The history of biodiversity through words and pictures
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This talk was given as part of a conference called Curious Images held at the British Library Dec 18 2014 which brought together researchers and artists to share ideas, techniques and methods they have applied to image collections
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- 1. The history of biodiversity through words and pictures Trish Rose-Sandler Data Projects Coordinator Center for Biodiversity Informatics Missouri Botanical Garden, St Louis MO USA
- 2. What is BHL? • A consortium of natural history, botanical libraries and research institutions • An open access digital library for historic biodiversity literature • An open data repository of taxonomic names and bibliographic information Curious Images conference British Library12/18/2014 2
- 3. BHL Central AFFILIATES • Academy of Natural Sciences Library • Chicago Botanical Garden Library • The Field Museum Library • Los Angeles County Natural History Museum Library • National Agricultural Library MEMBERS • American Museum of Natural History Library • California Academy of Sciences Library • Cornell University Library • Harvard University Botany Library • Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology • Library of Congress • Marine Biological Laboratory Library • Missouri Botanical Garden Library • Natural History Museum, London Library • The New York Botanical Garden Library • Royal Botanic Garden, Kew, Library • Smithsonian Libraries • Washington University at St. Louis Library • University of Illinois Library • United States Geological Survey Libraries Curious Images conference British Library12/18/2014 3
- 4. Global Partners Europe China Australia Egypt Brazil Africa Singapore Curious Images conference British Library12/18/2014 4
- 5. Curious Images conference British Library12/18/2014 5 BHL Portal
- 6. 12/18/2014 Curious Images conference British Library 6 BHL Book Viewer
- 7. Curious Images conference British Library12/18/2014 7 BHL Book Viewer
- 8. 12/18/2014 Curious Images conference British Library 8 BHL Book Viewer
- 9. 12/18/2014 Curious Images conference British Library 9 BHL Book Viewer
- 10. Current BHL projects dealing with images • Art of Life • Purposeful Gaming and BHL Curious Images conference British Library12/18/2014 10
- 11. What is Art of Life? • Full title - The Art of Life: Data Mining and Crowdsourcing the Identification and Description of Natural History Illustrations from the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) • Grant given to Missouri Botanical Garden in St Louis. Partners :Indianapolis Museum of Art Lab, University of Colorado, Boulder • Funded by National Endowment for the Humanities • Runs May 2012-April 2015 Curious Images conference British Library12/18/2014 11
- 12. Curious Images conference British Library12/18/2014 12
- 13. Curious Images conference British Library12/18/2014 13 Picture blocks 87% effective Contrast 88% effective Color ineffective Compression ineffective Algorithm Analysis Tool
- 14. 12/18/2014 Curious Images conference British Library 14 Macaw Classifying Tool
- 15. Curious Images conference British Library12/18/2014 15 Crowdsourcing image description Coming Soon…
- 16. What is Purposeful Gaming and BHL? • Full title - Purposeful gaming and BHL: engaging the public in improving and enhancing access to digital texts • National Leadership Grant for Libraries given to Missouri Botanical Garden in St Louis. • Partners include Harvard, Cornell, New York Botanical Garden • Funded by IMLS • Runs Dec 2013-Nov 2015 Curious Images conference British Library12/18/2014 16
- 17. Sample of poor OCR output from an 18th century publication. This page is from Linneaus' Species Plantarum published in 1753 An image of the original text is on the left. The OCR is on the rightthe right Curious Images conference British Library12/18/2014 17
- 18. A sample of poor OCR output from a hand written text. This page is from the Diaries of William Brewster, 1865-1919 Curious Images conference British Library12/18/2014 18
- 19. Curious Images conference British Library12/18/2014 19 Text correction as a game! Similar to the idea of DigitalKoot but with a diversity of texts: books, journals, seed and nursery catalogs, hand-written fieldnotes and diaries
- 20. Curious Images conference British Library12/18/2014 20 This is where we need TILT2
- 21. 12/18/2014 Curious Images conference British Library 21 We enlisted Tiltfactor at Dartmouth as our game designer
- 22. Contact: Trish Rose-Sandler, Principal Investigator trish.rose-sandler@mobot.org Thank you! For more information http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ http://biodivlib.wikispaces.com/Art+of+Life http://biodivlib.wikispaces.com/Purposeful+Gaming Curious Images conference British Library12/18/2014 22
Editor's Notes
- BHL is a VIRTUAL ORGANIZATION BHL Central is formed by 19 organizations in US and UK: Global BHL includes BHL central and the other countries on the slide Membership subscriptions support operational/administration/technical work.