BHL: Purposeful Technology “We get to use emerging technology, not just play around with it.” Chris Freeland Technical Director, BHL Director of Bioinformatics, Missouri Botanical Garden

Goals of BHL Unlock collections Connect scientists with literature Connect literature with users Connect users with other users Inspire

Unlock collections

Connect scientists with literature

Connect literature with users

Connect users with other users

Inspire

Ingest of Materials From Internet Archive Custom process, documented on BHL portal From Botanicus Precursor to BHL MOBOT’s inhouse end-to-end digital library application From Others MARCXML Folder of sequentially named files

From Internet Archive

Custom process, documented on BHL portal

From Botanicus

Precursor to BHL

MOBOT’s inhouse end-to-end digital library application

From Others

MARCXML

Folder of sequentially named files

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

Google Maps API

Raw Image Converted to text via OCR Name finding via TaxonFinder Extract names Submit to NameBank SOAP response Name Finding in action with Taxonomic Intelligence…

JPEG2000 (*.jp2) display RAW or TIF original => 85% .jp2 LuraTech or Kakadu 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 or Kakadu encoder

Wavelet compression

LizardTech decoder

Tiled on the fly, cached for performance

GSIV browser-based client viewer

‘ AJAXian’

Provider Integration Encyclopedia of Life Atrium Andes Biodiversity Wikipedia More to come…

Encyclopedia of Life

Atrium Andes Biodiversity

Wikipedia

More to come…