Global BHL Progress
Content Providers & Technical Review
Brussels, Belgium
30 Nov 2011

New Logo!

https://bhl.wikispaces.com/Second-Global-BHL-Planning-Meeting
Global BHL Meeting
• Agreed: meeting in 2012 w/ admin & tech
Governance policy v.1
The goals of the gBHL are:
• Digitize and aggregate as much biodiversity literature as funding and copyright law allows through
the member programs and projects.
• Maintain repositories for the indexing, storage, preservation and serving of this digital content.
• Develop services to make this digital content widely and easily available.
The principles of the gBHL are:
• Open access. The digital content served by gBHL members is available without cost and can be
reused by other projects and users with appropriate attribution.
• Collaboration. Each gBHL member will actively coordinate its activities with other BHL partners to
achieve agreed objectives.
• Decentralization. Each gBHL member is self-governing and funded.
• Interoperability. Each gBHL member will deploy technologies enabling sharing of digital content
and services with other gBHL members.
• Transparency. The processes of the gBHL will be transparent and clear to all members and the
public.
• Legality. The gBHL members will operate within their legal frameworks.

Life & Literature
14 – 15 Nov, 2011
Chicago, IL USA
http://www.lifeandliterature.org

#LifeLitTweets

Breakout Sessions Common Themes
Expand Innovate
•Art / Illustrations •Mobile
•Contextualization (BLE) •OCR Correction
•Articles •User engagement with annotations
•Localization of serving •Gaming
•Common name searching •More APIs
•Computable data
Maintain Avoid
•More content •Closed access
•Engage users, get feedback •Charging for content
•Growing too big, too fast
•Losing brand, value

JRS Biodiversity Foundation
Sub-Saharan Africa Meeting

BHL-Africa
• Enthusiasm to cooperate & collaborate
• First time some had met each other in person
– “I particularly enjoyed how the organisations& logos became
people, with interests & expertise, working together.”
• Next steps:
– BHL wiki for communication
– Share contact information including Skype
– Mendeley group, inviting other librarians & BI professionals
• Prioritization of titles to scan
– F2F at SANBIF in Jan/Feb 2012
– Find ways for BHL to integrate into BI platforms & library
catalogues in Africa
• BiCYCL
• BRAHMS
• KE
• Specify

BHL-China
“More problems, more solutions, more integrations, more
powerful, more global, more localization.” Dr. Xu, IB-CAS

BHL-China
• Shared content
• 890 volumes into BHL (& thus BHL-Europe), more on the way
http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36482330

BHL-Australia & -US Collaboration
• BHL-Australia scanning in-country
• UI harmonization following usability
study
– Report:
https://bhl.wikispaces.com/2011+Usability+Tes
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• Refine searching
• Page-level annotations
• Article-level rekey / Tables of Contents
– With data sharing from Rod Page

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