BHL-US role in the Global BHL

BHL BHL-US BHL-US/UK BHL-Classic BHL-Original BHL-AngloAmerican Project Chris Freeland Technical Director, Global BHL

Motivation
Take Books from Library Shelves
Scan Books
Make Users Happy
This is not about us, it’s about scientists in developing countries
We have an embarrassment of riches in our own libraries
We are uniquely poised to produce a global BHL

BHL-US is virtual Internet Archive: Digitized content / files MOBOT: Database & web application MBL: Redundant cluster Metadata Content

Tech Work
More than 83,000 volumes online
More than 2,000 visitors every day
1 Technical Director, who isn’t
1 Full Time Programmer on BHL
1 Full Time Systems Developer
1 Full Time Data Analyst
1 Full Time consultant thru 12/2010

Tech Work Planned
Enhancements based on user survey
Listen to users
Respond to users
CiteBank
Community needs, we can provide
New funding, new opportunities
Darwin’s Library annotations

Human resources available
Attitude to contractors
We LOVE them, when we hire them
Students
We LOVE them, when we can get them
Library staff
We LOVE them.

Funding
Multiple Streams
MacArthur & Sloan Foundations
Funding for scanning, starting BHL
Moore Foundation
Fedora integration
Globalization activities
IMLS
Special Collections
Trio Foundation, others

Drivers/criteria for success
Volumes online
Patrons served
Number of EOL pages with BHL content
Number of referrers to BHL
Positive feedback
*Not revenue*…hmmm…

Integration with other projects
Encyclopedia of Life (EOL)
Tropicos
International Plant Names Index (IPNI)
Internet Archive
BioStor.org
BiblioOdyssey

Dates of major milestones/deliverables
Dec 31, 2010
Have to have completed:
Fedora Integration
Citebank production release
Hard deadline for funding
June 30, 2012
Completion of core funding

Regional Requirements
We have always looked at our work as serving a global audience
Realized we can’t do it alone
Have to make funding organizations happy
Have to make users happy

BHL-US role in the Global BHL

by Chris Freeland

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