Biodiversity Heritage Library DuraSpace Project. Martin R. Kalfatovic. DuraSpace Webinar. 16 December 2009. Washington, DC.

1. Biodiversity Heritage Library
DuraSpace Project
Martin R. Kalfatovic | Smithsonian Institution Libraries
DuraCloud Webinar | 16 December 2009

2. Missouri Botanical Garden (St.
Louis)
New York Botanical Garden
(New York)
American Museum of Natural Royal Botanic Garden, Kew
History (New York) Botany Libraries, Harvard
Academy of Natural Sciences University
Philadelphia Ernst Mayr Library of the
California Academy of Sciences Museum of Comparative
(San Francisco) Zoology, Harvard University
Field Museum (Chicago) Marine Biological Laboratory /
Woods Hole Oceanographic
Natural History Museum Institution
(London)
Smithsonian Institution Libraries
(Washington)

3. BHL + >100 other libraries with
open access content at archive.org
>>> all BHL storage is handled by the Internet Archive
>>> 38,000+ scanned books
>>> approximately 48 terabytes of data
>>> unable to self-host
BHL Partner Libraries

4. Distributed storage – Archival
Fedora-commons is an open
source repository
Accounts for all changes, so
built-in version control
Provides disaster recover
Open standards to mesh with
future file formats
Provides open sharing services
such as OAI-PMH

5. BHL is participating in the
DuraSpace DuraCloud pilot
DuraSpace would provide a
link to cloud providers
Pilot to show feasibility of
hosting
Testing use of image server,
other services in the cloud

6. Thanks
• Phil Cryer
• Chris Freeland
• Tom Garnett
Martin R. Kalfatovic | Smithsonian Institution Libraries
DuraCloud Webinar | 16 December 2009