The Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin R. Kalfatovic. Smithsonian Libraries Board Orientation. Washington, DC. 6 March 02013

1. The Biodiversity Heritage Library
Martin R. Kalfatovic
Smithsonian Libraries
Smithsonian Libraries Board Orientation
6 March 02013 | Washington, DC
UDCMRK@Twitter.com

2. The cultivation of
natural science cannot
be efficiently carried
on without reference
to an extensive library
Charles Darwin, et al
(1847)‫‏‬
The Wherefore of BHL

4. Specimen collections
Databases
Publications
Observations
‘Gray’‫‏‬literature
Index cards
Field notebooks
Taxonomic Impediment

5. Technology Library Science
Biodiversity Heritage Library

7. 15 Member‫‏‬institutions‫…‏‬Formed‫‏‬in‫6002‏‬
15 Members
•Academy of Natural Sciences Library
and Archives
•American Museum of Natural History
Library
•California Academy of Sciences Library
•Cornell University Library
•The Field Museum Library
•Harvard University Botany Libraries
•Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of
Comparative Zoology
•Library of Congress
•Marine Biological Laboratory and Woods
Hole Oceanographic Institution Library
•Missouri Botanical Garden Library
•Natural History Museum, London, Library
& Archives
•The New York Botanical Garden
•Royal Botanic Garden, Kew, Library &
Archives
•Smithsonian Institution Libraries
•United States Geological Survey
Libraries

8. Secretariat and Technical Staff
August 2011Program Director
Program Manager
Collections Coordinator
Technical Director
Programmer
Data Analyst

9. 40,381,261pages
111,715 items
58,495 titles
5 March 201
Content Growth
2007-2013

10. Cornell ingest | Dec 2011
14,45814,458
Items Added: Past 12 Months
Average: 1,204 / month

11. User Statistics: 2007 - 2012
Visitors: 3,628,088
Page Views: 17,604,395
New vs. Returning: 48.88% vs. 50.12%
2007
2012112,584 visitors | March 2012

12. 233 countriesUsers in 233 Countries

13. TheMachineIsUs/ingUs
<Response
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-
instance"
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<Status>ok</Status>
<Result>
<Item>
<ItemID>16800</ItemID>
<Volume/>
<Contributor>MBLWHOI Library</Contributor>
<Sponsor>MBLWHOI Library</Sponsor>
<Language>English</Language>
<LicenseUrl/>
<Rights/>
<DueDiligence/>
<CopyrightStatus/>
<CopyrightRegion/>
</Item>

14. Increase agreements with
publishers of in copyright materials
(up from ~250)

16. In Kind Contributions: CY 2011
SIL Direct Staff Contributio
 4.32 FTE
 $400,000
Other Costs
 $242,948
Funding Received (internal, g
 $537,607
Administration
Metadata
Collections support
Database/Systems
Conservation
Scanning Preparation
Direct Scanning
Quality control

17. BHL Member Participation Staff FTE
29.5 FTE from the 14 member institutions
(does not include Secretariat or Technical staff)

18. Firewall
Images (JP2)
PDF
Coordinate-based OCR
XML metadata
BHL Architecture: Window Seat Ed.
BHL DB
Internet Archive
Storage
Logic
APIs UI
Data
Exports
Access
Data Transform
Utilities
Geocoding
Name
Finding

19. The Biodiversity Heritage Library: 2006

21. Experiment with taxonomic markup
Smithsonian Contributions
and Studies Series
Collaboration with Smithsonian
Institution Scholarly Press
1,000+ titles; 100,000 pages

22. 3.8 million total views | 63,000 images (13 Feb 13)

25. 233 countriesUsers in 233 Countries

26. June 2012
Over 30 librarians,
scientists, informaticians
gathered in Cape Town,
South Africa to start the
formation of the BHL
Africa node; funded by
JRS Foundation

27. Trish Rose-Sandler, Missouri Botanical GardenDLF Forum 2012 Denver CO Art of Life project

28. Facebook
Total Page Likes: 4,384
Twitter @ BioDivLibrary
Total Followers: 2,369
Pinterest
2,373 images & 16 collections
Blog
Total Visits: 9,096
(2Q13)
BHL Social Media
February 2013

29. Outreach

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What an absolutely wonderful site.
It is a treasure trove of information.
Thank you!
May I compliment you on this splendid service? The
Library's invaluable for my work on seasonal
variability of climate and vector-borne disease in
British India, 1875-1940.
I really appreciate your work. The Biodiversity Heritage
Library is an excellent resource that regularly helps my
assistant and I obtain original descriptions for plants .... I
feel so privileged to be working in a day in age when such
resources are so readily available and easy to obtain.

31. Looking Forward
In any well-appointed
Natural History Library
there should be found
every book and every
edition of every book
dealing in the remotest
way with the subjects
concerned.
Charles Davies Sherborn
Epilogue to Index Animalium, March 1922

32. Thanks‫‏…‏‬Questions‫‏‬and‫‏‬Discussion