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BHLBHL-USBHL-US/UKBHL-ClassicBHL-OriginalBHL-AngloAmerican Project
Chris FreelandTechnical Director, Global BHL
Motivation
1. Take Books from Library Shelves2. Scan Books3. Make Users Happy
• This is not about us, it’s about scientists in developing countries– We have an embarrassment of riches in our
own libraries– We are uniquely poised to produce a global BHL
BHL-US is virtual
Internet Archive:Digitized content / files
MOBOT:Database & web application
MBL:Redundant cluster
Metadata
Content
Tech Work
• More than 83,000 volumes online• More than 2,000 visitors every day
• 1 Technical Director, who isn’t• 1 Full Time Programmer on BHL• 1 Full Time Systems Developer• 1 Full Time Data Analyst• 1 Full Time consultant thru 12/2010
Tech Work Planned
• Enhancements based on user survey– Listen to users– Respond to users
• CiteBank– Community needs, we can provide
• New funding, new opportunities– Darwin’s Library annotations
Human resources available
• Attitude to contractors– We LOVE them, when we hire them
• Students– We LOVE them, when we can get them
• Library staff– We LOVE them.
Funding
• Multiple Streams• MacArthur & Sloan Foundations
– Funding for scanning, starting BHL
• Moore Foundation– Fedora integration– Globalization activities
• IMLS– Special Collections
• Trio Foundation, others
Drivers/criteria for success
• Volumes online• Patrons served• Number of EOL pages with BHL
content• Number of referrers to BHL• Positive feedback• *Not revenue*…hmmm…
Integration with other projects
• Encyclopedia of Life (EOL)• Tropicos• International Plant Names Index
(IPNI)• Internet Archive• BioStor.org• BiblioOdyssey
Dates of major milestones/deliverables
• Dec 31, 2010– Have to have completed:
• Fedora Integration• Citebank production release
– Hard deadline for funding
• June 30, 2012– Completion of core funding
Regional Requirements
• We have always looked at our work as serving a global audience
• Realized we can’t do it alone• Have to make funding organizations
happy• Have to make users happy