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An International Cooperative Digital Library for Taxonomic Literature: The Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin Kalfatovic. The Catholic University of America, School of Library and Information Science. LSC 715. 6 June 2008. Washington, DC.TRANSCRIPT
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Martin R. KalfatovicSmithsonian Institution Libraries6 June 2008
An International Cooperative Digital
Library for Taxonomic Literature
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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)
Darwin, C. R. et al. 1847. Copy of Memorial to the First Lord of the Treasury [Lord John Russell], respecting the Management of the British Museum. Parliamentary Papers, Accounts and Papers 1847, paper number (268), volume XXXIV.253 (13 April): 1-3. [Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online]
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Taxonomic descriptions must be published for the name to be valid
Publications must be available to the public through trusted sources
Libraries have been the traditional place
Taxonomic Literature
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The cited half-life of publications in taxonomy is longer than in any other scientific discipline
* * * The decay rate is longer than in any scientific discipline
~ Macro-economic case for open accessTom Moritz
Taxonomic Literature
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Over 250 years of systematic description of life
Systema naturae (10th ed. 1758) by Carl von Linné
Taxonomic Literature
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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.
BHL Timeline
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BHL MembersAmerican Museum of Natural History (New York)
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
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BHL Members
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (contributing member)
Scheme for addition of European and Asian partners underway
Additional categories of membership under consideration
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BHL Focus: Literature
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BHL Focus: Literature
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The 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
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Scribe Scanner
• Single Scribe Machine– Custom built by the
Internet Archive– Human operated– 3,500 page per shift per
day
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BHL Scanning Centers
Northeast Regional Scanning Center 10 Scribe machines MBL/WHOI Harvard
New York Public Library 10 Scribe machines AMNH NYBG
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BHL Scanning Centers
University of Illinois 2 Scribe machines
Natural History Museum, London 1 Scribe machine
Missouri Botanical Garden Non-Scribe operation
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BHL Scanning Centers
Washington, DC 1 Scribe machine at
Smithsonian Libraries 10 Scribe facility at
Library of Congress with Fedlink (operational Spring 2008)
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Scanning Stats: Now
5.5 million plus total pages scanned (and growing daily)
<90,000 Fieldiana (via UIUC)
>100,000 pages each Harvard, New York Botanical Garden,
225,000+ pages from the American Museum of Natural History
400,000+ from Smithsonian Libraries
500,000+ from the Natural History Museum, London
800,000 Missouri Botanical Garden Library
1,000,000+ from the MBL/WHOI library
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But what about ...
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BHL \ Google(the difference between)
Bibliographic accuracy for all materials
Ability to re-purpose and reuse all data as needed
Congruence of original printed materials to digital versions
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Persistent Identifiers Stable URL Handle DOI BICI/SICI ISSN ISBN LSIDs
http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org
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Structural Markup<article> <title>A BRIEF CONSIDERATION OF
CERTAIN POINTS IN THE MORPHOLOGY OFTHE FAMILY CHALCIDID^E.*.</title>
<author>L. O. HOWARD.</author> <volume>1</volume> <issue>2</issue> <start_page>65</start_page> <end_page>86</end_page> <start_count_page>85</start_count_page> <end_count_page>106</end_count_page>
<start_page_image_file>3908800908001101smthrich_0085.djvu</start_page_image_file>
<end_page_image_file>3908800908001101smthrich_0106.djvu</end_page_image_file>
</article>
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Semantic Markup
GoldenGATEThe intention of the GoldenGATE editor is to build a bridge between NLP components and XML markup of natural language text according to arbitrary XML schemas. It allows the deployment of NLP components to marking up the bodies of literature they were designed for. In this way, it enables transforming the texts into XML content according to an XML schema that was designed to gain maximum benefit from the knowledge provided in them.
Integrated Open Taxonomic Access (INOTAXA)
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10.7 million name strings in NameBank
Uses sophisticated algorithm (TaxonGrab) to locate likely name strings in OCR text
Iterative processing of BHL texts will both increase the number of name strings in NameBank and increase the accuracy of name string recognition
Taxonomic Intelligence
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BHL & Publishers
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Permissions
• Seek permissions from copyright holders
• Opt in Copyright Model: The BHL will actively work with professional societies and associations to integrate their publications into the BHL in a way that serves the societies’ missions and goals
• BHL will digitize learned society backfiles and mount them through the BHL Portal at no cost.
• Will provide a set of files to the publishers for reuse as they see fit
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BHL Advantages• Use of the articles will increase
as evidenced by citation upsurge• Long-term management of the
digital assets is provided by the BHL at no cost
• Publishers’ content is embedded in the emerging knowledge ecology that is sweeping biology in this century
• Structural markup of backfiles into conformance with NLM DTD (just starting)
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Successes
• Entomological News• Journal of Hymenoptera
Research
• Herpetological Review
• Publications of the San Diego Natural History Museum
• California Academy of Sciences publications
• And more ...
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BHL Portal• Library catalog-like interface
to BHL literature• Enhanced structural
analysis to provide volume/issue/article page access to the literature
• Iterative development based on feedback from user community
• Provide access to two key audiences:–Humans–Machines
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Initial grant from the MacArthur and Sloan Foundations (as part of the Encyclopedia of Life grant)
Additional support from parent institutions
Additional grants being actively pursued by BHL and individual members
Funding
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• Co-evolving bioinformatics resources produce a rich information ecology:
– Consortium for the Barcoding of Life (CBOL) with gene sequences deposited in GenBank.
– GBIF’s Electronic Catalog of Taxonomic Names
– Herbaria and museum specimen databases
Looking Forward
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• Quick ramp-up high early costs – development, mass scanning, etc.
• Derive some long-term costs from the operating budgets of the member institutions (Examples under consideration: acquisitions budget, staff positions, etc.)
• Integrate functions/tasks with wider efforts where appropriate, e.g. mass storage
Looking Forward
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Institutions that are creating the BHL exist to persist through time. That’s an important part of their business
The future is uncertain, the technology landscape changes, people pass on. So create consortial structures that are low-overhead, flexible, and can respond quickly
The Long Now Strategy
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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
A Global Library for Life
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Midrange estimate: 25% of 5 million species = 1.3 million species, or roughly 1 every 20 minutes
Low estimate: 15% of 4 million species = 0.6 million species, or roughly 1 every 44 minutes.
High estimate: 50% of 6 million species = 3 million species, or roughly 1 every 9 minutes
Conservation Internationalhttp://tinyurl.com/3hzkax
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Thank You ... for sticking around!
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Biodiversity Heritage Libraryhttp://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/
Biodiversity Heritage Library Bloghttp://biodiversitylibrary.blogspot.com
Encyclopedia of Lifehttp://www.eol.org/
Smithsonian Institution Librarieshttp://www.sil.si.edu/
Universal Biological Indexer and Organizerhttp://www.ubio.org/
Biologia Centrali-Americana http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/bca/
LINKS
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Thanks to:
Chris Freeland, Missouri Botanical Garden
Tom Garnett, The Biodiversity Heritage Library
The staff at the Internet Archive
Images from
The Galaxy of Images, Smithsonian Libraries (www.sil.si.edu/imagegalaxy)
Martin R. Kalfatovic
Suzanne C. Pilsk
Bernard Scaife
CREDITS