Building a Global Library of Taxonomic Literature

Building a Global Library of Taxonomic Literature Martin R. Kalfatovic Smithsonian Institution Libraries & Biodiversity Heritage Library XXVIII Congresso Brasileiro de Zoologia Biodiversidade e Sustentabilidade

Johann Baptist von Spix Simiarum et Vespertilionum Brasiliensium Species Novae (1823) Bavarian Expedition to Brazil, 1817-1820

Education and Outreach Smithsonian & Harvard Synthesis Center Field Museum Species Pages & Secretariat Smithsonian Informatics Marine Biological Laboratory Missouri Botanical Garden

American Museum of Natural History (New York) Academy of Natural Sciences Philadelphia California Academy of Sciences (San Francisco) 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

How much is there: Core literature pre- 1923: 100 million pages (?) All pre-1923: 120- 150 million pages All literature: 280-320 million pages

Scanning Partner: Internet Archive • Northeast Regional Scanning Facility (Boston) • Jersey City Facility • University of Illinois • Natural History Museum, London • Missouri Botanical Garden (Non-Scribe operation) • Fedscan (Library of Congress) • Smithsonian Libraries

BHL Members: BHL- Europe • Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin • Natural History Museum, UK • Narodni muzeum NMP CZ • Angewandte Informationstechnik Forschungsgesellschaft mbH • Freie Universität Berlin FUBBGBM • Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Stiftung Öffentlichen Rechts • Naturhistorisches Museum Wien • Hungarian Natural History Museum • Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences • University of Copenhagen

BHL Members: BHL- Europe • Stichting Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum, Naturalis • National Botanic Garden of Belgium • Royal Museum for Central Africa, • Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences • Bibliothèque nationale de France • Museum national d’histoire naturelle • Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas • Università degli Studi di Firenze • Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh • Species 2000 • John Wiley & Sons limited • Helsingin yliopisto UH-Viikki

BHL China • Agreement with the Chinese Academy of Sciences now in place • First joint technical meeting took place in January 2010 • BHL China portal in place

Now Online More than: 40,000 volumes 16 million pages Only 290 million to go! Avg. monthly growth rate 1,500 volumes 600,000 pages See you in 2048!

Acquiring other content ... Researches scanning their own work or literature relevant to their work Journals that have scanned their content, but do not have a robust platform to host it

Biodiversity Heritage Library Permission Process Working with non-profit publishers for sharing with the BHL To digitize and mount works under copyright BHL must obtain permission from the copyright holders. Many biodiversity journals and monographs are published by non-profit institutions or learned societies whose mission is to promote research and learning. Some of these institutions have not sold their rights to commercial publishers and are open to sharing with the BHL.

So what? Does [fill in blank] do that? … and more and faster?

BHL is all about OPEN & SHARING

An inordinate fondness for data Access Putting biodiversity literature in the hands of researchers Set the data free Suck it; mash it; broadcast it Increase Reuse, recyle, expand

Stats: Usage • Jan – Sep 2009 • Daily average – 266,000 visitors – 970 visitors – 436,000 visits – 1,600 visits / day – 2.1million – 7,700 pageviews / pageviews day Jan – Sep 2009 Launch to 30 Sep 2009

Global, coordinated development New functionality from BHL- Europe Improved storage Semantic interface OAIS-compliant preservation infrastructure Building a community of developers Funded & volunteer RubyBHL PyBHL

Open Software & Development BHL Bits: Portal code, utilities, services http://code.google.com/p/bhl- bits/ Taxonomic Literature Group Google Group for discussion of “taxonomic literature & the services required to make literature interoperable within biodiversity research and biodiversity informatics.”

Services Names Service Return all occurrences of a name throughout BHL digitized corpus Documentation: http://bit.ly/2e6sg9 Access to 51million name strings using TaxonFinder 1.4million unique names Working out a strategy for obscure species Algorithm improvements to detect nomenclatural & taxonomic acts OpenURL Facilitate links to citations: protologues, articles, references Useful to Nomenclators, Reference Systems IPNI Tropicos

Services: OpenURL Request http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/openurl? pid=title:3934&volume=3&issue=&spage=262&date=1856 http://www.tropicos.org/Name/1200408

Services: OpenURL Disambiguation Looking for: BHL returns:

Services: OpenURL Results

Encyclopedia of Life 522,000 species pages linked to BHL #1 referring site

Other Consumers EarthCape Labs Sort/Search capabilities with harvested names YouTube demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw7qw87JTOs BioGUID BHL Name Timeline http://bioguid.info/bhl/ BHL Name Comparison http://bioguid.info/bhl/compare.php

Global BHL Based on open access Open content Collaboration Shared development

1.9 million known species … most described once in a hard to find article … wouldn't it be nice to know more about your neighbors ...

Thanks for sticking around!

Building a Global Library of Taxonomic Literature Martin R. Kalfatovic Smithsonian Institution Libraries & Biodiversity Heritage Library XXVIII Congresso Brasileiro de Zoologia Biodiversidade e Sustentabilidade

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