Encylopedia of Life Informatics (Data Model) Workshop: Engaging Partners

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    1. Encyclopedia of Life Informatics (Data Model) Workshop
        • Engaging Partners
        • The Biodiversity Heritage Library
      Martin R. Kalfatovic Smithsonian Institution Libraries
    2. Engaging Partners Round Table
      • Martin R. Kalfatovic
        • Head, New Media Office and Preservation Services Department Smithsonian Institution Libraries
      • Areas of Interest
        • Digital conversion technologies
        • Network information discovery and retrieval
        • Technology review editor, Library Information Technology Association (LITA)
      • Areas of Work
        • Writing purchase orders and annoying staff in the contracts office
    3. Vast, But Not Infinite
    4. Vast, But Not Infinite
      • 100 characters (Western European languages, plus spaces and some punctuation)
      • Each line has 50 spaces
      • Each page is 40 lines long
      • Each book is 500 pages long
      • Total Books: 100 1,000,000
      • Googolplex: 1 followed by a googol (10 100 ) zeros
      Kurd Lasswitz, “The Universal Library.” 1901 Jorge Louis Borges, “The Library of Babel.” 1941 Daniel Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea . 1995
    5. But where can we put it?
      • Compressed (at today’s standards) this would be about 50 petabytes (about the size of a small-town library building)
    6. Digitization Projects
      • Amazon: Search Inside the Book
      • Google Book Search
      • Microsoft Live Text!
      • Open Content Alliance
      • Biodiversity Heritage Library
    7. Challenges/Opportunities
      • Cheap Scanning
        • Internet Archive Scribe
        • Kirtas APT 2400 Scanner
    8. What Do You Do With a Million …?
      • Books?
      • Name strings?
      • Images?
      • Specimens?
      • Web pages?
    9. Engaging Partners
      • Can the layered architecture accommodate input from and contribute to your project?
        • Yes
    10. Engaging Partners
      • Do you have any software / components that you would like to integrate within the EoL informatics package?
        • Chris Freeland
    11. Engaging Partners
      • Can we build crosswalks with your project?
        • BHL data will provide the historic groundwork for a significant number of EoL species content
    12. Engaging Partners
      • What changes to the data model or additional WorkBench modules would help meet your needs ...
        • Within the WorkBench layer, building bibliographic citation scraping tools that can roundtrip between EoL and other tools: e.g. Zotero and Connotea
    13. Engaging Partners
      • “The world has arrived at an age of cheap complex devices of great reliability; and something is bound to come of it”
      • - Vannevar Bush (1945)

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