Presentation from the evening reception at the 2018 Annual Meeting in Los Angeles. Presentation shared user stories highlighting how BHL is supporting research in global science, conservation, and museum work.
BHL and Specimen Collection Data: The needle in the Festuca stackMartin Kalfatovic
BHL and Specimen Collection Data: The needle in the Festuca stack
Biodiversity_Next | 23 October 2019 | Leiden
Martin R. Kalfatovic. BHL Program Director | Biodiversity Heritage Library. ORCID: 0000-0002-4563-4627. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.3.37787
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.
An Introduction to the Biodiversity Heritage LibraryMartin Kalfatovic
An Introduction to the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin R. Kalfatovic. BHL Australian Node Meeting: National Library of Australia. 4 June 2010. Canberra, Australia.
Enabling Progress in Global Biodiversity Research: The Biodiversity Heritage ...Martin Kalfatovic
This document summarizes a presentation about the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL). It discusses how BHL provides open access to over 49 million pages of biodiversity literature. It highlights BHL's global usage, with top cities including London, Paris, New York. It also summarizes partnerships with organizations like Encyclopedia of Life and projects like expanding access to literature and digitizing field notes. The presentation concludes that BHL has been successfully collaborative by focusing on taxonomy and providing services to researchers.
Increasing Access, Promoting Progress: Empowering Global Research through the...Martin Kalfatovic
Increasing Access, Promoting Progress: Empowering Global Research through the BHL. Martin R. Kalfatovic. Group of 12 Meeting. Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle. Paris, 2 December 2016.
The Biodiversity Heritage Library 10 Years and More!Martin Kalfatovic
The Biodiversity Heritage Library 10 Years and More! Martin R. Kalfatovic. TDWG 2016. Centro de Transferencia Tecnológica y Educación Continua (CTEC) San Carlos, Santa Clara, Costa Rica. 7 December 2016.
BHL and Specimen Collection Data: The needle in the Festuca stackMartin Kalfatovic
BHL and Specimen Collection Data: The needle in the Festuca stack
Biodiversity_Next | 23 October 2019 | Leiden
Martin R. Kalfatovic. BHL Program Director | Biodiversity Heritage Library. ORCID: 0000-0002-4563-4627. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.3.37787
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.
An Introduction to the Biodiversity Heritage LibraryMartin Kalfatovic
An Introduction to the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin R. Kalfatovic. BHL Australian Node Meeting: National Library of Australia. 4 June 2010. Canberra, Australia.
Enabling Progress in Global Biodiversity Research: The Biodiversity Heritage ...Martin Kalfatovic
This document summarizes a presentation about the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL). It discusses how BHL provides open access to over 49 million pages of biodiversity literature. It highlights BHL's global usage, with top cities including London, Paris, New York. It also summarizes partnerships with organizations like Encyclopedia of Life and projects like expanding access to literature and digitizing field notes. The presentation concludes that BHL has been successfully collaborative by focusing on taxonomy and providing services to researchers.
Increasing Access, Promoting Progress: Empowering Global Research through the...Martin Kalfatovic
Increasing Access, Promoting Progress: Empowering Global Research through the BHL. Martin R. Kalfatovic. Group of 12 Meeting. Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle. Paris, 2 December 2016.
The Biodiversity Heritage Library 10 Years and More!Martin Kalfatovic
The Biodiversity Heritage Library 10 Years and More! Martin R. Kalfatovic. TDWG 2016. Centro de Transferencia Tecnológica y Educación Continua (CTEC) San Carlos, Santa Clara, Costa Rica. 7 December 2016.
Increasing Access, Promoting Progress: Empowering Global Research through the...Martin Kalfatovic
Increasing Access, Promoting Progress: Empowering Global Research through the BHL. Martin R. Kalfatovic. Expanding Access to Biodiversity Workshop. Atlanta History Center. Atlanta, GA. 24 January 2017.
An International Cooperative Digital Library for Taxonomic Literature: The Bi...Martin Kalfatovic
An International Cooperative Digital Library for Taxonomic Literature: The Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin Kalfatovic. The Catholic University of America, School of Library and Information Science. LSC 715. 6 June 2008. Washington, DC.
Digital Services Division & The Biodiversity Heritage LibraryMartin Kalfatovic
Digital Services Division & The Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin R. Kalfatovic. Smithsonian Science Executive Committee. Washington, DC. 12 January 2015
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is a project to digitize the published literature of biodiversity. It aims to provide open access to over 5.4 million books and publications dating back to 1469. The BHL involves many museum, botanical garden, and research institution libraries collaborating to scan materials. It uses taxonomic intelligence to link names in the literature to databases. The long-term goal is a sustainable platform to make biodiversity literature freely available online.
An Inordinate Fondness for Data: The Biodiversity Heritage LibraryMartin Kalfatovic
An Inordinate Fondness for Data: The Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin R. Kalfatovic. OCLC Digital Forum East 2009. November 5, 2009. Arlington, VA.
Digitizing Entomology: The Biodiversity Heritage Library @ the SmithsonianMartin Kalfatovic
Digitizing Entomology: The Biodiversity Heritage Library @ the Smithsonian. Martin R. Kalfatovic. National Museum of Natural History, Department of Entomology Staff Meeting. Martin R. Kalfatovic. November 26, 2007. Washington, DC.
The document discusses the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), an open access digital library focused on taxonomic literature from the 18th century onward. It notes that taxonomic literature has a longer half-life of citation than other scientific disciplines. The BHL aims to digitize over 1.4-1.6 million publications, totaling 280-320 million pages, from its partner institutions to make this literature more accessible online. It has already digitized around 400,000 pre-1923 publications totaling 80 million pages.
The Smithsonian Institution Libraries received $200,000 in funding for the Biodiversity Heritage Library in 2007. A task force was formed to oversee Biodiversity Heritage Library activities. Scanning of materials began using the Scribe scanner, with over 12,000 pages scanned from 38 volumes by September 2007. Meetings were held with various organizations to discuss the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Presentations on the library were also given at several institutions and conferences.
The document summarizes the current status and future plans of the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) as of May 2011. It notes that BHL has the largest collection of digitized biodiversity literature in the world, with over 34.5 million pages from 91,600 volumes. It discusses BHL's efforts to obtain copyright permissions to digitize and host additional content, as well as its partnerships around the world and commitment to digital preservation.
Open Access to Legacy Biodiversity Literaturetgarnett
The document discusses the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) project which aims to digitize published literature on biodiversity from the collections of major natural history libraries and make it openly accessible online. It provides an overview of the participating libraries and institutions, as well as the technical infrastructure and processes for digitization, metadata creation, and integration with other biodiversity informatics resources.
The Biodiversity Heritage Library: Empowering Discovery through Free Access to Biodiversity Knowledge | Martin R. Kalfatovic, XIX IBC 2017. Shenzhen, China. 25 July 2017
Biodiversity Heritage Library: Cornerstone of the Encyclopedia of LifeMartin Kalfatovic
The document discusses the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), an organization that aims to digitize literature related to biodiversity and make it openly accessible online. It provides details on BHL's structure, partners, efforts to digitize over 1.4 million pages of literature through mass scanning facilities, and development of tools to extract taxonomic and other scientific information from the literature. BHL's goal is to narrow the digital divide by providing access to biodiversity literature from over 250 years that is currently difficult to access.
The Biodiversity Heritage Library: A Cornerstone of the Encyclopedia of LifeMartin Kalfatovic
Presentation at the Biodiversity Heritage Library @ Smithsonian Libraries event during ALA (June 25, 2007) held at the National Museum of Natural History
Free and Open Access to Biodiversity Literature: An Introduction to the Biodi...Martin Kalfatovic
Free and Open Access to Biodiversity Literature: An Introduction to the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin R. Kalfatovic. Library of Congress. 1 June 2017.
The Biodiversity Heritage Library: Workflow OverviewMartin Kalfatovic
The Biodiversity Heritage Library: Workflow Overview. Martin R. Kalfatovic and Suzanne C. Pilsk. BHL Australian Node Meeting: Melbourne Museum. 2 June 2010. Melbourne, Australia.
Free & Open Access to Biodiversity Literature: An Introduction to the Biodive...Martin Kalfatovic
Free & Open Access to Biodiversity Literature: An Introduction to the Biodiversity Heritage Library. NDSR Workshop. Smithsonian Libraries. 2 February 2017.
“Yet Another BHL Presentation”: The Biodiversity Heritage LibraryMartin Kalfatovic
“Yet Another BHL Presentation”: The Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin R. Kalfatovic. Internet Archive Leaders' Forum. October 19, 2009. San Francisco, CA.
An Introduction to the Biodiversity Heritage Library for the DC Science Libra...costantinog
This document introduces the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), an open access digital library containing over 50 million pages of literature from biodiversity. It provides free access to publications such as original species descriptions, distribution records, and scientific illustrations. The BHL is a global consortium of 16 members and affiliates that works to overcome barriers to research by digitizing literature and making it publicly available online. It summarizes the BHL's activities, digital collections, services, and projects to expand access to biodiversity literature and archives.
Increasing Access, Promoting Progress: Empowering Global Research through the...Martin Kalfatovic
Increasing Access, Promoting Progress: Empowering Global Research through the BHL. Martin R. Kalfatovic. Expanding Access to Biodiversity Workshop. Atlanta History Center. Atlanta, GA. 24 January 2017.
An International Cooperative Digital Library for Taxonomic Literature: The Bi...Martin Kalfatovic
An International Cooperative Digital Library for Taxonomic Literature: The Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin Kalfatovic. The Catholic University of America, School of Library and Information Science. LSC 715. 6 June 2008. Washington, DC.
Digital Services Division & The Biodiversity Heritage LibraryMartin Kalfatovic
Digital Services Division & The Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin R. Kalfatovic. Smithsonian Science Executive Committee. Washington, DC. 12 January 2015
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is a project to digitize the published literature of biodiversity. It aims to provide open access to over 5.4 million books and publications dating back to 1469. The BHL involves many museum, botanical garden, and research institution libraries collaborating to scan materials. It uses taxonomic intelligence to link names in the literature to databases. The long-term goal is a sustainable platform to make biodiversity literature freely available online.
An Inordinate Fondness for Data: The Biodiversity Heritage LibraryMartin Kalfatovic
An Inordinate Fondness for Data: The Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin R. Kalfatovic. OCLC Digital Forum East 2009. November 5, 2009. Arlington, VA.
Digitizing Entomology: The Biodiversity Heritage Library @ the SmithsonianMartin Kalfatovic
Digitizing Entomology: The Biodiversity Heritage Library @ the Smithsonian. Martin R. Kalfatovic. National Museum of Natural History, Department of Entomology Staff Meeting. Martin R. Kalfatovic. November 26, 2007. Washington, DC.
The document discusses the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), an open access digital library focused on taxonomic literature from the 18th century onward. It notes that taxonomic literature has a longer half-life of citation than other scientific disciplines. The BHL aims to digitize over 1.4-1.6 million publications, totaling 280-320 million pages, from its partner institutions to make this literature more accessible online. It has already digitized around 400,000 pre-1923 publications totaling 80 million pages.
The Smithsonian Institution Libraries received $200,000 in funding for the Biodiversity Heritage Library in 2007. A task force was formed to oversee Biodiversity Heritage Library activities. Scanning of materials began using the Scribe scanner, with over 12,000 pages scanned from 38 volumes by September 2007. Meetings were held with various organizations to discuss the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Presentations on the library were also given at several institutions and conferences.
The document summarizes the current status and future plans of the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) as of May 2011. It notes that BHL has the largest collection of digitized biodiversity literature in the world, with over 34.5 million pages from 91,600 volumes. It discusses BHL's efforts to obtain copyright permissions to digitize and host additional content, as well as its partnerships around the world and commitment to digital preservation.
Open Access to Legacy Biodiversity Literaturetgarnett
The document discusses the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) project which aims to digitize published literature on biodiversity from the collections of major natural history libraries and make it openly accessible online. It provides an overview of the participating libraries and institutions, as well as the technical infrastructure and processes for digitization, metadata creation, and integration with other biodiversity informatics resources.
The Biodiversity Heritage Library: Empowering Discovery through Free Access to Biodiversity Knowledge | Martin R. Kalfatovic, XIX IBC 2017. Shenzhen, China. 25 July 2017
Biodiversity Heritage Library: Cornerstone of the Encyclopedia of LifeMartin Kalfatovic
The document discusses the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), an organization that aims to digitize literature related to biodiversity and make it openly accessible online. It provides details on BHL's structure, partners, efforts to digitize over 1.4 million pages of literature through mass scanning facilities, and development of tools to extract taxonomic and other scientific information from the literature. BHL's goal is to narrow the digital divide by providing access to biodiversity literature from over 250 years that is currently difficult to access.
The Biodiversity Heritage Library: A Cornerstone of the Encyclopedia of LifeMartin Kalfatovic
Presentation at the Biodiversity Heritage Library @ Smithsonian Libraries event during ALA (June 25, 2007) held at the National Museum of Natural History
Free and Open Access to Biodiversity Literature: An Introduction to the Biodi...Martin Kalfatovic
Free and Open Access to Biodiversity Literature: An Introduction to the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin R. Kalfatovic. Library of Congress. 1 June 2017.
The Biodiversity Heritage Library: Workflow OverviewMartin Kalfatovic
The Biodiversity Heritage Library: Workflow Overview. Martin R. Kalfatovic and Suzanne C. Pilsk. BHL Australian Node Meeting: Melbourne Museum. 2 June 2010. Melbourne, Australia.
Free & Open Access to Biodiversity Literature: An Introduction to the Biodive...Martin Kalfatovic
Free & Open Access to Biodiversity Literature: An Introduction to the Biodiversity Heritage Library. NDSR Workshop. Smithsonian Libraries. 2 February 2017.
“Yet Another BHL Presentation”: The Biodiversity Heritage LibraryMartin Kalfatovic
“Yet Another BHL Presentation”: The Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin R. Kalfatovic. Internet Archive Leaders' Forum. October 19, 2009. San Francisco, CA.
An Introduction to the Biodiversity Heritage Library for the DC Science Libra...costantinog
This document introduces the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), an open access digital library containing over 50 million pages of literature from biodiversity. It provides free access to publications such as original species descriptions, distribution records, and scientific illustrations. The BHL is a global consortium of 16 members and affiliates that works to overcome barriers to research by digitizing literature and making it publicly available online. It summarizes the BHL's activities, digital collections, services, and projects to expand access to biodiversity literature and archives.
3 Years On: The Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin R. Kalfatovic. BHL Australia Kick Off Meeting: Melbourne Museum. 1 June 2010. Melbourne, Australia.
The Biodiversity Heritage Library Empowering Discovery through Free Access to...Martin Kalfatovic
The Biodiversity Heritage Library Empowering Discovery through Free Access to Biodiversity Knowledge. Martin R. Kalfatovic. XXI Congress of the Association for the Taxonomic Study of the Flora of Tropical Africa (AETFAT). Nairobi, Kenya. 18 May 2017.
The Biodiversity Heritage Library Mass Digitizing Project: A Grandeur in this...Martin Kalfatovic
The Biodiversity Heritage Library Mass Digitizing Project: A Grandeur in this View of Digital Libraries by Martin R. Kalfatovic and Suzanne C. Pilsk, Smithsonian Institution Libraries. LITA National Forum, October 2007. Denver, Colorado.
Overview of the Biodiversity Heritage Library: Recent ActivitiesMartin Kalfatovic
Overview of the Biodiversity Heritage Library: Recent Activities. Martin R. Kalfatovic. Inaugural Digital Data in Biodiversity Research Conference. Digital Data and the North American Nodes of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Co-sponsored by the University of Michigan and iDigBio. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. 5 June 2017.
An International Cooperative Digital Library for Taxonomic Literature: The Bi...Martin Kalfatovic
An International Cooperative Digital Library for Taxonomic Literature: The Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin R. Kalfatovic. American Library Association Annual Meeting. Collaborative Digital Initiatives: Show and Tell and Lessons Learned. June 30, 2008. Anaheim, CA.
How Did We Get Here from There? The Origin Story of The Biodiversity Heritage...Martin Kalfatovic
How Did We Get Here from There? The Origin Story of The Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin R. Kalfatovic. 2017 Library Leaders Forum. Internet Archive. San Francisco. 13 October 2017.
The Encyclopedia of Life, Biodiversity Heritage Library, Biodiversity Informa...drielinger
The document discusses the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) project, which aims to create a web page for every known species. It provides details on the project's goals and structure, as well as its partnerships with other biodiversity organizations. These include the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), which will digitize literature to support the EOL by providing the scientific underpinning. The BHL is forming collaborations internationally to make biodiversity literature openly accessible online.
Smithsonian Libraries 2.0 and the Biodiversity Heritage Library ProjectMartin Kalfatovic
The document summarizes the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) project, which aims to digitize literature related to biodiversity and make it openly accessible online. It discusses the taxonomic impediment caused by limited access to literature. The BHL partnership involves major natural history libraries working to scan literature and make it searchable through a central portal. The Smithsonian Institution Libraries plays a key role in the project through hosting staff, providing materials to scan, and assisting with technical development.
Free & Open Access to Biodiversity Literature: An Introduction to the Biodive...Martin Kalfatovic
This document provides an introduction and overview of the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), a global consortium that provides free and open access to digitized biodiversity literature. The summary is:
The Biodiversity Heritage Library is a global consortium that provides free online access to over 52 million digitized pages of biodiversity literature. It has members from research institutions around the world and aims to make biodiversity literature openly accessible to support research. The document outlines BHL's history, collections, partnerships, and future plans to expand open access to biodiversity knowledge on a global scale.
Revealing and Contextualizing the treasures of the Biodiversity Heritage Libr...Trish Rose-Sandler
This talk focused on two projects being carried out by the Missouri Botanical Garden related to the Biodiversity Heritage Library - Art of Life and Engelmann Correspondence. The Art of Life, funded by NEH, is a project to identify and describe the rich natural history illustrations hidden within the pages of BHL literature. The Engelmann Correspondence project, funded by IMLS, is a project to digitize and make available in BHL letters sent to 19th century botanist, George Engelmann by his colleagues in the US and Europe. Both projects are providing new content types to the BHL portal http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/, helping contextualize its published literature, and expanding BHL audiences.
Biodiversity Heritage Library : Development and PartnerhipsNancy Gwinn
Biodiversity Heritage Library. Development and Partnerships. Nancy E. Gwinn. Biodiversity and Ecosystems Informatics Group, National Science Foundation, March 24, 2008, Washington, D.C.
Fishing for the Right Content in a Sea of Free E-booksBianca Crowley
The document discusses how the Biodiversity Heritage Library identifies relevant content from the large number of free e-books available. It explains that BHL refines its search criteria by removing broad topics, identifying useful subject headings from previously ingested titles, and targeting specific bibliographic fields and call numbers. This allows BHL to cast a wide net initially but then evaluate results to select content most aligned with its focus on biodiversity and natural history.
This document summarizes 11 papers describing the early hominid species Ardipithecus ramidus from 4.4 million years ago. The papers present findings on the anatomy, environment, and implications for human evolution based on fossils of over 36 individuals. Key findings include:
1) Ardipithecus had adaptations for both climbing in trees and upright walking on land, showing it was comfortable in both habitats.
2) Analysis of the surrounding geology, fossils of plants and animals, and invertebrates indicates Ardipithecus lived in a woodland environment, not grasslands.
3) When considered together, the papers provide a new view of our last common ancestor with chimpan
The Biodiversity Heritage Library: Collaborating Globally, Scanning LocallyMartin Kalfatovic
The Biodiversity Heritage Library: Collaborating Globally, Scanning Locally. Librarians as Digital Leaders: Collaborating on the Development and Use of Digitized Collections. American Library Association Annual Conference. Las Vegas, NV. 28 June 2014.
This document discusses the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) project and its role in supporting other biodiversity initiatives like the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL). The BHL aims to digitize published literature on biodiversity and make it openly accessible online. It has already digitized over 4 million pages and works closely with groups like EOL to integrate taxonomic data. The document outlines the BHL's goals, partnerships, digitization process, and how it brings together distributed information on species through its use of taxonomic intelligence.
Botanical Literature Goes Global: The Biodiversity Heritage Library warnemen
The BHL is an international collaboration of natural history libraries working together to make biodiversity literature available for use by the widest possible audience through open access and sustainable management.
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Outreach Strategies to Engage Citizen Scientists: Insights from the Biodivers...costantinog
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BHL Outreach: Strategies and Ways to Collaboratecostantinog
This presentation outlines the Biodiversity Heritage Library's outreach strategies and the ways that the Library collaborates with Members and Affiliates on outreach activities.
Early Women in Science: Free Resources from the Biodiversity Heritage Librarycostantinog
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
The Story of Engagement: Outreach Strategies at the Biodiversity Heritage Lib...costantinog
The document summarizes the outreach strategies of the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) to promote its digital collections. BHL shares collections on social media platforms like Flickr, Twitter, and through a blog. It engages citizens in projects like transcribing historical documents, tagging images, and identifying species in old illustrations. BHL also collaborates with others through initiatives like enhancing Wikipedia articles and highlighting real stories of the library's impact on science. The goal is to increase access to and understanding of biodiversity literature through various outreach channels.
Science as Art: Free Access to Natural History Books and Art in the Biodivers...costantinog
A presentation given at the Smithsonian Associates event entitled: "Science as Art: The Beauty of Botanical Illustration." This presentation was a joint event with Alice Tangerini on 12 February, 2017.
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Presentation from the panel "Listen, Engage, Repeat: Lessons from the Front Line of Engagement" presented as part of the 38th Annual Society for Scholarly Publishing Conference in Vancouver, BC, 2 June 2016. Presentation covered BHL's implementation of Altmetric and Disqus to support engagement goals related to conversation discovery, creation, and community building.
The document provides information about the Biodiversity Heritage Library's (BHL) digitization process and workflow. It discusses prioritizing materials for scanning, avoiding duplication, directly scanning materials through the Internet Archive or with in-house equipment, integrating content using Internet Archive or Smithsonian software, and managing metadata and generated content in the BHL database. Issues or errors are submitted and tracked through an administrative dashboard and issue tracking software.
Presentation by Connie Rinaldo about the BHL copyright policies. Presented at the BHL-Africa launch and workshop, April 16, 2013. Pretoria, South Africa.
An overview of the Biodiversity Heritage Library, by William Ulate. Presented at the BHL-Africa Launch and Workshop, April 16, 2013. Pretoria, South Africa.
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A presentation on the Global Biodiversity Heritage Library. Presented by Nancy Gwinn at the BHL-Africa workshop, April 16, 2013. Pretoria, South Africa.
Responses about digitization capacity and scanning content from BHL-Africa members, presented by Lawrence Monda (National Museums of Kenya) and the BHL-Africa Workshop, May 16, 2013.
This is a presentation given by Grace Costantino (SIL) at the 2011 ASIS&T Conference in New Orleans, USA. It talks about the BHL blog series BHL and Our Users, which interviews users on their work and how they use BHL to support that work.
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ESA/ACT Science Coffee: Diego Blas - Gravitational wave detection with orbita...Advanced-Concepts-Team
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Speaker: Diego Blas (IFAE/ICREA)
Title: Gravitational wave detection with orbital motion of Moon and artificial
Abstract:
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Travis Hills of MN is Making Clean Water Accessible to All Through High Flux ...Travis Hills MN
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EWOCS-I: The catalog of X-ray sources in Westerlund 1 from the Extended Weste...Sérgio Sacani
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among stars.
Aims. In this paper we present the Extended Westerlund 1 and 2 Open Clusters Survey (EWOCS) project, which aims to investigate
the influence of the starburst environment on the formation of stars and planets, and on the evolution of both low and high mass stars.
The primary targets of this project are Westerlund 1 and 2, the closest supermassive star clusters to the Sun.
Methods. The project is based primarily on recent observations conducted with the Chandra and JWST observatories. Specifically,
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photon flux threshold of approximately 2 × 10−8 photons cm−2
s
−1
. The X-ray sources exhibit a highly concentrated spatial distribution,
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massive stars of the cluster, and we have collected over 71 000 photons from the magnetar CXO J164710.20-455217.
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DR3 have positive caustic velocities, making them fundamentally different than the phase-mixed chevrons found in simulations
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on a simple phase-mixing model, the observed number of caustics are consistent with a merger that occurred 1–2 Gyr ago.
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2. Natural history literature and archives contain
information that is critical to studying life on Earth.
SPECIES
DESCRIPTIONS
DISTRIBUTION
RECORDS
HISTORY OF
SCIENTIFIC
DISCOVERY
CLIMATE
RECORDS
INFORMATION
ON EXTINCT
SPECIES
SCIENTIFIC
OBSERVATIONS
ECOSYSTEM
PROFILES
SCIENTIFIC
ILLUSTRATIONS
3. Before BHL…
Much of this literature was available
in only a few select libraries in the
developed world. Lack of literature is
a major impediment to the efficiency
of scientific research.
10. By researching the published history of this
species using BHL, in combination with
molecular and morphological data, Dr. Giri and
his coauthors provided a new species name
(Calotes minor) and placement for the
Hardwicke’s bloodsucker in a 2015 Vertebrate
Zoology paper.
Published Online at:
www.senckenberg.de /vertebrate-zoology
11. EMPOWERING GLOBAL SCIENCE
Dr. Varad B. Giri
HERPETOLOGIST
National Centre for Biological Sciences (Bangalore, India)
“BHL is doing a wonderful service for
researchers like me, who work with
limited resources in developing
countries like India. I strongly feel that if
BHL was not available, I would not
have performed good scientific work
with such ease due to a lack of
historical literature.”
13. REAL-WORLD STORIES
ABOUT BHL IMPACT ON…
Fiji Reefs
Image sources top to bottom: www.nanukufiji.com | seafijireefs.com | www.pri.org
14. REAL-WORLD STORIES
ABOUT BHL IMPACT ON…
Fiji Reefs
Image sources top to bottom: www.nanukufiji.com | seafijireefs.com | www.pri.org
Marine Protected Areas
Vanua Levu, Fiji
Image Source: dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/940765
15.
16. The Fishes of Samoa (1906) has had a greater impact on Dr. Drew’s research
than any other book in BHL. Why?
It tells us “what these reefs looked like before widespread development”
and it “describes for perhaps the first time” the unique patterns of species
distribution in the Southwest Pacific.
17. EMPOWERING CONSERVATION
Dr. Joshua Drew
MARINE CONSERVATION BIOLOGIST
Columbia University
“BHL is a very important part of my
research. Having access to historical
literature is essential to characterizing
what ecosystems used to look like, what
species were present and what peoples'
opinions of the health of the ecosystem
were like throughout time. This provides
baselines to evaluate how current
conservation measures are succeeding.”
19. REAL-WORLD STORIES
ABOUT BHL IMPACT ON…
Image: Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum. v. 41 (1912)
In 1911, the Smithsonian debuted
the world's first large mounted
Camptosaurus skeleton.
Image Source: newsdesk.si.edu
20. Mark Lay with Camptosaurus cast at the
National Museum of Natural History
21. The Camptosaurus mounts are detailed
in a 1912 article by Charles W. Gilmore
published in Proceedings of the United
States National Museum. v. 41.
22. Camptosaurus fossils were
uncovered at a quarry near
Como Bluff, Wyoming.
Article in Proceedings of the United
States National Museum provides diagram
of the position of the larger Camptosaurus
specimen in the rocks before excavation.
23. EMPOWERING MUSEUM WORK
Mark Lay
“BHL has greatly sped up my research
process and enables me to access
documents that otherwise would be
extremely difficult for me to obtain. The
fact that I can access these documents
via BHL means that I can also work from
home – greatly increasing the amount of
time that I can devote to my volunteer
research.”
VOLUNTEER | VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY PREPARATION LAB
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
24.
25. BHL is a Global Consortium
20MEMBERS
AS OF MARCH 2018
20AFFILIATES
80+ WORLDWIDE PARTNERS
26. “SBG Library believes that BHL, with its rich
digital repository of biological information, will
continue to play an important role in botanical
research and has indirectly also become a
platform for long-term preservation of historical
and legacy biodiversity literatures.”
27. “Over time, the SBG Library has amassed
a good collection of rare and scholarly
printed literature, housed in a climate-
controlled archive room, which were
accessible to, and utilised by, only a
handful of privileged in-house researchers.
Access via BHL will allow far greater
access to academics, researchers,
students, and the global public than was
ever possible before.”
EXPANDING LIBRARY IMPACT
Dr. Nura Abdul Karim
DEPUTY DIRECTOR | Library, Training & External Relations.
Singapore Botanic Gardens
28. Inspiring Discovery through
Free Access to Biodiversity Knowledge
Vision
The Biodiversity Heritage Library
improves research methodology
by collaboratively making biodiversity
literature openly available to the world
as part of a global biodiversity
community.
Mission
29. Thank You!
Questions?
Grace Costantino (CostantinoG@si.edu)
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