The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is a global consortium aimed at providing open access to historic biodiversity literature, featuring over 45,000 journals and 87,000 volumes, with significant usage statistics indicating its impact. New features such as a user-friendly interface, tools for scholarly crowd-sourcing, and enhancements in data storage and analytics via clusters are being developed. Future initiatives include assigning digital object identifiers (DOIs) to publications, ensuring sustainability, and expanding outreach through social media.

1. Phil Cryer Biodiversity Heritage Library Scripting Life : the science behind ViBRANT January 20-21, 2011 - Paris, France Biodiversity Heritage Library: Process & Progress

2. a consortium of global partners aims to share historic biodiversity literature texts provides open access of all content free for all Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL)

3. bhl data stats

4. Content 45,000 journals & monographs 8,821 in 2010 87,000 volumes 15,552 in 2010 32 million pages 5.6 million in 2010

5. Usage (2010) 837,000 visits 422,000 unique visitors 4.2 millions page views 221 countries/territories

6. new features

7. scanning request form click on ‘Feedback’ to access click on ‘Feedback’ to access click on ‘Feedback’ to access

8. new user interface for names index sortable columns, exportable via CSV, BibTeX and Endnote

9. downloadable article PDFs create articles from BHL books create articles from BHL books create articles from BHL books

10. downloadable article PDFs 1- enter metadata about the article 1- enter metadata about the article 1- enter metadata about the article

11. downloadable article PDFs 2- select the pages of the article 2- select the pages of the article 2- select the pages of the article

12. downloadable article PDFs 3- PDF request received 3- PDF request received 3- PDF request received

13. downloadable article PDFs 4- PDF article arrives via email 4- PDF article arrives via email 4- PDF article arrives via email

14. CiteBank ( http://citebank.org ) open access repository for biodiversity publications open access repository for biodiversity publications open access repository for biodiversity publications

15. CiteBank ( http://citebank.org ) Solr search with faceting Solr search with faceting Solr search with faceting

16. CiteBank ( http://citebank.org ) individual bibliography page individual bibliography page individual bibliography page

17. CiteBank features access the ‘crowd-sourced’ articles generated from the BHL scans (harvested from BHL) platform for journals/publishers/societies in need of tools to store and share content harvests metadata from Zookeys , SCiELO, Smithsonian collections nightly via OAI-PMH new search index to BHL content using Solr

18. CiteBank + BHL expands our core features content and tools for scholarly crowd-sourcing Users can get content they need, do minor work, share enhancements with community look to add more content integration with other existing platforms EOL, Atlas of Living Australia, JSTOR Plant Science, BioStor and others Mendeley , Zotero, RefWorks, etc

19. enhancements to the portal home page More focus on search special collections Charles Darwin’s scientific library scholarly annotations annotations in Darwin’s hand and academic interpretation, crosslinking More BHL features coming soon... More BHL features coming soon...

20. bhl global

24. Benefits of Global BHL partnerships redundancy and resilience data and app Mirroring exposing unique content new tools, services, people opportunities for new collaborations IMPACT, ViBRANT , OpenUp! in EU

25. storage clusters

26. all BHL data stored at the Internet Archive in San Francisco no redundancy limited in how we could serve our data and images difficult to analyze data First global BHL cluster gives us redundancy and failover many new serving options new ways to run analytics, data mining Storage issues solved using clusters Storage issues solved using clusters

28. open source software Linux operating system Gluster distributed storage system commodity hardware Supermicro servers ‘ off the shelf ’ hard drives and other system components Open source software / commodity hardware Open source software / commodity hardware

29. BHL Cluster 01 six 4U sized cabinets twenty-four 1.5TB hard drives in each cabinet 97TB of replicated and distributed storage (over 200TB of raw disk) BHL Cluster 01

31. find relationships R GNU statistical language Hadoop, Disco make existing data more useful image and OCR reprocessing, taxonfinder Statistical computing

32. data sharing

33. replicating BHL data globally Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, US ) National History Museum (London, UK ) Bibliotheca Alexandrina (Alexandrina, EG ) Atlas of Living Australia (Canberra, AU ) China... Brazil... advantages to replication redundancy , failover load balancing geographical distribution Data sharing and replication Data sharing and replication

34. grabby handles initial download from Internet Archive (IA) bhl-sync open source Dropbox model handles syncing remote nodes automatically uses inotify, lsyncd, OpenSSH, rsync, unison remote server only requires a secure login Open source code available at http://bit.ly/bhl-bits Software for data sync Software for data sync

35. digital repository platform enables storage and management of digital content maintains a persistent digital archive stores data in a neutral manner provides backup , redundancy, disaster recovery shares data to remote nodes via OAI-PMH Fedora-commons integration Fedora-commons integration

36. future plans

37. BHL is a member of CrossRef through The Smithsonian will start assigning DOIs to BHL monographs easy, non-controversial provides open access of all content then move on to articles and other publication types CrossRef rules make full assignment challenging for crowd-sourced articles Assigning DOIs (Digital Object Identifier) Assigning DOIs (Digital Object Identifier)

38. OCR Correction a big problem , no easy solution add more content partnerships, CiteBank sustainability planning and funding committed to no fees for users more outreach conferences, marketing Facebook, Twitter and other social media avenues... Wish list for 2011 and beyond Wish list for 2011 and beyond

39. http://biodiversitylibrary.blogspot.com http://twitter.com/BioDivLibrary #bhlib http://facebook.com/pages/Biodiversity-Heritage-Library/63547246565 http://flickr.com/groups/bhl http://youtube.com/user/BioHeritageLibrary http://biodiversitylibrary.org/RecentRss.aspx http://slidesha.re/bhl-slides BHL is social! BHL is social!

40. slides : slidesha.re/bhl-slides contact : [email_address] Thanks. Phil Cryer : Biodiversity Heritage Library Scripting Life : the science behind ViBRANT January 20-21, 2011 - Paris, France