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An Anatomy of a Mass Scanning Project: The Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin R. Kalfatovic. The Medical Heritage Library Meeting. Rochester, MN. 28 April 2010
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An Anatomy of a Mass Scanning Project
Medical Heritage Library Meeting28 April 2010
Martin R. KalfatovicSmithsonian Institution Libraries
The Biodiversity Heritage Library
• About BHL• Funding• Usage Statistics• Growth of Content• Outreach & Feedback• New Developments
American Museum of Natural History
Field MuseumCalifornia Academy of
SciencesMuseum of Comparative
Zoology (Harvard)New York Botanical GardenNatural History Museum
(London)
The Biodiversity Heritage Library
Smithsonian Institution LibrariesRoyal Botanic Gardens, KewMissouri Botanical GardenAcademy of Natural Sciences
(Philadelphia)Marine Biological
Laboratory/WHOIHarvard Botany Libraries
The Biodiversity Heritage Library
BHL Global
BHL Global
Funding
ParentOrganizations
Moore Foundation
MacArthurFoundation
IMLS
Funding
2009
Direct Staff Costs $1,143,326.09
Other Costs $216,194.12
Total $1,359,520.21
Internal Subvention $150,140.00
External Grants received $775,000.00
Funds Received $925,140.00
FTE 17.69
Funding
2009
SI Libraries
Direct Staff Costs $376,385.14
Other Costs $52,000.00
Total $428,385.14
Internal Subvention $150,000.00
External Grants received $-
Funds Received $150,000.00
FTE 3.75
Funding
Some Usage Stats
A Global User Community
Steadily Increasing Usage
The Machine is Using Us
Direct Traffic: 16.55%Referring Sites: 22.20%
EOL Wikipedia: Tropicos Smithsonian BioOne Animal Base
Search Engines: 61.15%
Growth of Content
BHL Titles: 41,387 Items: 78,872 Pages: 29.5 million
SIL Titles: 4,535 Items: 9,563 Pages: 3.48 million
Growth of Content
Growth of BHL ContentSIL 03/2009 – 03/2010
Outreach & Feedback
• Survey of users now being conducted
• New public “help” wiki launched earlier this year
• Instructional videos for portal use being created
Outreach & Feedback
“BHL deserves so much credit for all that it has done to benefit the scholarly endeavor in such a short amount of time.”
Outreach & Feedback
“In turn I would like to compliment the whole BHL team [for] this service, indispensable for taxonomists (and wider biological community).”
Outreach & Feedback
Outreach & Feedback
2010 ALA Collaboration Award
“Our committee was quite impressed with BHL's noteworthy collaborative effort to fulfill a scholarly need by providing open access to a large corpus of historical materials on biodiversity within the biological, ecological and environmental sciences.”
“Outstanding! And it is also a great illustration of the power of collaboration to get things done we could not do alone. My congratulations to you and all your BHL colleagues.”- Sec. Wayne Clough
Outreach & Feedback
New Developments
CiteBank for article-level delivery in development Open API and web services allow user to create applications on top of BHL
New Developments
Team BHL
Team BHLA Social Experiment
• Distributed scanning• Distributed portal editing• Distributed user services
An Anatomy of a Mass Scanning Project
Medical Heritage Library Meeting28 April 2010
Martin R. KalfatovicSmithsonian Institution Libraries
THANKYOU
