BHL Institutional Council Meeting | March 2012Harvard / Museum of Comparative Zoology

Secretariat and Technical StaffAugust 2011Program Director

Program ManagerCollections Coordinator

Technical DirectorProgrammerData Analyst

The Biodiversity Heritage Library: 2006

Now we are 15 … Library of Congress is #15

15 Members•Academy of Natural Sciences Library and Archives•American Museum of Natural History Library•California Academy of Sciences Library•Cornell University Library•The Field Museum Library•Harvard University Botany Libraries•Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology•Library of Congress•Marine Biological Laboratory and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Library•Missouri Botanical Garden Library•Natural History Museum, London, Library & Archives •The New York Botanical Garden•Royal Botanic Garden, Kew, Library & Archives•Smithsonian Institution Libraries•United States Geological Survey Libraries

Specimen collections

Databases

Publications

Observations

‘Gray’ literature

Index cards

Field notebooks

Taxonomic Impediment

Technology Library Science

Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Images (JP2)PDFCoordinate-based OCRXML metadata

BHL Architecture: Window Seat Ed.

BHL DBBHL DB

Internet ArchiveInternet Archive

Storage

Logic

APIsAPIs UIUI DataExportsData

Exports

Access

Data TransformUtilities

Data TransformUtilities

GeocodingGeocoding

Name FindingName

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40,722,203 pages112,867 items59,158 titles

4 May 2013

Content Growth2007-2013

… and now including segments

92,413 “segments”

Items AddedPast 12 Months: 7,963Previous 12 Months: 14,562

Past 12 months average: 664 / month

59,159

51,196

Increase agreementswith publishers of in copyright materials

US Titles: 206UK Titles: 67TOTAL TITLES: 273

US Licensors: 85UK Licensors: 40

TOTAL LICENSORS: 125

2012 BHL Member In-kind Staff FTE & Costs (incomplete)

14.193 FTE from the 14 member institutions$1,239,300 staff and other costs

(does not include Secretariat or Technical staff)

2012 BHL Central Support

7.055 FTE 4.43 FTETechnical

2.625 FTESecretariat

Staff$316,053

Other$ 78,477

Total$394,531

Staff$472,529

Other$ 22,615

Total$495,144

User Statistics: 2007 - 2013Visitors: 3,628,088Page Views: 17,604,395New vs. Returning: 50.06% vs. 49.04%

2007

2013146,798 visitors | November 2012

233 countriesUsers in 233 Countries

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But humans can still provide spikes9 Nov 2012

Exploring new audiences and services

Since DPLA launch on 18 April 2013, it is now the #8 referrer and generates 71% of new visits

3.8 million total views | 63,000 images (13 Feb 13)

Scanning Operations: Macaw

BHL Institutional Council Meeting, Cambridge, MA, 15-16 March 2012

Digital Public Library of America Mini-Hack-a-Thon, Cambridge, MA, 4-5

April 2012

Digital Public Library of America West Plenary Meeting and Workstreams

Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 26-27 April 2012

3rd Global BHL Meeting, Berlin, 7-8 June 2012

BHL Europe. Final Events, Berlin, 4-6 June 2012

Smithsonian Libraries and BHL, Mae Jemison Science Reading Room. Pretoria,

South Africa. 11 June 2012 [presentation]

BHL African Meeting, Cape Town, South Africa, June 14-15 2012

BHL Staff and Technical Meeting, Cambridge, MA, 27-28, 2012

Internet Archive Leaders' Forum, San Francisco, CA, 24-25 October 2012 EOL Work Group Leaders Meeting. Cambridge, MA, 29-30 November 2012

JSTOR Plants Meeting, Panama City, Panama, 6-11 January 2013

Third Phenotype Ontology Research Coordination Network Annual Summit

meeting, Durham, NC, 25-27 February 2013

Fulbright Academy Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, 15 February 2013

I Annotate: Annoto Ergo Sum, San Francisco, CA, 10-12 April 2013

BHL Africa Launch, Pretoria, South Africa, 15-18 April 2013

BHL Staff Meeting | September 2012Harvard / Museum of Comparative Zoology

JSTOR Global Plant InitiativePanama City, Panama, January 2013

3rd Global BHL Meeting: Berlin June 2012

Global BHL Steering CommitteeAugust 2011 Vice Chair SecretaryChair

Trish Rose-Sandler, Missouri Botanical GardenDLF Forum 2012 Denver CO Art of Life project

FacebookTotal Page Likes: 4,384

Twitter @ BioDivLibraryTotal Followers: 2,369

Pinterest2,373 images & 16 collections

BlogTotal Visits: 9,096(2Q13)

BHL Social MediaFebruary 2013

Outreach

ALA Midwinter Meeting | Seattle, WA | January 2013Co-sponsored with the Field Notes Project

Community / Partnership / Science / Content

Inspiring discovery through free access to biodiversity knowledge

Thanks … Questions and Discussion