The Biodiversity Heritage Library. 10+1 and Beyond: Looking Forward. Martin R. Kalfatovic. BHL Day 2016, Natural History Museum. London, 12 April 2016.

1. Martin R. Kalfatovic |ProgramDirector
12 April 2016 |London
@udcmrk|@BioDivLibrary |#BHLDay
The Biodiversity Heritage Library
10+1 and Beyond: Looking Forward

2. Good Afternoon!
Goeie middag!
!
大家下午好！ Dobré
odpoledne!
God eftermiddag!
G'day!
Goedemiddag!
Bon après-midi!
Guten Tag!
Καλό απόγευμα!
Feasgar math!
Gudde Mëtteg!
Buenas tardes!
Good mchana!
Bona tarda!
!
Jó napot kívánok!
Dea-tráthnóna!
Buon pomeriggio!
Salve!
Prynhawn da!

3. The cultivation of natural
science cannot be
efficiently carried on
without reference to an
extensive library...
Charles Darwin, et al (1847)

4. The cultivation of natural
science cannot be
efficiently carried on
without reference to an
extensive library...
Charles Darwin, et al (1847)

5. The BHL 10+1 and Beyond: Looking Forward

6. Inspiring Discovery through
Free Access to Biodiversity Knowledge
VisionThe Biodiversity Heritage Library
improves research methodology
by collaboratively making biodiversity
literature openly available to the world
as part of a global biodiversity
community.
Mission

7. A global project that encompasses
Libraries ScienceTechnology

8. Stewardship
Service
Leadership
Engagement
International
Focus
Inspiration

9. Stewardship
BHL must be trustworthy, reliable and
accountable to its users, sponsors,
members and partners. We operate
with transparency and adhere to the
highest ethical standards to ensure this
trust and to ensure access to BHL
digital content now and into the future.

10. Stewardship
48.8 million pages of
biodiversity literature are not
enough … BHL will continue to
scan the legacy literature &
actively seek permission for in-
copyright materials to advance
the world’s knowledge of life
on the planet

11. Stewardship
BHL builds on the important
collections in our partner libraries.
The combination of anywhere
digital collections and carefully
conserved physical collections will
remain a priority in years ahead.

12. Stewardship
BHL will continue to
unlock treasures, both
images and text, in its
collections by
providing better
access to illustrations
and full-text search.

13. Stewardship
BHL must increase the content types
that are needed for the work of the
biodiversity community.
The first are field notes and related
materials that are often the first
descriptions of new species.

14. Service
The BHL serves the world of
biodiversity researchers and those
interested in biodiversity through
aggregation and stewardship of the
digital files and through improving
discoverability and user interfaces and
increasing opportunities for research
and interpretation.

15. BHL will be a tool for other
machines as much as for
human researchers. BHL will
be further optimtized for ...
Service

16.  Application Protocol
Interfaces (APIs) for access to
content
 Downloads for data reuse
 Creation of a computational
data store for deep data mining
 Unique identifiers at multiple
levels
Service

17. Engagement
By engaging with user communities
across the globe the BHL will support
discovery and innovative uses of open
access biodiversity information to
facilitate dialogue about scientific
issues within social and cultural
contexts.

18. Engagement
BHL is used in exhibitions in our
partner institutions, such as “Once
There Were Billions” at the
Smithsonian.

19. Engagement
BHL will continue to engage
the community in new ways
to enhance content …
 Science Gossip

20. Engagement
BHL will continue to engage
the community in new ways
to enhance content …
 Experimentation with new
platforms, like gaming

21. Engagement
BHL will continue to engage
the community in new ways
to enhance content …
 Flickr image tagging

22. Leadership
We aspire to leadership in the
realms of digital libraries,
collaboration, and open
access for biodiversity
literature.

23. BHL must be
trustworthy, reliable and
accountable to its users,
sponsors, members and
partners. We operate
with transparency and
adhere to the highest
ethical standards to
ensure this trust and to
ensure access to BHL
Leadership

24. The BHL has received the
generous support of
participating institutions,
national governments, and
private foundations
Leadership

25. Since 2006, these governmental
funding agencies and private
foundations have contributed …
$US14.3 million to the success
of BHL.
Leadership

26. Over 150 generous individual
donors from 26 countries have
provided over $US24,000 to
directly support BHL digitization
– that represents over a quarter
million pages of biodiversity
literature!
Leadership

27. An additional $US42,000 has
been donated directly to the
Smithsonian Libraries to support
the BHL Secretariat and field
book work.
Leadership

28. And our own BHL Members,
Affiliates, and Partners have
contributed $US1.3 million and
14 FTE in direct or indirect
support during calendar year
2015.
Leadership

29. Continue to work with national
and pan-national digital
libraries such as the Digital
Public Library of America and
Europeana to further distribute
BHL content in new ways.
Leadership

30. Continue to work with national
and pan-national biodiversity
organizations further distribute
BHL content in new ways.
Leadership

31. International Focus
Working across institutional and
political boundaries, the BHL engages
with partners across the globe in
building content, repatriating literature,
supporting partners, innovative
approaches to long-term capacity
building and sustainability harmonising
content and rights issues.

32. International Focus
Henning Scholtz (MfN) and
Graham Higley (NHM) saw the
benefits of the globalization of
the BHL early, in 2009. Their
initiatives lead to the formation of
BHL Europe in 2009 with an
eContentPlus grant from the EU
for €3.36m

33. International Focus

34. International Focus

35. International Focus

36. 1. London
2. Paris
3. New York
4. Washington
5. Mexico City
6. Berlin
7. Sydney
8. Vienna
9. Sao Paulo
10. Madrid
International Focus

37. Inspiration
The BHL stimulates curiosity about
nature and culture, inspiring people to
learn, explore, and better understand
their role and impact in this world.

38. “BHL is an awesomely useful resource! It’s very
helpful to have the BHL when I’m traveling away from
‘home base.’ No need to carry around a rare 120 year
old book if you can just open a scanned file of it on
your computer.”
Dr. Christopher M., Invertebrate Zoologist
BHL is radically changing the status
quo and democratizing access to
knowledge about biodiversity. Now
anybody in the world has instant
access to the original species
descriptions
Dr. John S., Ichthyologist
Inspiration

39. I am a PhD student and your library
is one of the most important
fountains of knowledge for me - the
literature available at BHL is often
not available anywhere else - since
I have to rely heavily on historic
works.
Moyna M.
Inspiration

40. Biodiversity Heritage Library never ceases to amaze me- crucial
for #taxonomy (via @charneena)
Biodiversity Heritage Library is extraordinary free repository 4
researchers & nat historians. Have a gander…(@lawsofben)
Biodiversity Library: *invaluable* in our recent revision of
Australian #stinglessbees -Thanks to all @BioDivLibrary
(@annedollin)
Love animals? Love fine vintage prints? Explore the
@BioDivLibrary collection and indulge! (@UnitedDP)
Inspiration

41. I feel that BHL has helped reignite a
love of natural history, both for me
at a personal level, but also more
broadly in biology.
Dr. Christopher Buddle
Inspiration

42. Thanks to ...
BHL Past Leaders
 Graham Higley
 Cathy Norton
 Tom Garnett
 Chris Freeland
 William Ulate

43. Thanks to ...
BHL Executive
Committee
 Nancy E. Gwinn
 Constance Rinaldo
 Jane Smith

44. Thanks to ...
BHL Secretariat
 Carolyn Sheffield
 Grace Costantino
 Bianca Crowley

45. And to ...
The Zeros and Ones of
BHL … Mike Lichtenberg
has been the key
programmer and web
developer for BHL since
2007.

46. In conclusion
I have no doubt that in reality
the future will be vastly more
surprising than anything I can
imagine.
J.B.S. Haldane (1927)