : http://library.br.fgov.be
95 % of the collection (except reprints)118 000 bibliographic records
bibliographic records in Smart format (VubisSmart)export facilities to UNIMARC, MARC21 XML, Z39.50
BHL-Europe
Biodiversity Heritage Library for Europe – ECP-2008-DILI-518001 – Kick-off meeting – Berlin – 10-15 May 2009 www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Records exported to 2 common catalogues
• ANTILOPE: Union catalogue of serials in Belgian & Dutch academic and special libraries 200 libraries (170 000 titles)
http://anet.ua.ac.be/submit.phtml
• Common Catalogue of the Belgian Federal Libraries: Public services & scientific institutions
24 libraries (4 millions records)
http://www.bib.belgium.be/
BHL-Europe
Biodiversity Heritage Library for Europe – ECP-2008-DILI-518001 – Kick-off meeting – Berlin – 10-15 May 2009 www.biodiversitylibrary.org
New library digitisation project
Books (out of copyright)Works on Belgian botanyWorks on Central African botanyAlgological works of the Van Heurck collection
Original botanical drawings & watercolours
At present, discussion about technical issues (file format, technical & structural metadata)Start of the project in JulyOperational by the end of September
BHL-Europe
Biodiversity Heritage Library for Europe – ECP-2008-DILI-518001 – Kick-off meeting – Berlin – 10-15 May 2009 www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Scanning equipment
• I2S copibook (as in Real Jardin botanico de Madrid and in the State Archives in Belgium)
=> small size books (max A3)
• digital view camera Betterlight super 10K-HS (as in Ghent University and in the Photography Museum Rotterdam)
=> large size books, maps, drawings
BHL-Europe
Biodiversity Heritage Library for Europe – ECP-2008-DILI-518001 – Kick-off meeting – Berlin – 10-15 May 2009 www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Provisional workplan
material selection (collaboration between library and own researchers)
check if already digitized (BHL, , Madrid)
check
check / capture metadata in
file name and structure of metadata
scan
data processing to deliverables (under consideration)
store masters and deliverables
link to webfile
transfert to