Fishing for the Right Content in a Sea of Free E-books

Fishing for
the Right Content
in a Sea of
Free E-books
Bianca Crowley
Biodiversity Heritage Library Collections Coordinator

American Museum of Natural History (New York)
Academy of Natural Sciences Philadelphia
Botany Libraries, Harvard University
California Academy of Sciences (San Francisco)
Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University
Field Museum (Chicago)
Marine Biological Laboratory / Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Missouri Botanical Garden (St. Louis)
Natural History Museum (London)
New York Botanical Garden (New York)
Royal Botanic Garden, Kew
Smithsonian Institution Libraries (Washington)
http://biodiversitylibrary.org

BHL Digitization Overview
SELECTION
Descriptive Metadata
Images, OCR text, XML
Taxonomic Name Services
BHL
User Feedback

Open Access, Open Data
All materials in the BHL collection are open access:
Public domain content
Texts without © renewal
Permission granted from the © holder
Download and re-use of metadata and content files encouraged!
Data export and web services promote the use of BHL data in conjunction with other projects like the Encyclopedia of Life, JSTOR Plant Science and BioStor.

“Biologists, are inclined to agree
that [biodiversity] is, in one sense, everything.”
– E. O. Wilson

Aquaculture
Animal behavior
Animal culture
Animal husbandry
Agricultural ecology
Bioacoustics
Collection & preservation
Biochemistry
Biomechanics
Bioclimatology
Bioluminescence
Biogeomorphology
Coral islands, reefs, & atolls
Continental drift
Conservation biology
Economic botany
Ecology
Ecophysiology
Embryology
Ecosystems
Anatomy
Amphibia
Algae
Forestry
Evolutionary genetics
Angiosperms
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Genetics
Geomicrobiology
Atlases & gazetteers
Biodiversity conservation
Horticulture
Geobiology
Botany
Bryology
Biological diversity
Classification & nomenclature
Cyanobacteria
Extinction
Evolution
Endangered species
Entomology
Ferns & allies
Fungi
Gymnosperms
Geographical distribution
Ichthyology
History of natural sciences
Linnaean works
Invertebrates
Medical botany
Morphology
Mollusca
Mammalia
Marine biology
Natural history biographies
Natural history dictionaries & encyclopedias
Paleobotany
Ornithology
Paleozoology
Phylogenetic relationships
Plant anatomy
Porifera
Primatology
Pre-Linnaean works
Reproduction
Reptilia
Protozoa
Scientific illustration
Specimen catalogs
Taxonomy
Systematics
Microbial ecology
Zoology
Scientific expeditions
Natural history directories
Natural history bibliographies
Natural history terminology
Oceanography
Physical anthropology
Phenology
Plant conservation
Plant lore
Radioecology
Plant culture
Plate tectonics
Plant ecology
Plant physiology
Stratigraphy
Taxidermy
Restoration ecology
Soil ecology
Virology
Wild animal trade
Vivariums, terrariums, & aquariums
Zoos
Wildlife conservation

BHL Member Library Contributed Titles
Content Selection
Titles Ingested from the Internet Archive

How do you identify the right content in a sea of possibilities?
Examine your own kind
Survey the waters
Cast a
wide net
Evaluate

One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Fail
Validation of ice skating protocol to predict aerobic power in hockey players / by Nicholas J. Petrella.
“50 fish from American waters” by Allen & Ginter (188-)
A measure of meter conservation in music, based on Piaget's theory / by Mary Louise Serafine.
“The Gardeners' chronicle :a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects” (1874)
“Botany” by Brewer, Watson, & Gray 1st & 2nd ed.
Keeping the body in health, by M. V. O'Shea and J. H. Kellogg

Refining our Bait
Removed broad terms, like “Biology” and “Evolution”
Identified useful LCSH terms from the titles ingested in November to add to our criteria
Identified terms associated with content that we wanted to exclude from our collection, e.g. “Gambling” & “Taxation”
Targeted specific MARC fields to match on call numbers; added a match against predetermined set of Dewey call nos.
Matched only against MARC ‘650 |a’s where second indicator equaled 0 (LC) or 3 (NAL)

Conclusion

Thanks!
http://biodiversitylibrary.org
Bianca Crowley
crowleyb@si.edu
Slides: slideshare.net/lipscombb
BioDivLibrary
Biodiversity Heritage Library
Special thanks to Martin Kalfatovic & Suzanne Pilsk, Smithsonian Institution Libraries

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