world wide access to biodiversity literature - the biodiversity heritage library
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Presentation given by Henning Scholz at the BioSystematics Symposium 2011 in BerlinTRANSCRIPT
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World wide access to biodiversity literatureThe Biodiversity Heritage Library
Henning Scholz1 & Tom Garnett2
1Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany
2Smithsonian Libraries, Washington, USA
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Charles Darwin et al. 1847
The cultivation of natural science cannot be efficiently carried on without reference to an extensive library.
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Ten years ago
Virtual libraries (online)
Digital libraries (online)
Download/print books & articles
E-Journals & Open Access
PDF & Email
OPAC, library catalogues
Libraries (travel)
Copy books & articles
Printed material
Reprints & snail mail
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Ecosystem of services
BHLBHL-Europe
BHL-China
BHL-Australia
BHL-SouthAmerica
Arab Language BHL
CiteBank
EoL
EuropeanaGRIB EDIT
CoL
VIAF
EJT
vifabio
AnimalBase
Tropicos
BioStor
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BHL
http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/
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BHL 2007
SIL, MOBOT, AMNH, Harvard Botany Library, MCZ, MBL/WHOI, Field Museum, NYBG
NHM, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
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BHL today
• 87,788 volumes online• 32,706,117 pages online (9.2.2011)
• About 70 Tb data• OCR, page level access• Bibliographic indexing• Taxonomic metadata• Metadata re-use• Open Access
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BHL today
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BHL today
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BHL-Europe
http://www.bhl-europe.eu
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BHL-Europe
Main principles:• No digitisation
BHL-Europe is not funded to digitise
• Best Practice Network No research and development project Building a solution with existing (state-of-the-art)
technologies and bring it onto the market Existing European repositories of digital biodiversity
literature into a multilingual BHL-Europe portal and Europeana
Long-term preservation and sustainability
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BHL-Europe Partner
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BHL-Europe results
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GRIB
Aim: Develop bibliographic database (union catalogue with content management and deduplication functionalities).
Global Reference Index to Biodiversity (http://grib.gbv.de)
Collaboration: European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy (EDIT)
User: Scientist, taxonomist, librarian
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Europeana
• >15 million objects
• Mona Lisa to Charles Darwin
• Texts, images, videos, sounds
• 88,997 BHL-Europe objects
• Three BHL-Europe partners
• Non BHL-Europe content
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BHL-Global
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BHL-Global
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Regional Requirements
Mass digitisation
Contractual obligations (MacArthur)
Driven by EoL
Service for scientists
Copyright
Technology
Improve interoperability
Contractual obligations (EC)
Driven by Europeana
Service for the public
Copyright
Technology
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BioSystematics 2011
You are the user…
…vivid discussions
…future developments
…hands on training
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Dr. Henning Scholz Project Coordinator BHL-Europe
Museum für Naturkunde Invalidenstraße 43 D-10115 Berlin
Email: [email protected]
http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org http://www.bhl-europe.euhttp://www.bhl-europe.eu
…Questions