User Needs for BHL

User Needs: Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) Chris Freeland Technical Director, BHL Application Development Manager, Missouri Botanical Garden

About BHL
American Museum of Natural History
The Field Museum
Harvard University
Marine Biological Laboratory and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Library
Missouri Botanical Garden
Natural History Museum, London
The New York Botanical Garden
Royal Botanic Garden, Kew
Smithsonian Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University Library
http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org

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What BHL is funded to do

BHL development philosophy:
Success is about rapid iteration & large ears
Piso, Willem. Historia naturalis Brasiliae. 1648.

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Human-locatable literature
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OCR Text Stellaria ongipes ? Goldie. Cornwallis Island. Silene acaWlis, L. Woman Islands. Sawfraga oppositifolia, L. Kakkidlarn, Greenland; Cornwallis Island. Sa4mfraga cerua, De Cand. Ukaari; Cornwallis Island. Sairaga csepitosa, L. Wolstenholme, Greenland; Cornwallis Island. Saxfraga rimdaris, De Cand. Whale Fish Island. Sad~ raga nivalis, L. Cornwallis Island. Ptentilla emarginata? Pursh. Wolstenholme. Dipena Lapponica, L. Whale Fish Island. Pyrola rotndifolia, L. Whale Fish Island. Casiope tetragona, Don. Ichauti. Vaccinium uliginosum, L. Loiseleuria procumbens, L. Whale Fish Island. Empetrum nigrum, L. Whale Fish Island. Polygonum viviparm, L. Bushnan Island. Oayria reiformis, L. Whale Fish Island. Eriphorum capitatum, Host. Alpecurus alpinus, Sm. Ibgi. Woodsia ilvenis, R. Br. Whale Fish Island. Lycopodium elago, L. Kiiedmoosi.

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<genus>Polygonum</genus>
<species>viviparm</species>,
<author>L.</author>
<locality>Bushnan Island.</locality>
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Bibliography by taxon

Multiple representations
Biologia Centrali-Americana :zoology, botany and archaeology
Mammalia
Aves v. 1
…
Aves v. 4
Reptilia and Batrachia
Biologia Centrali-Americana : Aves
v. 1 Introduction -- Subclass Aves Carinate. Order Passeres.
v. 2 Subclass Aves Carinate. Order[s]: Passeres (contd.), Macrochires, Pici, Coccyges, Psitta
It’s both…depending on use. Is it Or

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Zea mays L.
Sp. Pl. 2: 971-972. 1753.
Title: Species Plantarum
TL2: 4.769
Tropicos Pub_id: 1071
IPNI Pub_id:1071-2
Volume: 2
Start Page: 971
End Page: 972
Year Published: 1753
http://hdl.handle.net/1234567/9876 http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/358992

Title Registry
Have BPH, TL2, others, but can you USE them?
Title: Species Plantarum
TL2: 4.769
Tropicos Title_id: 1071
……
IPNI Pub_id: 1071-2
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Sad~ raga nivalis
Stellaria ongipes ? Goldie.
Silene acaWlis, L.
Sa4mfraga cerua

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