Biodiversity Heritage Library Mashup: Grants & Social Media

Biodiversity Heritage Library*

*Thanks to Grace Costantino, Trish-Rose Sandler & William Ulate for sharing their work.

Grants

• Connecting Content: A Collaboration to Link Field Notes & Published Literature

• The Art of Life: Data Mining & Crowdsourcing the Identification & Description of Natural History Illustrations from the Biodiversity Heritage Library

• Purposeful Gaming & BHL: engaging the public in improving & enhancing access to digital texts

• Digging into Data: Mining Biodiversity Project

Connecting Content: A Collaboration to Link Field Notes & Published Literature

• Digitize field notes & specimens (multiple institutions, completed)

• Expose images on BHL portal (http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=connecting+content#/titles

• Link to specimens (some in-house; GBIF in process)• Link to published literature (in process)• Link to user community via inaturalist

https://www.inaturalist.org/ (in process)• California Academy of Sciences leads the grant

http://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2013/05/documenting-scientific-knowledge-one.html

http://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:Bird:230252

The Art of Life

• BHL Problem statement–users want access to images, access to images is limited–How to broaden the audiences for BHL content?

• Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, USA to the Missouri Botanical Garden May 2012-April 2014

Thanks to Trish-Rose Sandler

Art of Life Primary Objectives & Status

• Define appropriate metadata schema for natural history illustrations (http://tinyurl.com/9hm7nsb) VRA Core with elements from Darwin Core

• Build software tools to automatically identify illustrations in the BHL corpus: algorithms complete, running them now

• Enhance existing tools to enable sorting & editing of identified illustrations (in process)

• Integrate tagging applications so that users can edit descriptive metadata (in process)

• Integrate user-generated metadata into the BHL portal

BHL Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/sets/

Purposeful Gaming & BHLMOBOT leads; start Dec. 2013

• Test new means of crowdsourcing to support the enhancement of content in BHL

• Test digital games as a tool for improving OCR/transcription of handwritten & complex text (example): http://tinyurl.com/kzhvc9y

• Improve access to content• Extend limited staff resources• Exposure of content to new potential users

Thanks to Trish-Rose Sandler & William Ulate

Digging into Data: Mining Biodiversity http://tinyurl.com/knzckpm

• International team with multiple funders: Missouri Botanical Garden is a team member

• Transform BHL into a next-generation social digital library: efficient access & sharing

• Foster interdisciplinary, collaborative discussion of legacy literature worldwide through social media

• Raise awareness of biodiversity changes through time• Integration of text mining, visualization, crowdsourcing &

social media= semantic search for BHL

Courtesy William Ulate

Mining Biodiversity

Social Media: Value & Strategy

Thanks to Grace Costantino & Carolyn Sheffield

Robust Social Media Presence

• http://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/ • https://www.facebook.com/BioDivLibrary• @BioDivLibrary • http://www.pinterest.com/biodivlibrary/ • http://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/se

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Jan-13 Feb-13 Mar-13 Apr-13 May-13 Jun-13 Jul-13 Aug-13 Sep-13 Oct-13 Nov-13 Dec-13

137,312 135,557 128,228 113,495 118,128 110,065 107,503 106,007 111,255 124,446 124,917 107,860

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Social Media & BHL

Visits to BHL Linear (Visits to BHL) Facebook Twitter Blog

36,928 visits from social media to BHL in 2013 13,400 visits from BHL’s own blog, facebook and

twitter accounts

1.4+ million visits to BHL website in 2013

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Jan-13 Feb-13 Mar-13 Apr-13 May-13 Jun-13 Jul-13 Aug-13 Sep-13 Oct-13 Nov-13 Dec-13

137,312 135,557 128,228 113,495 118,128 110,065 107,503 106,007 111,255 124,446 124,917 107,860

1508 1460 1320

670 704 618 592423 401 326 424

258

814464 429

126176

284

105 123 122 11980

41

265 294 231

86 11276

146 127 120 143 148

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Social Media & BHL

Visits to BHL Facebook Twitter Blog

36,928 visits from social media to BHL in 2013 13,400 visits from BHL’s own blog, facebook and

twitter accounts

1.4+ million visits to BHL website in 2013

BHL & Social Media: Flickr

BHL & Social Media: Flickr

Jan-13 Feb-13 Mar-13 Apr-13 May-13 Jun-13 Jul-13 Aug-13 Sep-13 Oct-13 Nov-13 Dec-13

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5676

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118241

525,948 461,740 430,634 498,641 441,143 439,908896,057

2,794,0434,736,541 5,127,901 4,169,963 4,244,808

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Flickr & BHL

Images Added Views Visits to Website

87,000+ Images 24+ Million Views

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