Biodiversity Heritage Library for Boston Library Consortium

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

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

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’

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

Biodiversity Heritage Library for Boston Library Consortium

by Chris Freeland on Mar 18, 2008

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