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Forging a Digital Roadmap: The Preservation, Curation and Stewardship
Nexus
Bianca Crowley
Collections CoordinatorSmithsonian Libraries
Forging a Digital Roadmap: The Preservation, Curation and Stewardship
Nexus
Bianca Crowley
Collections CoordinatorSmithsonian Libraries
OR…Recalculating Route: Making inroads
into new territories
http://biodiversitylibrary.org
>58,000 titles >108,000 volumes > 39 million pages
The BHL is…
• A consortium of 14 natural history, botanical libraries and research institutions
• An open access digital library for legacy biodiversity literature.
• An open data repository of taxonomic names and bibliographic information
• An increasingly global effort
BHL Digitization Overview
BHLBHLUser Feedback
User Feedback
Descriptive MetadataDescriptive Metadata
Images, OCR text,
XMLTaxonomic
Name Services
What does a Collections Coordinator do?
Challenges
• Article access• Preservation: Replication &
Synchronization• Integrating content scanned outside
standard workflow• Deduplication• OCR accuracy• Copyright issues• Funding & resources
(of course!)
Lessons Learned
• Collaboration is key• Content is King• If you make your data available, people will
use it• Value of experimentation and failure• Be flexible• “Just Do It”
Future Directions
• Article level access– Reconfiguring back-end BHL database– Harvesting metadata from Biostor.org (thanks Roderic D.M.
Page)
• New user interface coming soon!
BHLBHL
Biostor.orgBiostor.org
101100010110110101
101100010110110101
Rod Page
Rod PageBHL
Curation: a Patient Practice…
Curation: a Patient Practice…
Curation: a Patient Practice that Pays Off!
Curation: a Patient Practice that Pays Off!
Curation: your Users can Help
Curation: your Users can Help
Stewardship: Our Role in the Biodiversity Research
“Ecology”
NameIndexes
Nomen-clators
Species Checklists
Phylogenies
Collecting Events
Localities
Researchers
Field Notes
Content Aggregators
EOL
Datasets
Biodiversity Literature
Publications
Scientific Names
BHL
Specimens
Thank you!
Bianca [email protected]
Slides: slideshare.net/lipscombbBiodiversity Heritage Library
biodivlibrary
biodivlibrary
blog.biodiversitylibrary.org
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