The Biodiversity Heritage Library

Martin R. Kalfatovic Smithsonian Libraries

Smithsonian Libraries Board Orientation 6 March 02013 | Washington, DC

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The cultivation of natural science cannot be efficiently carried on without reference to an extensive library Charles Darwin, et al ‏(1847)

The Wherefore of BHL

Specimen collections

Databases

Publications

Observations

‘Gray’‏literature

Index cards

Field notebooks

Taxonomic Impediment

Technology Library Science

Biodiversity Heritage Library

15 Member‏institutions‏…Formed‏in2006‏

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

Secretariat and Technical Staff August 2011 Program Director

Program Manager

Collections Coordinator

Technical Director Programmer Data Analyst

40,381,261pages 111,715 items 58,495 titles

5 March 2013

Content Growth 2007-2013

Cornell ingest | Dec 2011 14,458 14,458

Items Added: Past 12 Months

Average: 1,204 / month

User Statistics: 2007 - 2012

Visitors: 3,628,088 Page Views: 17,604,395 New vs. Returning: 48.88% vs. 50.12%

2007

2012 112,584 visitors | March 2012

233 countries Users in 233 Countries

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Increase agreements with publishers of in copyright materials

(up from ~250)

In Kind Contributions: CY 2011

SIL Direct Staff Contributions 4.32 FTE $400,000 Other Costs $242,948 Funding Received (internal, grants, etc.) $537,607

Administration

Metadata

Collections support

Database/Systems

Conservation

Scanning Preparation

Direct Scanning

Quality control

BHL Member Participation Staff FTE

29.5 FTE from the 14 member institutions (does not include Secretariat or Technical staff)

Fire

wall

Images (JP2) PDF Coordinate-based OCR XML metadata

BHL Architecture: Window Seat Ed.

BHL DB

Internet Archive

Storage

Logic

APIs UI Data

Exports

Access

Data Transform Utilities

Geocoding

Name Finding

The Biodiversity Heritage Library: 2006

Experiment with taxonomic markup

Smithsonian Contributions and Studies Series Collaboration with Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press

1,000+ titles; 100,000 pages

3.8 million total views | 63,000 images (13 Feb 13)

233 countries Users in 233 Countries

June 2012 Over 30 librarians, scientists, informaticians gathered in Cape Town, South Africa to start the formation of the BHL Africa node; funded by JRS Foundation

Trish Rose-Sandler, Missouri Botanical Garden DLF Forum 2012 Denver CO Art of Life project

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

Outreach

“Thank you much for your help. It is so useful as I am right now working on the fishes of Ganges. Moreover it is so great that the library provides classic literature on fishes and it was a dream to me [when] I started my taxonomy ten years back. It is marvellous [what] you did for us which are badly in need of old literature. Thanks a lot.”“Thank you much for your help. It is so useful as I am right now working on the fishes of Ganges. Moreover it is so great that the library provides classic literature on fishes and it was a dream to me [when] I started my taxonomy ten years back. It is marvellous [what] you did for us which are badly in need of old literature. Thanks a lot.”

What an absolutely wonderful site. It is a treasure trove of information. Thank you!

May I compliment you on this splendid service? The Library's invaluable for my work on seasonal

variability of climate and vector-borne disease in British India, 1875-1940.

I really appreciate your work. The Biodiversity Heritage Library is an excellent resource that regularly helps my assistant and I obtain original descriptions for plants .... I feel so privileged to be working in a day in age when such resources are so readily available and easy to obtain.

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

Thanks‏…‏Questions‏and‏Discussion