The document summarizes grants and social media activities related to the Biodiversity Heritage Library. It discusses several grants awarded to digitize field notes, link literature and specimens, and enhance access to images. It also describes the library's use of social media platforms like Flickr, Facebook, and Twitter to engage audiences and drive traffic to the website. In 2013, over 1.4 million people visited the website, with over 36,000 visits originating from social media. The library's Flickr account contains over 87,000 images and has received over 24 million views.
A presentation on select international digital library initiatives by Rupesh Kumar A, Assistant Professor, Department of Studies and Research in Library and Information Science, Tumkur University, Karnataka, India.
Digital Commonwealth: Massachusetts History Onlineannperham
Using the Digital Commonwealth to Enhance Teaching.
Presented at the MSLA conference on 3/10/14 by Kim Cochrane (Framingham University) and Debra DeJonker-Berry (Eastham Public Library).
FryskLab - Education, innovation and maker culture in the libraryFers
FryskLab is an initiative of Library Service Friesland (Bibliotheekservice Fryslân, BSF) and the Frisian public library network. Friesland is a rural province in the northern part of the Netherlands and FryskLab, operating from a truck formerly used as a bookmobile, is Europe’s first official library FabLab, or “fabrication laboratory”. Its varied team consists of IT specialists, arts management professionals and librarians, and its goal is to examine the extent to which this mobile FabLab initiative contributes to the development of creative, technical and entrepreneurial skills of children and young adults. The project is ultimately expected to result in an increase of the innovative capacities of the entire province of Friesland.
Officially launched in 2014, FryskLab has so far received a number of awards, including the American Library Association’s (ALA) 2017 Presidential Citations for Innovative International Library Projects award. Making knowledge and sharing the future, the motto of the FryskLab project, reinforces the role of libraries in facilitating access to various “tools of knowledge” (equipment and technology) and providing support in the form of various educational and training programmes, effectively bringing together physical and digital, traditional and modern means of acquiring knowledge.
Keywords: maker movement, makerspaces, digital literacy, education, creativity
Presented at 11th Croatian Conference on Public Libraries: “Public Library Network – Cooperation in the Development of Digital Services and Public Presentation” http://www.nsk.hr/en/11th-croatian-conference-on-public-libraries/
Public libraries in The Netherlands: a powerful networkFers
In this presentation I will briefly present the structure of the public library network in the Netherlands, with particular emphasis on the way public library innovation is “organised”. There is currently a community of practice (CoP) organised for every specific area of library innovation which at the same time also addresses officially established national priorities, i.e. lifelong learning, development of traditional library services, education of the young population, etc. Librarians in each of the CoPs share experiences specific to their field based on which they identify future activities aimed at the development of the particular field. Librarians included in this CoP system come from libraries of all types and sizes regardless of the province or region.
Keywords: innovation, collaboration, Communities of Practice, network
Presented at 11th Croatian Conference on Public Libraries: “Public Library Network – Cooperation in the Development of Digital Services and Public Presentation” http://www.nsk.hr/en/11th-croatian-conference-on-public-libraries/
This was a talk for the St Louis Chapter of Special Libraries Association about library-related projects going on in the Center for Biodiversity Informatics at Missouri Botanical Garden
The Biodiversity Heritage Library: Origin | Growth | PartnershipsMartin Kalfatovic
The Biodiversity Heritage Library: Origin | Growth | Partnerships. Martin R. Kalfatovic. Biodiversity Heritage Library Organization and Planning Meeting. Kirstenbosch, Cape Town, South Africa. 14 June 2012. . Washington, DC. 24 May 2012.
Outreach Strategies to Engage Citizen Scientists: Insights from the Biodivers...costantinog
Presentation delivered at the joint SPNHC.TDWG 2018 conference on Dunedin, NZ regarding outreach strategies used by the Biodiversity Heritage Library to engage citizen scientists with projects.
A presentation on select international digital library initiatives by Rupesh Kumar A, Assistant Professor, Department of Studies and Research in Library and Information Science, Tumkur University, Karnataka, India.
Digital Commonwealth: Massachusetts History Onlineannperham
Using the Digital Commonwealth to Enhance Teaching.
Presented at the MSLA conference on 3/10/14 by Kim Cochrane (Framingham University) and Debra DeJonker-Berry (Eastham Public Library).
FryskLab - Education, innovation and maker culture in the libraryFers
FryskLab is an initiative of Library Service Friesland (Bibliotheekservice Fryslân, BSF) and the Frisian public library network. Friesland is a rural province in the northern part of the Netherlands and FryskLab, operating from a truck formerly used as a bookmobile, is Europe’s first official library FabLab, or “fabrication laboratory”. Its varied team consists of IT specialists, arts management professionals and librarians, and its goal is to examine the extent to which this mobile FabLab initiative contributes to the development of creative, technical and entrepreneurial skills of children and young adults. The project is ultimately expected to result in an increase of the innovative capacities of the entire province of Friesland.
Officially launched in 2014, FryskLab has so far received a number of awards, including the American Library Association’s (ALA) 2017 Presidential Citations for Innovative International Library Projects award. Making knowledge and sharing the future, the motto of the FryskLab project, reinforces the role of libraries in facilitating access to various “tools of knowledge” (equipment and technology) and providing support in the form of various educational and training programmes, effectively bringing together physical and digital, traditional and modern means of acquiring knowledge.
Keywords: maker movement, makerspaces, digital literacy, education, creativity
Presented at 11th Croatian Conference on Public Libraries: “Public Library Network – Cooperation in the Development of Digital Services and Public Presentation” http://www.nsk.hr/en/11th-croatian-conference-on-public-libraries/
Public libraries in The Netherlands: a powerful networkFers
In this presentation I will briefly present the structure of the public library network in the Netherlands, with particular emphasis on the way public library innovation is “organised”. There is currently a community of practice (CoP) organised for every specific area of library innovation which at the same time also addresses officially established national priorities, i.e. lifelong learning, development of traditional library services, education of the young population, etc. Librarians in each of the CoPs share experiences specific to their field based on which they identify future activities aimed at the development of the particular field. Librarians included in this CoP system come from libraries of all types and sizes regardless of the province or region.
Keywords: innovation, collaboration, Communities of Practice, network
Presented at 11th Croatian Conference on Public Libraries: “Public Library Network – Cooperation in the Development of Digital Services and Public Presentation” http://www.nsk.hr/en/11th-croatian-conference-on-public-libraries/
This was a talk for the St Louis Chapter of Special Libraries Association about library-related projects going on in the Center for Biodiversity Informatics at Missouri Botanical Garden
The Biodiversity Heritage Library: Origin | Growth | PartnershipsMartin Kalfatovic
The Biodiversity Heritage Library: Origin | Growth | Partnerships. Martin R. Kalfatovic. Biodiversity Heritage Library Organization and Planning Meeting. Kirstenbosch, Cape Town, South Africa. 14 June 2012. . Washington, DC. 24 May 2012.
Outreach Strategies to Engage Citizen Scientists: Insights from the Biodivers...costantinog
Presentation delivered at the joint SPNHC.TDWG 2018 conference on Dunedin, NZ regarding outreach strategies used by the Biodiversity Heritage Library to engage citizen scientists with projects.
Foundations to Actions: Extending Innovations to Digital Libraries in Partner...Trish Rose-Sandler
This talk was given by Trish Rose-Sandler, Leora Siegel, Katie Mika, Pamela McClanahan, Ariadne Rehbein, Marissa Kings, and Alicia Esquivel at the DPLAFest in Chicago on April 21 2017
Wikipedian-in-Residence at the Metropolitan New York Library Council: Thought...dorohoward
Wikipedian-in-Residence at the Metropolitan New York Library Council: Thoughts on scaling local GLAM initiatives
Dorothy Howard
GLAM-Wiki 2015
The Hague, Nederlands
The Biodiversity Heritage Library. 10+1 and Beyond: Looking ForwardMartin Kalfatovic
The Biodiversity Heritage Library. 10+1 and Beyond: Looking Forward. Martin R. Kalfatovic. BHL Day 2016, Natural History Museum. London, 12 April 2016.
Challenges, Choices, Collaboration
Door: Sheila Anderson (Professor of e-Research
Centre for e-Research
Department of Digital Humanities
King’s College London)
Historical thinking in crowdsourcing and citizen history projectsMia
The TL;DR version: repeated exposure and active attention to primary materials can develop some historical skills; more learning happens through observing and participating in discussion.
Presentation for Creating Historical Knowledge Socially: New Approaches, Opportunities and Epistemological Implications of Undertaking Research with Citizen Scholars
Washington DC, October 2017
Abstract: This 20-minute presentation examines the extent to which crowdsourcing and 'citizen history' projects and discussion platforms enable and encourage the practice of historical thinking. It takes the definitions of historical thinking set out by scholars and institutional bodies and the American Historical Association's 'core competencies' for students in history courses and degree programs as cues for an extensive trace-ethnographic analysis of participant discourse on crowdsourcing and digital community history platforms. This analysis found evidence for the development of historical thinking, situated learning and collective knowledge creation through participation in online communities of practice. Crowdsourcing project forums support many of the behaviours considered typical of communities of practice, including problem solving, requests for information, seeking the experience of past behaviours, coordinating actions, documenting shared knowledge and experiences, and discussing developments. This paper draws on research undertaken for my 2015 PhD, Making digital history: The impact of digitality on public participation and scholarly practices in historical research, in which I explored the ways in which some crowdsourcing projects encourage deeper engagement with history or science, and the role of communities of practice in citizen history.
Biodiversity Heritage Library: An Effective local-global collaboration
Bhl mashupfor australiameeting
1. Biodiversity Heritage Library
Mashup: Grants & Social Media
Biodiversity Heritage Library*
*Thanks to Grace Costantino, Trish-Rose Sandler & William Ulate for sharing their work.
2. Grants
• Connecting Content: A Collaboration to Link Field
Notes & Published Literature
• The Art of Life: Data Mining&Crowdsourcing the
Identification&Description of Natural History
Illustrations from the Biodiversity Heritage Library
• Purposeful Gaming & BHL: engaging the public in
improving & enhancing access to digital texts
• Digging into Data: Mining Biodiversity Project
3. Connecting Content: A Collaboration to Link
Field Notes & Published Literature
• Digitize field notes & specimens (multiple institutions,
completed)
• Expose images on BHL portal
(http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm
=connecting+content#/titles
• Link to specimens (some in-house; GBIF in process)
• Link to published literature (in process)
• Link to user community via
inaturalisthttps://www.inaturalist.org/ (in process)
• California Academy of Sciences leads the grant
http://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2013/05/documenting-scientific-knowledge-one.html
5. The Art of Life
Thanks to Trish-Rose Sandler
• BHL Problem statement–users want access to
images, access to images is limited–How to
broaden the audiences for BHL content?
• Grant from the National Endowment for the
Humanities, USA to the Missouri Botanical
Garden May 2012-April 2014
6. Art of Life Primary Objectives & Status
• Define appropriate metadata schema for natural
history illustrations (http://tinyurl.com/9hm7nsb) VRA
Core with elements from Darwin Core
• Build software tools to automatically identify
illustrations in the BHL corpus: algorithms complete,
running them now
• Enhance existing tools to enable sorting & editing of
identified illustrations (in process)
• Integrate tagging applications so that users can edit
descriptive metadata (in process)
• Integrate user-generated metadata into the BHL portal
8. Purposeful Gaming & BHL
MOBOT leads; start Dec. 2013
• Test new means of crowdsourcing to support the
enhancement of content in BHL
• Test digital games as a tool for improving
OCR/transcription of handwritten & complex text
(example): http://tinyurl.com/kzhvc9y
• Improve access to content
• Extend limited staff resources
• Exposure of content to new potential users
Thanks to Trish-Rose Sandler & William Ulate
9.
10.
11. Digging into Data: Mining Biodiversity
http://tinyurl.com/knzckpm
• International team with multiple funders: Missouri
Botanical Garden is a team member
• Transform BHL into a next-generation social digital
library: efficient access & sharing
• Foster interdisciplinary, collaborative discussion of
legacy literature worldwide through social media
• Raise awareness of biodiversity changes through time
• Integration of text mining, visualization,
crowdsourcing& social media= semantic search for BHL
link content from partner sites to a vibrant user community in a compelling manner, that the delivery for this content would be created under an open source and open access model, and that we hoped to make the application sustainable from a technology standpoint with in a thriving user community. a partnership with iNaturalist which will utilize a mobile phone platform to integrate current user location data with geolocated species occurrence records in GBIF, and connect users to related field observations and published literature in BHL
VRA core designed for artwork
Our current method of addressing image discovery
Multiple institutions: also Harvard, Cornell and NYBG; on shoulders of digital koot http://www.digitalkoot.fi/
With Umanchester Text mining centreSocial media lab Dalhousie Mobot All working on mining biodiversity project.
images are very popular , particularly among artists and others not so interested in the scientific parts of BHL
Robust social media presence:3319 twitter followers7008 facebook followers2568 flickr followersWith orange trendline1,424,773 visits to BHL in 201336,928 visits from social media, ours and others (Down from 42,000+ visits from social media in 2012)Of those, 13,400 visits from BHL’s blog, facebook, and twitter in 2013From Jan to Dec, we saw an 8% decline in total visits to BHL websiteReferals from these three social media platforms (Facebook, blog, and flickr) saw a decline of 14% from Jan to Dec.The decline in visits from social media has a direct correlation to a decline in social media content being generated. At SIL alone, temporarily down two staff members who made contributions to social media efforts. Interestingly,SinaWeibo directed 1,152 visits. SinaWeibo is a chinesemicroblogging platform.Of those, 13,400 visits from BHL’s blog, facebook, and twitter in 2013From Jan to Dec, we saw an 8% decline in total visits to BHL websiteReferals from these three social media platforms (Facebook, blog, and flickr) saw a decline of 14% from Jan to Dec.The decline in visits from social media has a direct correlation to a decline in social media content being generated. At SIL alone, temporarily down two staff members who made contributions to social media efforts. Interestingly,SinaWeibo directed 1,152 visits. SinaWeibo is a chinesemicroblogging platform.
Without trend line1,424,773 visits to BHL in 201336,928 visits from social media, ours and others (Down from 42,000+ visits from social media in 2012)Of those, 13,400 visits from BHL’s blog, facebook, and twitter in 2013From Jan to Dec, we saw an 8% decline in total visits to BHL websiteReferals from these three social media platforms (Facebook, blog, and flickr) saw a decline of 14% from Jan to Dec.The decline in visits from social media has a direct correlation to a decline in social media content being generated. At SIL alone, temporarily down two staff members who made contributions to social media efforts. Interestingly,SinaWeibo directed 1,152 visits. SinaWeibo is a chinesemicroblogging platform.
Blue line – steep drop off in November marks Gilbert’s departure and lack of dedicated staff to Flickr efforts. We start to see some work being done by others, I believe this is Joe and also some at Field. SIL will also be bringing on a volunteer soon.Red line – increase in views despite drop off in new content.Green – decline in visits to website reflects general decline in images added but at a less dramatic rate of decline87641 photosIt is also worth noting that as of Jan 1, there are 3,314 of BHL’s flickr images included in EOL: http://eol.org/collections/53002/