The Biodiversity Heritage Library: Corn-fed, Missouri Raised, Going Global

The Biodiversity Heritage Library Corn-fed, Missouri Raised, Going Global Martin R. Kalfatovic Smithsonian Institution Libraries Missouri Botanical Garden August 19, 2009

2003. Telluride. Encyclopedia of Life meeting

February 2005. London. Library and Laboratory: the Marriage of Research, Data and Taxonomic Literature

May 2005. Washington. Ground work for the Biodiversity Heritage Library

June 2006. Washington. Organizational and Technical meeting

August 2006. New York Botanical Garden. BHL Director’s Meeting.

October 2006. St. Louis/San Francisco. Technical meetings

February 2007. Museum of Comparative Zoology. Organizational meeting

May 2007. Encyclopedia of Life and BHL Portal Launch. Washington DC.

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

Scanning Partner Internet Archive Contributor University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Contributor California Digital Library Contributor Library of Congress

Initial grant from the MacArthur and Sloan Foundations (as part of the Encyclopedia of Life grant)‏ Additional support from parent institutions Supplemental grants in place for specific development (e.g. Moore Foundation for Fedora) Additional grants being actively pursued by BHL and individual members

The Encyclopedia of Life

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

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

More than: 36,000 volumes 15 million pages Only 290 million to go! Avg. monthly growth rate 1,500 volumes 600,000 pages See you in 2048! Now Online

Marine Biological Laboratory/WHOI

Marine monographs

General Science

Museum of Comparative Zoology

MCZ publications

Herpetology monographs and serials

Ichthyology monographs and serials

Rough Selection

University of Illinois

Fieldiana

Natural history of Illinois

American Museum of Natural History

AMNH publications

Ornithology

Natural History Museum

NHM publications

Major natural history general serials

Rough Selection

Smithsonian Institution Libraries

Smithsonian publications

Entomology collection

Marine mammals

Fishes

Selected special collections materials

Cooperate with other botanical collections

Rough Selection

Botany Collections

Missouri Botanical Garden,

New York Botanical Garden,

Harvard Botany Libraries, and

Royal Botanic Garden, Kew

Smithsonian Libraries Botany

will cooperatively develop a methodology for botanical publications and botanical collections from other BHL members will fill in gaps

Rough Selection

Collections Coordinator on board in February 2009. Bianca Lipscomb, based at the Smithsonian, will coordinate material selection across the BHL and contributing partners Rough Selection

How to make THIS into 0’s and 1’s

Selection Tools: Combined Serial list for selection of title to scan to avoid duplication of effort Monographic “de-duping” algorithm OCLC Collection Analysis

Mass Scanning Workflow

Bid Lists

Serials Management

Pick Lists

Packing Lists

Monographic Management

Local data flow

WonderFetch (tm)

Return of data

Return of material

Billing

Select Book ~Pull from Shelf Review Physically and Metadata Establish viability and create Wonderfetch Send to IA scanning center Book is scanned & QA Page images loaded Derivatives created Book returned to library Files harvested from IA portal to BHL Taxonomic Intelligence Added Available through BHL

BHL Scanning

Internet Archive

501(c)(3) organization

Dedicated to “Universal Access to Human Knowledge”

Founder of the Open Content Alliance

Provides:

Mass scanning

Archival storage of files

Image processing

Technology development

Single Scribe Machine Built by the Internet Archive Human operated 3,500 page per shift per day

Northeast Regional Scanning Center

10 Scribe machines

MBL/WHOI

Harvard

Jersey City Facility

10 Scribe machines

AMNH

NYBG

University of Illinois

2 Scribe machines

Natural History Museum, London

1 Scribe machine

Missouri Botanical Garden

Non-Scribe operation

Washington, DC

1 Scribe machine at Smithsonian Libraries

11 Scribe facility at Library of Congress (FedScan)‏

Acquiring Other Content

What about other scanning?

Missouri Botanical Garden Library continuing in-house scanning process

Other BHL members also have non-Internet Archive scanning operations

Ingest of other collections 12,000,000 pages+ from other Internet Archive scanning partners

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.

Current Permission Agreement: The agreement is non-exclusive. The copyright holder can use the content for other purposes. It does not involve any transfer of copyright to the BHL or its member institutions. It “grants to the current and future member Participating Institutions of the BHL a world-wide, nonexclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sublicenseable license to digitize and use the Titles (as identified above) in connection with the BHL, including the right to make reproductions in digital form, publicly display, and disseminate the Titles via the BHL and related websites, and create derivative works in digital form based on the Titles. The scope of this license is equivalent to an open source license, which permits others to use, reproduce, supplement, modify, create derivatives, and otherwise use the Titles, for any and all non-commercial purposes, with proper attribution to the Licensor as the source.”

Process: There is room for some modification of the wording of the draft permission document. When it is finalized, BHL Director sign for the BHL and the Editor-in-chief or Chairperson of the society signs. The process is usually very smooth. >60 titles to date, many published in the US, some of which are published in Europe and Asia.

Permissions Database

But what’s this all mean to me!?

Besides Calamari?

Plant Names Specimens Plant Names Plant Names Specimens Descriptions Plant Names Plant Names Citations

Built from a variety of new and existing sources Views available for varying levels of expertise from novice to expert Legacy literature a key component of the EOL species pages Encyclopedia of Life Species Pages

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BHL Portal http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org Cite http://cite.biodiversitylibrary.org Internet Archive http://www.archive.org Ubio http://www.ubio.org Links

Credits

Chris Freeland

Suzanne Pilsk

Tom Garnett

Thanks for sticking around!

The Biodiversity Heritage Library Corn-fed, Missouri Raised, Going Global Martin R. Kalfatovic Smithsonian Institution Libraries Missouri Botanical Garden August 19, 2009