Sharing Data for Biodiversity: The Biodiversity Heritage Library

Sharing Data for Biodiversity Biodiversity Heritage Library Martin R. Kalfatovic :: Internet Archive Leaders' Forum :: 21 October 2010

Biodiversity Heritage Library  American Museum of  Smithsonian Institution Natural History Libraries  Field Museum  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew  California Academy of Sciences  Missouri Botanical Garden  Museum of Comparative Zoology (Harvard)  Academy of Natural Sciences (Philadelphia)  New York Botanical Garden  Marine Biological Laboratory/WHOI  Natural History Museum (London)  Harvard Botany Libraries

BHL Global data sharing

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> Digitization of biodiversity literature > Creation of a global partnership > Engagement of the research community Achievements

31+ million pages

Six Continents

~1.5 m users 231 countries

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

The Machine is Using Us • Direct Traffic: 16.55% • Referring Sites: 22.20% – EOL – Wikipedia: – Tropicos – Smithsonian – BioOne – Animal Base • Search Engines: 61.15%

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.” http://groups.google.com/group/taxonlit

Open Data Downloads Simple tab-delimited exports of core data http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/data/BHLExportSchema.pdf Data model DB schema as ERD http://bhl-bits.googlecode.com/files/20090930_BHLDataModel.pdf

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 Documentation: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/openurlhelp.aspx Useful to Nomenclators, Reference Systems IPNI Tropicos

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

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Global data sharing requires a social infrastructure

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Taxonomic Impediment  Specimen collections  Databases  Publications  Observations  ‘Gray’ literature  Index cards  Field notebooks

In any well-appointed Natural History Library there should be found every book and every edition of every book dealing in the remotest way with the subjects concerned. Charles Davies Sherborn, Epilogue to Index Animalium, March 1922

The Biodiversity Heritage Library Extensive. Open. Global.

Thank You Thanks to: Chris Freeland, Bianca Crowley, Suzanne Pilsk, Team BHL Global

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