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Global BHL Update May 2013
The document summarizes updates from various global partners in the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) initiative. BHL-China has digitized over 800 volumes and 292,000 pages. BHL-Australia is improving its user interface and accessing content from the Internet Archive. Bibliotheca Alexandrina is promoting synchronization with the global BHL. BHL-SciELO Brazil has scanned over 500 works and is preparing metadata for integration. Plans are discussed to expand BHL initiatives in Africa and other regions.
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Global BHL Update May 2013
- 1. Institutional Council Meeting MarineBiological Laboratory May 6-7, 2013 Global BHL Update William Ulate Global BHL Coordinator
- 2. What is BHL? TheBiodiversity Heritage Library is a consortium of natural history and botanical libraries that cooperate to digitize and make accessible the legacy literature of biodiversity held in their collections and to make that literature available for open access and responsible use as a part of a global “biodiversity commons.” The Biodiversity Heritage Library is a consortium of natural history and botanical libraries that cooperate to digitize and make accessible the legacy literature of biodiversity held in their collections and to make that literature available for open access and responsible use as a part of a global “biodiversity commons.” The Biodiversity Heritage Library is a consortium of natural history and botanical libraries that cooperate to digitize and make accessible the legacy literature of biodiversity held in their collections and to make that literature available for open access and responsible use as a part of a global “biodiversity commons.”
- 3. 22.00 40.00 84.86 94.6 105.85 9.2 16.4 31.8 35.4 38.9 - 20 40 60 80 100 120 Oct-08 Oct-09 Oct-10Oct-11 Oct-12 Pages (Millions) and Volumes (in Thousands) included in BHL Volumes (K) Pages (M) More Online Content
- 4. GLOBAL BHL is… acooperative network of autonomous members operating programs and projects to make biodiversity literature available through open access principles.
- 5. 15 consortium membersin the US/UK A truly global initiative…
- 6. A truly globalinitiative…
- 7. New Partners andnew Content
- 8. Goals of gBHL •Digitize and aggregate as much biodiversity literature as funding and copyright law allows through the member programs and projects. • Maintain repositories for the indexing, storage, preservation and serving of this digital content. • Develop services to make this digital content widely and easily available.
- 9. Principles • Open access.The digital content served by gBHL members is available without cost and can be reused by other projects and users with appropriate attribution. • Collaboration. Each gBHL member will actively coordinate its activities with other BHL partners to achieve agreed objectives. • Decentralization. Each gBHL member is self-governing and funded. • Interoperability. Each gBHL member will deploy technologies enabling sharing of digital content and services with other gBHL members. • Transparency. The processes of the gBHL will be transparent and clear to all members and the public. • Legality. The gBHL members will operate within their legal frameworks.
- 10. Membership Composed of organizations,programs and projects that are contributing content or services to gBHL. Each member is responsible for its own plans, governance and funding.
- 11. Coordinating Committee (gBHL-CC) •Oversees the functioning of the gBHL. • Composed of one representative from each member; • Each representative has one vote. • Has responsibilities for determining membership, strategic planning and recommending policy for collaborative work.
- 12. Coordinating Committee (gBHL-CC) •May choose to invite relevant organizations to its meetings as well as to establish temporary working groups to address specific themes and provide the gBHL-CC with in depth analysis and recommendations. • Will have by-laws for its operations. • May choose to establish a Secretariat.
- 13. Global Replication &Serving Replicated Data Center Portal Application
- 14. Biodiversity Heritage Libraryfor Europe current status and perspecives Jiří Frank National MuseumPraha
- 15. 15 / 18 facts BHL-Europeportal www.bhl-europe.eu (project website remain on www.bhle.eu) Launched in March 2013 Over 6 000 books Over 3 million pages Servers – NHM London Sustainability – London, Berlin, Prague, Vienna
- 16. 16 / 18 portalfront page
- 17. 17 / 18 portaladvanced search
- 18. 18 / 18 portalresult list
- 19. 19 / 18 portalbibliographic page
- 20. 20 / 18 portalcontent viewer
- 21. 21 / 18 portalbrowse
- 22. 22 / 18 Content Contentfrom 94 content providers Majority from US About 1/3 from European institutions
- 23. 23 / 18 sustainability BHL-Europeneeds to show: sustainability and positive trends in growing content Increasing number of European books from European content providers
- 24. 24 / 18 perspectives BHL-Europeas a robust European aggregator of biodiversity heritage literature Cooperation with BHL-US, BHL –China, and other BHL portals Search for suitable funding
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- 27. BHL-China: How? 1. Signedthe MOU of IA & IBCAS in Apr. 2. On-site installation of one Scribe and staff training in Aug. when mini Beijing scanning center was set up. 3. The Scribe in Beijing functioned in late Aug. 4. Scanning rate speeding up.
- 28. BHL-China: beautiful book& plants
- 29. BHL-China: all Floraof China at the province level 新新新新 藏藏藏藏 桂桂桂桂 蒙蒙蒙蒙 黑黑黑黑 吉吉吉吉 辽辽辽辽 津津津津 京京京京 冀冀冀冀 晋晋晋晋 甘甘甘甘 黔黔黔黔 渝渝渝渝 陕陕陕陕 鲁鲁鲁鲁 沪沪沪沪 鄂鄂鄂鄂 皖皖皖皖 湘湘湘湘 琼琼琼琼 川川川川 滇滇滇滇 宁宁宁宁 青青青青 粤粤粤粤 台台台台 澳澳澳澳 港港港港 赣赣赣赣 浙浙浙浙 苏苏苏苏 深深深深
- 30. BHL-China: all Floraof China at the province level has been ocred 新新新新 藏藏藏藏 桂桂桂桂 蒙蒙蒙蒙 黑黑黑黑 吉吉吉吉 辽辽辽辽 津津津津 京京京京 冀冀冀冀 晋晋晋晋 甘甘甘甘 黔黔黔黔 渝渝渝渝 陕陕陕陕 鲁鲁鲁鲁 沪沪沪沪 鄂鄂鄂鄂 皖皖皖皖 湘湘湘湘 琼琼琼琼 川川川川 滇滇滇滇 宁宁宁宁 青青青青 粤粤粤粤 台台台台 澳澳澳澳 港港港港 赣赣赣赣 浙浙浙浙 苏苏苏苏 深深深深
- 31. BHl-China: How OCRa book? ABBYY 10.0
- 32. BHL-China: subjects ofscanned books Botany (Flora, plant checklist, field survey reports) , Plant ecology, fungi, algae checklist, fossil plants, agriculture, forestry, etc. Zoology( fauna) Microbiology Marine biology Paleobiology More------ Institute of Zoology, CAS Institute of Microbiology, CAS
- 33. Input species name here Newsand Blogs Covers of selected books BHLBHLBHLBHL----China: WebsiteChina: WebsiteChina: WebsiteChina: Website
- 34. Link to :EOL, Ubio List of books with searched names Image Text SpeciesSpeciesSpeciesSpecies----LiteratureLiteratureLiteratureLiterature
- 35. Species Search EngineSpeciesSearch EngineSpecies Search EngineSpecies Search Engine Based on data of BHLBased on data of BHLBased on data of BHLBased on data of BHL----USAUSAUSAUSA Link to the literature of BHL-USA
- 36. Full text search Zoomin and out Turn page back and forth Internet Archive BookReader Online read and serchOnline read and serchOnline read and serchOnline read and serch
- 37. BHL-China Service: Species2000-BHL Literature Dead Here LetLink to Literature Move On!
- 38. BHL-China • BHL-China membersvisited SIL and MOBOT in early November to discuss project status and future collaborations and development • Has digitized Chinese materials and made now available 893 volumes from 869 titles, containing 292166 pages in their collections. • Has copied all content sent from Cluster (12,586 entries so far), waiting for the rest…
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- 42. BHL Australia • ImprovedUI. • Visited MOBOT in November 2011 • Shared Metadata DB between systems • Jointly development of tools with BHL-US • Accessing content from IA • Started to digitize and upload content to Internet Archive. • Worked closely for BHL-AU/US-ome
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- 44. BHL-Egypt • The DigitalAssets Repository (DAR) is a system developed at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, the Library of Alexandria, to create and maintain the Library's digital collections. • Bibliotheca Alexandrina has copied content from disks and downloaded the rest from Internet Archive (80K). • Had created a team to setup a BHL portal. • Promote synchronization at the Global BHL Technical Meeting in Berlin in June. • Library Director has moved to a new position.
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- 46. BHL-SciELO Brazil • Hadbeen contributing content to BHL via Citebank • Had installed two digitization stations • Had visited the US to meet SIL and MOBOT staff and work on familiarizing with tools and determine best practices
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- 48. BHL-SciELO Brazil • Hasnow installed four digitization stations: – Museu de Zoologia da USP – Instituto Butantan (finalized) – Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro – Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi. • Has scanned more than 500 works. • Metadata conversion finalized for the scanned books and started the test phase.
- 49. BHL-SciELO Brazil • Planningon generating Marc XML to have books ready available for the next gBHL Meeting in Morocco in May. • Has asked for the Portal code to translate into Portuguese and show content from Brazil. • Will attend gBHL Meeting in Morocco.
- 50. BHL-Africa • Planning ongenerating Marc XML to have books ready available for the next gBHL Meeting in Morocco in May. • Has asked for the Portal code to translate into Portuguese and show content from Brazil. • Will attend gBHL Meeting in Morocco.