bhl-europe for sherborn 2011 - henning scholz

Biodiversity Heritage Library for EuropeTools and Services for Legacy Taxonomic Literature

Henning ScholzMuseum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany

Charles Davies Sherborn“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.” “Moreover for accurate work it is necessary for the student to verify every reference he may find; it is not enough to copy from a previous author; he must verify each reference itself from the original.”

BHL

http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/

BHL 2007

SIL, MOBOT, AMNH, Harvard Botany Library, MCZ, MBL/WHOI, Field Museum, NYBG

NHM, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew

BHL today

BHL accomplishments

94,636 volumes & 35.4 million pages (October 2011)

OCR, page level access

TaxonFinder

Developer tools, e.g. Data Export, API

Permissions to scan in copyright content

Link between EOL species pages and BHL

CiteBank

Darwin Library

Global BHL

BHL-Global

Portals

BHL-Europe

http://www.bhl-europe.eu

Vision and mission

European biodiversity knowledge freely available globally to everyone.

BHL-Europe mission statement Mobilising and preserving digital European biodiversity heritage literature and facilitating the open access to this literature through a multilingual community portal, the Global References Index to Biodiversity, and Europeana.

BHL-Europe vision statement

(In contrast to BHL, BHL-Europe is not funded to digitise)

BHL-Europe organisation

BHL-Europe organisation

BHL-Europe server

BHL-Europe access routes

GRIB

Bibliographic database (union catalogue of natural history institutions with content management and deduplication functionalities).

Global References Index to Biodiversity (http://grib.gbv.de)

Collaboration: European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy (EDIT), Head office of the Common Library Network GBV (VZG)

User: Scientist, taxonomist, librarian

http://grib.gbv.de

556,077 de-duplicated records

Best Practice Guide

Collection analysis

IPR guidance

Scanning costs

Metadata handling, requirements

Digitisation workflow

Image requirements

Data harmonisation, Schema Mapping Tool

OLEF

http://www.bhl-europe.eu/bhl-schema/v0.3/

Schema Mapping Tool

• Slim, easy to use, cross platform, standalone application (JAVA)

• http://bhl.nhm-wien.ac.at/smt/launch.html

• Built in schemas:

ESE 3.2 & 3.3MARC21MODS 3.4OLEF 0.3

Schema Mapping Tool & OLEF

BHL-Europe Portal

BHL-Europe Portal

Name finding

Taxonomic names (incl. common names and synonyms):

- Taxon Finder (uBio) - http://www.ubio.org/index.php?pagename=xml_services

- Catalogue of Life - www.catalogueoflife.org

- PESI - www.eu-nomen.eu/pesi/

Author names

- Virtual International Authority Files (VIAF) - www.viaf.org

Serial names

- Zeitschriftendatenbank (serial database; ZDB)

http://www.zeitschriftendatenbank.de/

Name finding

BHL-Europe Portal

Virtual exhibition

Europeana

• >20 million objects

• Mona Lisa to Charles Darwin

• Texts, images, videos, sounds

• 100,561 BHL-Europe objects

• Nine BHL-Europe partners

Europeana

Dr. Henning Scholz Project Coordinator BHL-Europe

Museum für Naturkunde Invalidenstraße 43 D-10115 Berlin

Email: henning.scholz@mfn-berlin.de

http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org http://www.bhl-europe.eu

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