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Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries 2016 Presentation
The document outlines the goals and operations of the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) initiative, focusing on enhancing online access to biodiversity literature through digitization and content contributions from various partners. It details the selection criteria for acceptable materials, digitization standards, and metadata requirements, while emphasizing the importance of curation in maintaining a high-quality collection. Additionally, it highlights training, social media outreach, and provides contact information for those interested in participating in the project.
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- 1. EABL Expanding Access to BiodiversityLiterature Mariah Lewis & Patrick Randall May 26, 2016 | CBHL
- 2. Who are we? MariahLewis • Metadata Specialist • New York Botanical Garden Patrick Randall • Community Manager • Ernst Mayr Library, Museum of Comparative Zoology Harvard University
- 3. "I think BHLis one of the most important and useful resources online right now. Judging by how often I use it, I’d say it has an impact on my research commensurate with that of Google Scholar or Web of Science.” Andrew D., Herpetologist
- 4. EABL Purpose: Increase accessto biodiversity material online by making BHL an on- ramp for content providers who want to contribute to DPLA
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- 10. Selection Requirements • OpenAccess • MARCXML • High image quality
- 11. Selection Requirements • Withinscope • Valid item type • Not a duplicate DUPLICATE S
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- 13. Accepted Material Types 1.Digitized books 2. “Book-like items” such as - Field notebooks - Correspondence 3. Digitized volumes/issues of a journal 4. Articles 5. Born digital material Digitization for BHL means…
- 14. BHL does NOTAccept • Maps • Artworks* • Specimen images • “Frankenbooks” - Digital copies should be true to the original - Do NOT cut/paste pages from various physical copies to create a digital version * Under consideration for the future
- 15. Deduplication Comparing the materialsidentified from the Selection process with the existing collection as well as checking against in progress items being digitized. Is it already available in the collection? Is the digitization of this item already in progress? Q Q Search BHL website. Search BHL Issue Tracker (“Gemini”).A A
- 16. Choosing Material ✓ Digitizeunique items that increase the breadth and depth of the BHL Ask yourself and your BHL colleagues: Does this item bring unique value to the BHL collection? Would adding this item to BHL improve the quality of the collection for users?
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- 19. Copyright & Permissions CopyrightRenewal Database (Stanford) DUE DILIGENCE Catalog of Copyright Entries (UPenn) U.S. Copyright Office
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- 23. Digital Imaging Standards •Accepted image types – TIFFs – JPEG2000s – High quality PDF files •Maximum size of 256MB per file •Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative
- 24. PDF Requirements • Highquality PDFS • 300 ppi or higher • Macaw separates each page within a PDF into an individual image file • Compression will happen • Born Digital Items
- 25. Scanning Options • In-houseScanning • Internet Archive (IA) Scanning • Other Scanning Facility Scanning
- 26. In-house scanning • YourPreferred Digitization Hardware – You enter the item and page level metadata via BHL’s homegrown software •Internet Archive Scribe – https://archive.org/details/tabletopscribesystem – Can be pricey to buy hardware
- 27. IA Scanning Process •Scanning Process Video – https://archive.org/details/InternetArchive-Tour • Foot pedal • Non-destructive, cushioned glass platen with shock absorption • LED lighting • All images shot in color • Structural metadata added during scanning
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- 30. Other Scanning Facility •Use Macaw if not already in the Internet Archive • Auto-Ingest from Internet Archive – MARCXML – Keywords • BHL/Expanding Access Collection in Internet Archive
- 31. “BHL is anawesomely useful resource! It’s very helpful to have the BHL when I’m traveling away from ‘home base.’ No need to carry around a rare 120 year old book if you can just open a scanned file of it on your computer.” Dr. Christopher M., Invertebrate Zoologist
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- 36. Macaw • What isMacaw? – Software platform to help partners send images and metadata into Internet Archive for harvest into BHL. – Works best in Chrome browser. – Steps: 1. Preparation for Macaw 2. Create Item Metadata 3. Upload Item Images 4. Enter Page Metadata 5. Review for Quality Control 6. Export to Internet Archive
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- 42. Item vs. PageMetadata
- 43. Item vs. PageMetadata •Minimum page level metadata usually assigned by digitization vendor •Fields captured: –page_prefix –page_number –page_number_implicit –page_type –page_side –year –volume (if applicable) –piece (if applicable)
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- 45. Curation- Editing Items Performingcataloging and metadata corrections, identifying and correcting poor quality image scans or missing pages, identifying gaps in collection holdings, and other tasks that improve the overall quality and discoverability of the collection. Via the “Admin Dash”
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- 51. Social Media >30,000Across oursocial media channels, we have a combined following of people >2.4 MillionOn average, each month on social media we reach people >3.5 MillionOn average, each month our content on social media is seen times
- 52. Social Media All outreachcontent includes links back to BHL resources. 30,000+Unique Visitors to BHL from social media August 2014-August 2015 Top Referrers: 19,900+ Visitors to BHL August 2014-2015 7,400+ Visitors to BHL August 2014-2015 10,400+ Visitors to BHL August 2014-2015 (61% of these were new users that had never visited BHL before!)
- 53. Training • Digitization • Metadatacreation • Metadata reformatting • Uploading to BHL • Content curation
- 54. Membership Members ● American Museumof Natural History ● BHL Australia ● CONABIO ● Cornell University Library ● Field Museum of Natural History ● Harvard University Botany Libraries ● Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University ● Library of Congress ● New York Botanical Garden ● Missouri Botanical Garden ● National Library Board, Singapore ● Natural History Museum, London ● Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew ● Smithsonian Libraries Affiliates ● Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University ● BHL Africa ● California Academy of Sciences ● Chicago Botanic Garden ● Internet Archive ● Marine Biological Laboratory / Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution ● Natural History Museum, LA County ● Naturalis Biodiversity Center ● Smithsonian Institution Archives ● U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agriculture Library ● Washington University Libraries
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- 56. Contact Us Patrick Randall,Community Manager patrickrandall@fas.harvard.edu or Susan Fraser, Principal Investigator sfraser@nybg.org
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