2009.07.10 bhl talk at field museum

The Biodiversity Heritage Library2007 – 2009: A Status Update

Martin R. Kalfatovic

Suzanne C. Pilsk

Smithsonian Institution Libraries

Bianca M. Lipscomb

Biodiversity Heritage Library

The Field Museum :: Chicago, Illinois :: 10 July 2009

• 2003. Telluride. Encyclopedia of Life meeting

• February 2005. London. Library and Laboratory: the Marriage of Research, Data and Taxonomic Literature

• May 2005. Washington. Ground work for the Biodiversity Heritage Library

• June 2006. Washington. Organizational and Technical meeting

• August 2006. New York Botanical Garden. BHL Director’s Meeting.

• October 2006. St. Louis/San Francisco. Technical meetings

• February 2007. Museum of Comparative Zoology. Organizational meeting

• May 2007. Encyclopedia of Life and BHL Portal Launch. Washington DC.

American Museum of Natural History (New York)

Academy of Natural Science, Philadelphia

California Academy of Sciences (San Francisco)

Field Museum (Chicago)

Natural History Museum (London)

Smithsonian Institution Libraries (Washington)

Missouri Botanical Garden (St. Louis)

New York Botanical Garden (New York)

Royal Botanic Garden, Kew

Botany Libraries, Harvard University

Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University

Marine Biological Laboratory / Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

BHL – EuropeLaunched in May 2009

• 28 Institutions• 14 countries• 3.4 million funding for three years Discussions underway with the Chinese Academy of Science and the Atlas of Living Australia for BHL components

Initial grant from the MacArthur and Sloan Foundations (as part of the Encyclopedia of Life grant)

Additional support from parent institutions

Supplemental grants in place for specific development (e.g. Moore Foundation for Fedora)

Additional grants being actively pursued by BHL and individual members

TheEncyclopedia of Life

Serine Molecule

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InformaticsMarine Biological Laboratory

Missouri Botanical Garden

Species Pages & SecretariatSmithsonian

Education and OutreachSmithsonian & Harvard

Synthesis CenterField Museum

Built from a variety of new and existing sources

Views available for varying levels of expertise from novice to expert

Legacy literature a key component of the EOL species pages

Encyclopedia of Life Species Pages

Encyclopedia of Life

BHL 2.0

How to make THIS into 0’s and 1’s

Statistics:1.3 million catalogue records 73% are monographs (remainder are serials at title-level) 63% is English language materialThe next most popular language (9%) is GermanAbout 30% of material was published before 1923

Marine Biological Laboratory/WHOI

• Marine monographs

• General Science

Museum of Comparative Zoology

• MCZ publications

• Herpetology monographs and serials

• Ichthyology monographs and serials

Rough Selection

University of Illinois

– Fieldiana

– Natural history of Illinois

American Museum of Natural History

– AMNH publications

– Ornithology

Natural History Museum

– NHM publications

– Major natural history general serials

Rough Selection

Botany Collections

Missouri Botanical Garden,

New York Botanical Garden,

Harvard Botany Libraries, and

Royal Botanic Garden, Kew

– will cooperatively develop a methodology for botanical publications and botanical collections from other BHL members will fill in gaps

Rough Selection

Smithsonian Institution Libraries

– Smithsonian publications

– Entomology collection

– Marine mammals

– Fishes

– Selected special collections materials

Rough Selection

Collections Coordinator on board in February 2009.

Bianca Lipscomb, based at the Smithsonian, will coordinate material selection across the BHL and contributing partners

Rough Selection

Ernest Ingersoll Hand-book to the National Museum … Smithsonian Institution, 1886

Mass Scanning Workflow

Serial managementBid Lists

Monograph ManagementDedupper

Pick Lists

Packing Lists

Mass Scanning Workflow

Local data flow

Vendor data flowWonderFetch tm

Return of data

Return of material

Billing

Flow of the Process

Select Book ~Pull from Shelf

Review Physically and Metadata

Establish viability and create Wonderfetch tm

Send to IA scanning center

Smithsonian shipment to FedScan

Flow of the Process

Book is scanned & QA

Page images loaded to IA

Derivatives created

Book returned

QA on returned book against images

Book returned to library

Flow of the Process

Metadata files harvested from IA portal to BHL

Taxonomic Intelligence Added

Available through BHL

BHL Scanning

Internet Archive• 501(c)(3) organization• Dedicated to “Universal

Access to Human Knowledge”

• Founder of the Open Content Alliance

• Provides:• Mass scanning• Archival storage of files• Image processing• Technology

development

Single Scribe Machine

Custom built by the Internet Archive

Human operated

3,500 page per shift per day

Northeast Regional Scanning Center

• 10 Scribe machines

• MBL/WHOI

• Harvard

Jersey City Facility

• 10 Scribe machines

• AMNH

• NYBG

University of Illinois

• 2 Scribe machines

Natural History Museum, London

• 1 Scribe machine

Missouri Botanical Garden

• Non-Scribe operation

Washington, DC

• 1 Scribe machine at Smithsonian Libraries (Natural History Museum)

• 10 FedScan Facility (Library of Congress)

http://www.bhl.si.edu/wonderfetch.cfm?date1=4/23/2009&date2=4/23/2009

http://www.bhl.si.edu/wonderfetch.cfm?date1=7/2/2009&date2=7/2/2009

http://www.bhl.si.edu/wonderfetch.cfm?date1=5/14/2009&date2=5/14/2009

Staffing: Administration Metadata Collections support Database/Systems Conservator Technicians for pulling Technicians for Quality

Review

Other things: Travel Equipment Transportation

Staffing – Estimates to Reality

Items “Cardboard to

Cardboard” A barcoded “book” Estimated just over

6,000 in a year Cost: $70.26

Pages Approximated just

over 300 pages in an “item”

Estimated just under 1,900,000 in a year

Cost per page: 0.23

Smithsonian Costs – Estimates to Reality

What about other scanning?

• Missouri Botanical Garden Library continuing in-house scanning process

• Other BHL members also have non-Internet Archive scanning operations

• Ingest of other interested libraries

The BHL Portal!

The BHL Portal is not an OPAC!

Metadata – failure to serve

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Metadata: Real MARC – Still failure to serve

- Specimen- Plate or other visual image- Taxonomic description

Plant Names

Specimens

Plant Names

Plant NamesSpecimensDescriptions

Plant Names

Plant Names

Citations

BHL Portal Demo

Example Seaches :

IA; BHL :

Insecta; publication mensuelle•http://www.archive.org

•http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org

•http://www.google.com/

IA; BHL; Google :

As nature shows them

http://www.eol.org/

“Article-izing” content

User-generated metadata

Example

http://biodiversitylibrary.org/pdfgen/15371I

User-Generated PDFs

http://cite.biodiversitylibrary.org/

Permissions agreements with publishers of natural science content

• Rhodora

• American Ornithologist’s Check-list of North American Birds | AOU Check-list in BHL

Requests User-solicited identification of literature corpus

Developing the Collection

Thanks for sticking around!

BHL Portalhttp://www.biodiversitylibrary.org

Citehttp://cite.biodiversitylibrary.org

Internet Archivehttp://www.archive.org

Ubiohttp://www.ubio.org

Links

Credits

Thanks to all the BHL partner staff who have worked on presentations over the years!