Biodiversity Heritage Library www.biodiversitylibrary.org Chris Freeland Director of Bioinformatics, Missouri Botanical Garden Technical Director, Biodiversity Heritage Library [email_address]

Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) 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. One never knows wherein one edition differs from or supplements the other and unless these are on the same table at the same time it is not possible to collate them properly. Moreover for accurate work it is necessary for the student to verify every reference he may find ; it is not enough to copy from a previous author; he must verify each reference itself from the original . Charles Davies Sherborn, Epilogue to Index Animalium , March 1922 Charles Davies Sherborn (1861-1942)

Biodiversity Heritage Library The cited half-life of publications in taxonomy is longer than in any other scientific discipline * * * The decay rate is longer than in any scientific discipline - Macro-economic case for open access, Tom Moritz Levinus Vincent Elenchus tabularum, pinacothecarum, 1719

BHL Partners Museums American Museum of Natural History (New York) Natural History Museum (London) Smithsonian Institution (Washington) The Field Museum (Chicago) Botanical Gardens Missouri Botanical Garden New York Botanical Garden Royal Botanic Garden, Kew University Libraries Botany Libraries, Harvard University Ernst Meyer Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University University of Illinois Bioinformatics Institutes MBL/WHOI uBio.org

Museums

American Museum of Natural History (New York)

Natural History Museum (London)

Smithsonian Institution (Washington)

The Field Museum (Chicago)

Botanical Gardens

Missouri Botanical Garden

New York Botanical Garden

Royal Botanic Garden, Kew

University Libraries

Botany Libraries, Harvard University

Ernst Meyer Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University

University of Illinois

Bioinformatics Institutes

MBL/WHOI

uBio.org

BHL Tech Partner: Internet Archive Scanning on Scribes Storage in Petaboxes

Botanicus & BHL

BHL Portal Features Ingest from IA using OAI

Ingest from IA using OAI

JPEG2000 (*.jp2) display RAW or TIF original => 85% .jp2 LuraTech encoder Wavelet compression LizardTech decoder Tiled on the fly, cached for performance GSIV browser-based client viewer ‘ AJAXian’

RAW or TIF original => 85% .jp2

LuraTech encoder

Wavelet compression

LizardTech decoder

Tiled on the fly, cached for performance

GSIV browser-based client viewer

‘ AJAXian’

Parsed Subject Headings/Tag Cloud Subject Heading from library catalog Expressed as MARCXML Tag Cloud

Google Maps API

TIF Image from Scanner Converted to text via PrimeOCR Name finding via TaxonFinder Extract names Submit to NameBank SOAP response Name Finding in action with Taxonomic Intelligence…

Discovered Bibliography Interface http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/name/Epidendrum_liliastrum

BHL Name Services http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/services/name/NameService.asmx

Coming soon…

Citation Resolution Open URL via OpenURL

Open URL

Migration to Fedora platform

Evaluation of Name Finding

Current Architecture Internet Archive Web access BHL Portal & Taxonomic Intelligence

Future Architecture BHL Portal & Taxonomic Intelligence Internet Archive Node European Digital Library French national node Chinese national node Multiple language interfaces Node Node Fedora objects

URLs BHL Portal www.biodiversitylibrary.org BHL Discovered Bibliography example www.biodiversitylibrary.org/name/ Epidendrum_liliastrum BHL Name Services www.biodiversitylibrary.org/services/name/NameService.asmx

BHL Portal

www.biodiversitylibrary.org

BHL Discovered Bibliography example

www.biodiversitylibrary.org/name/ Epidendrum_liliastrum

BHL Name Services

www.biodiversitylibrary.org/services/name/NameService.asmx

Thank You! Chris Freeland Director of Bioinformatics, Missouri Botanical Garden Technical Director, Biodiversity Heritage Library [email_address]