2009.07.10 BHL talk at Field Museum

The Biodiversity Heritage Library 2007 – 2009: A Status Update Martin R. Kalfatovic Suzanne C. Pilsk Smithsonian Institution Libraries Bianca M. Lipscomb Biodiversity Heritage Library The Field Museum :: Chicago, Illinois :: 10 July 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 Science, 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

BHL – Europe Launched in May 2009

28 Institutions

14 countries

3.4 million funding for three years

Discussions underway with the Chinese Academy of Science and the Atlas of Living Australia for BHL components

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 Serine Molecule

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

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

Encyclopedia of Life

BHL 2.0

How to make THIS into 0’s and 1’s

Statistics: 1.3 million catalogue records 73% are monographs (remainder are serials at title-level) 63% is English language material The next most popular language (9%) is German About 30% of material was published before 1923

Rough Selection

Marine Biological Laboratory/WHOI

Marine monographs

General Science

Museum of Comparative Zoology

MCZ publications

Herpetology monographs and serials

Ichthyology monographs and serials

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

Botany Collections

Missouri Botanical Garden,

New York Botanical Garden,

Harvard Botany Libraries, and

Royal Botanic Garden, Kew

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

Rough Selection

Smithsonian Institution Libraries

Smithsonian publications

Entomology collection

Marine mammals

Fishes

Selected special collections materials

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

Ernest Ingersoll Hand-book to the National Museum … Smithsonian Institution , 1886 Mass Scanning Workflow Serial management Bid Lists Monograph Management Dedupper Pick Lists Packing Lists

Mass Scanning Workflow Local data flow Vendor data flow WonderFetch tm Return of data Return of material Billing

Flow of the Process Select Book ~Pull from Shelf Review Physically and Metadata Establish viability and create Wonderfetch tm Send to IA scanning center

Smithsonian shipment to FedScan

Flow of the Process Book is scanned & QA Page images loaded to IA Derivatives created Book returned QA on returned book against images Book returned to library

Flow of the Process Metadata 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 Custom 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 (Natural History Museum)

10 FedScan Facility (Library of Congress)

http://www.bhl.si.edu/wonderfetch.cfm?date1=4/23/2009&date2=4/23/2009 http://www.bhl.si.edu/wonderfetch.cfm?date1=7/2/2009&date2=7/2/2009 http://www.bhl.si.edu/wonderfetch.cfm?date1=5/14/2009&date2=5/14/2009

Staffing:

Administration

Metadata

Collections support

Database/Systems

Conservator

Technicians for pulling

Technicians for Quality Review

Other things:

Travel

Equipment

Transportation

Staffing – Estimates to Reality

Items

“ Cardboard to Cardboard”

A barcoded “book”

Estimated just over 6,000 in a year

Cost: $70.26

Pages

Approximated just over 300 pages in an “item”

Estimated just under 1,900,000 in a year

Cost per page: 0.23

Smithsonian Costs – Estimates to Reality

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 interested libraries

The BHL Portal!

The BHL Portal is not an OPAC!

Metadata – failure to serve

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Specimen

Plate or other visual image

Taxonomic description

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

BHL Portal Demo

Example Seaches :

IA; BHL :

Insecta; publication mensuelle

http://www.archive.org

http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org

http://www.google.com/

IA; BHL; Google :

As nature shows them

http://www.eol.org/

User-Generated PDFs “ Article-izing” content User-generated metadata Example http://biodiversitylibrary.org/pdfgen/15371I

http:// cite.biodiversitylibrary.org /

Developing the Collection

Permissions agreements with publishers of natural science content

Rhodora

American Ornithologist’s Check-list of North American Birds | AOU Check-list in BHL

Requests  User-solicited identification of literature corpus

Thanks for sticking around!

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

Credits Thanks to all the BHL partner staff who have worked on presentations over the years!