forging the digital roadmap: the preservation, curation and stewardship nexus

Forging a Digital Roadmap: The Preservation, Curation and Stewardship

Nexus

Bianca Crowley

Collections CoordinatorSmithsonian Libraries

Forging a Digital Roadmap: The Preservation, Curation and Stewardship

Nexus

Bianca Crowley

Collections CoordinatorSmithsonian Libraries

OR…Recalculating Route: Making inroads

into new territories

http://biodiversitylibrary.org

>58,000 titles >108,000 volumes > 39 million pages

The BHL is…

• A consortium of 14 natural history, botanical libraries and research institutions

• An open access digital library for legacy biodiversity literature.

• An open data repository of taxonomic names and bibliographic information

• An increasingly global effort

BHL Digitization Overview

BHLBHLUser Feedback

User Feedback

Descriptive MetadataDescriptive Metadata

Images, OCR text,

XMLTaxonomic

Name Services

What does a Collections Coordinator do?

Challenges

• Article access• Preservation: Replication &

Synchronization• Integrating content scanned outside

standard workflow• Deduplication• OCR accuracy• Copyright issues• Funding & resources

(of course!)

Lessons Learned

• Collaboration is key• Content is King• If you make your data available, people will

use it• Value of experimentation and failure• Be flexible• “Just Do It”

Future Directions

• Article level access– Reconfiguring back-end BHL database– Harvesting metadata from Biostor.org (thanks Roderic D.M.

Page)

• New user interface coming soon!

BHLBHL

Biostor.orgBiostor.org

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Rod Page

Rod PageBHL

Curation: a Patient Practice…

Curation: a Patient Practice…

Curation: a Patient Practice that Pays Off!

Curation: a Patient Practice that Pays Off!

Curation: your Users can Help

Curation: your Users can Help

Stewardship: Our Role in the Biodiversity Research

“Ecology”

NameIndexes

Nomen-clators

Species Checklists

Phylogenies

Collecting Events

Localities

Researchers

Field Notes

Content Aggregators

EOL

Datasets

Biodiversity Literature

Publications

Scientific Names

BHL

Specimens

Thank you!

Bianca Crowleycrowleyb@si.edu

Slides: slideshare.net/lipscombbBiodiversity Heritage Library

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blog.biodiversitylibrary.org

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