Overview & Introduction to The Biodiversity Heritage Library

Martin R. Kalfatovic | BHL Program Director | Smithsonian LibrariesNAS/PLS/NL/NParks/NUS | Singapore | February 2014

Welcome!

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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

Members … Washington University is #14

14 Members

• American Museum of Natural History • California Academy of Sciences Library• Cornell University 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 • The New York Botanical Garden• Royal Botanic Garden, Kew• Smithsonian Institution Libraries• United States Geological Survey Libraries• Washington University of St. Louis

Affiliates

Affiliates

Academy of Natural Sciences Philadelphia at Drexel University

The Field Museum Library

Newest Affiliate:

Secretariat and Technical StaffAugust 2011Program Director

Program ManagerCollections Coordinator

Technical DirectorProgrammerData Analyst

BHL Institutional Council | Woods Hole | May 2013

Global BHL Steering CommitteeAugust 2011 Vice Chair SecretaryChair

Biodiversity Heritage LibraryGlobal Goverance

Technology Library Science

Biodiversity Heritage Library

Problems of Mass Digitization of Library Materials

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Images (JP2)PDFCoordinate-based OCRXML metadata

BHL Architecture: Window Seat Ed.

BHL DBBHL DB

Internet ArchiveInternet Archive

Storage

Logic

APIsAPIs UIUI DataExportsData

Exports

Access

Data TransformUtilities

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GeocodingGeocoding

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Scanning Operations: Macaw

42,498,407 pages130,484 volumes71,945 titles

4 February 2014

Content Growth2007-2014

Increase agreementswith publishers of in copyright materials

US Titles: 249UK Titles: 69TOTAL TITLES: 318

US Licensors: 92UK Licensors: 41

TOTAL LICENSORS: 133

October 2013

Mass digitization of Smithsonian Libraries collections aligns with the overall Smithsonian digitization strategy and remains a

center of excellence for rapid digitization at the SI

Problems of Library Metadata

User Statistics: 2007 - 2013Visitors: 3,628,088Page Views: 17,604,395New vs. Returning: 50.06% vs. 49.04%

2007

2013146,798 visitors | November 2012

233 countriesUsers in 233 Countries

Singapore ranks 33rd in visitorship by CITIES, about the same as San Francisco

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FIELD NOTES AND TRANSCRIPTION

Field Notes and Transcriptions

24+ million total views | 87K + images (Feb 14)

FacebookTotal Page Likes: 6,587

Twitter @ BioDivLibraryTotal Followers: 3,095

Pinterest3,764 images & 17 collections

BlogTotal Visits:36,208 (FY13)

BHL Social MediaOctober 2013

BHL Europe. Final Events, Berlin, 4-6 June 2012

Smithsonian Libraries and BHL, Mae Jemison Science Reading Room. Pretoria,

South Africa. 11 June 2012 [presentation]

BHL African Meeting, Cape Town, South Africa, June 14-15 2012

BHL Staff and Technical Meeting, Cambridge, MA, 27-28, 2012

Internet Archive Leaders' Forum, San Francisco, CA, 24-25 October 2012 EOL Work Group Leaders Meeting. Cambridge, MA, 29-30 November 2012

JSTOR Plants Meeting, Panama City, Panama, 6-11 January 2013

Third Phenotype Ontology Research Coordination Network Annual Summit

meeting, Durham, NC, 25-27 February 2013

Fulbright Academy Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, 15 February 2013

I Annotate: Annoto Ergo Sum, San Francisco, CA, 10-12 April 2013

BHL Africa Launch, Pretoria, South Africa, 15-18 April 2013

BHL Symposium. TDWG 2013. Florence, Italy. 29 October 2013.

Digitalización de literatura de Biodiversidad: an Overview of the Biodiversity Heritage Library. CONABIO Teleconference. 29 August 2013.

International Relations Round Table, American Library Association Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL, 28 June 2013.

3rd International Conference on African Digital Libraries and Archives. Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco. 30 May 2013.

4th Global BHL Meeting. Fes, Morocco. 27 May 2013.

Awards 2013 ComputerWorld Award

2013 Council of Botanical and Horticulture Libraries

2011 Thackray Medal by the Society for the History of Natural History

2010 ALCTS award for outstanding collaboration

“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.

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

BHL Africa Launch | Pretoria | April 2013

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

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!

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谢谢您 !

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