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Biodiversity Heritage Library in Australia during 2014-2015
BHL Australia, led by Dr. Elycia Wallis, aims to provide a digital literature service, enhance collaboration, and assist institutions with scanning projects as part of the global BHL partnership. Their recent efforts include digitizing field diaries, which encompasses new partnerships with various Australian museums and the involvement of volunteers for transcription. Since October 2014, BHL Australia has uploaded 60 volumes and engaged in promoting new collections through online platforms.
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- 1. BHL Australia Dr ElyciaWallis Manager, Online Collections Museum Victoria Chair, Global BHL Coordinating Committee @elyw
- 4. BHL Australia –2014 and beyond • To provide a digital literature service for the ALA • To undertake new scanning projects • To participate in the global BHL partnership To assist other institutions who want to start scanning or uploading already scanned content To work with ALA staff to continue to innovate with access to digital literature To extend the collaboration in Australia and possibly New Zealand
- 5. New team BHL Australiateam at Museum Victoria: (L-R) Hayley Webster, Ely Wallis, Cerise Howard, Jim Healey, Nicole Kearney
- 6. New equipment New cameras,lights and clamps for the BHL-Au digitisation rig. Photos by Jim Healey
- 7. Google Art ProjectExhibits https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/collection/museum- victoria?projectId=art-project
- 8. http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/collection/bhlau Uploaded to BHLsince Oct 2014 • 60 volumes • 30 titles • 12334 pages Partnerships • Australian Museum • Queensland Museum • South Australian Museum • Western Australian Museum BHL-Au progress report
- 9. BHL-Au conference papers Makingmulti-institution collaborations work – is there a secret sauce? Dr Elycia Wallis, MWA 2014 Scanning Locally, Collaborating Globally Dr Elycia Wallis, VALA 2014 A Different Type of Animal? Advocating for Natural Science Archives Julia Blasé et al (incl. Nicole Kearney) SAA 2015
- 10. http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/collection/artofscience New collections onBHL • BHL Australia • Art of Science Blog posts • BHL-Au is back! (BHL) • Art of Science (MV & BHL) • Transcribing field diaries (MV) BHL-Au online promotion
- 11. Historic field diaries Fullof data • species’ abundance and distribution • field conditions and survey techniques • people, places and events Inaccessible • hand-written • uncatalogued • unpublished • unsearchable
- 12. Transcribing field diaries Digitisation •scanning via BHL rig Transcription • partnership with DigiVol / ALA • custom templates and tutorials • recording of all species, people & place names • transcription volunteers • validation volunteer http://volunteer.ala.org.au/ Graham Brown, Victoria, 1948.
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- 14. Transcribing field diaries Outcomesso far • 8 field diaries digitised and uploaded onto DigiVol • 6 diaries 100% transcribed (1/month) • 5 transcriptions 100% validated • 41 volunteers contributed http://volunteer.ala.org.au/ Allan McEvey, Macquarie Island, 1957.
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Editor's Notes
- #5 We’re very excited that we can look forward to 2014 with renewed vigour with funding from ALA that will allow us to continue to innovate, and create new opportunities for BHL in Australia.
- #16 But for everyone, the importance of the people who are part of the team cannot be overemphasised. Global sharing really does require local collaboration. And I acknowledge the work of the Australian team shown here, as well as the volunteers whose work is much appreciated and extremely valuable. Thanks.