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An Overview of the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin R. Kalfatovic. University of Pretoria Visitor Presentation. Smithsonian Libraries. 20 September 2013.
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Specimen collections
Databases
Publications
Observations
‘Gray’ literature
Index cards
Field notebooks
Taxonomic Impediment
Technology Library Science
Biodiversity Heritage Library
BHL “classic” or US/UK: 15 institutions …Formed in 2006, 13 members and 2 affiliates
15 Members
•Academy of Natural Sciences Library and Archives •American Museum of Natural History Library •California Academy of Sciences Library •Cornell University Library •The Field Museum Library •Harvard University Botany Libraries •Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology •Library of Congress •Marine Biological Laboratory and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Library •Missouri Botanical Garden Library •Natural History Museum, London, Library & Archives •The New York Botanical Garden •Royal Botanic Garden, Kew, Library & Archives •Smithsonian Institution Libraries •United States Geological Survey Libraries
BHL “classic” or US/UK: Key Organizational Points
• BHL is not a legal entity; fiduciary and legal agreements are generally delegated to individual members
• Membership is governed my a Memorandum of Understanding signed by all members
• Two levels of membership (as of 2013):
• Member (voting and administrative input); annual dues of $10,000 USD
• Affiliate (provide content or other services to BHL; no voting or input into overall BHL direction)
• BHL Secretariat (Administrative component), housed at the Smithsonian Libraries
• BHL Technical Team (housed at Missouri Botanical Garden)
• BHL Executive Committee (elected by Members): Chair, Vice-Chair and Secretary
BHL Institutional Council | Woods Hole | May 2013
Secretariat and Technical Staff August 2011 Program Director
Program Manager
Collections Coordinator
Technical Director Programmer Data Analyst
What is Biodiversity Content?
Collection Management Cycle
Deduplication
Digitization
Users
Curation
Selection
Selection
High-yield taxonomic materials
Unique & rare materials
Permissions titles
User requested titles & gap-fills
Discipline specific subject matter
Non-BHL member materials ingested from the Internet Archive
ACTIVE /HIGH
PRIORITY
PASSIVE /LOW PRIORITY
Increase agreements with publishers of in copyright materials
US Titles: 206 UK Titles: 67 TOTAL TITLES: 273 US Licensors: 85 UK Licensors: 40 TOTAL LICENSORS: 125
Digitization Workflow
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Internet Archive Scanning
Northeast Regional Scanning Facility (Boston)
New Jersey Facility
Natural History Museum, London
Fedscan (Library of Congress)
Internet Archive (San Francisco)
Smithsonian Libraries
Missouri Botanical Garden (Non-Scribe operation)
Scanning Operations: Macaw
41,510,620 pages
118,151 items
62,754 titles 19 September 2013
Content Growth
2007-2013
… and now including segments
92,356 “segments”
New Content Types
Field Books and other archival materials Stand along or linked illustrations
Secretariat
Technical
Member operations
BHL Expenditures
233 countries Users in 233 Countries
User Statistics: 2007 - 2013
Visitors: 3,628,088 Page Views: 17,604,395 New vs. Returning: 50.06% vs. 49.04%
2007
2013 146,798 visitors | November 2012
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I am thrilled with what I have been able to find re: archaic mammary embryology some of which I had been hoping to find at the National Library of Medicine, and to get it through your program was a huge advantage. Last night I believe I requested and received 11 PDFs, all of which are essential to a review paper* I am completing. Olav T. Oftedal PhD Smithsonian Environmental Research Center * “Evo-Devo of the Mammary Gland” by Oftedal, et al. Journal of Mammary Gland Biology and Neoplasia (May 2013)
Facebook Total Page Likes: 4,384
Twitter @ BioDivLibrary Total Followers: 2,369
Pinterest 2,373 images & 16 collections
Blog Total Visits: 9,096 (2Q13)
BHL Social Media February 2013
3.8 million total views | 63,000 images (13 Feb 13)
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BHL Architecture: Window Seat Ed.
BHL DB
Internet Archive
Storage
Logic
APIs UI Data
Exports
Access
Data Transform Utilities
Geocoding
Name Finding
Trish Rose-Sandler, Missouri Botanical Garden DLF Forum 2012 Denver CO Art of Life project
Scanning Locally, Collaborating Globally
6 global nodes: By country, region, language Each node is independent and self-organized, but work under a
set of common principles Share content as much as possible Node leaders form a Global Coordinating Committee Goal is to share a common portal where possible Goal is to develop multi-lingual portal
Trish Rose-Sandler, Missouri Botanical Garden DLF Forum 2012 Denver CO Art of Life project
BHL Africa Launch | Pretoria | April 2013
Global BHL Steering Committee August 2011 Vice Chair
Secretary
Chair
Looking Forward
In any well-appointed Natural History Library there should be found every book and every edition of every book dealing in the remotest way with the subjects concerned.
Charles Davies Sherborn Epilogue to Index Animalium, March 1922
Thank you! Enkosi! Danki! Ngiyabonga! Ke a leboha! Ndzi khense ngofu Ndi a livhuwa