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.

1. Strategies to
Engage
Discovering & Facilitating
Engagements around
Biodiversity Literature
Grace Costantino
2 June 2016 | 2016 SSP 38th Annual Meeting

2. Biodiversity Heritage Library
An open access digital library for biodiversity
literature with 60+ participating institutions
across the globe.
www.biodiversitylibrary.org

3. Engagement-Related Goals
• Demonstrate the value of our
collections to modern-day research
• Facilitate engagements with our
collections that:
– Allow our audiences to share their expertise
related to our collections
– Provide ways for our audiences to enhance our
collections

4. Tools to Facilitate Engagement
• The Institute of Museum and Library
Services-funded Mining Biodiversity Project
aims to transform BHL into a next-
generation social digital library to facilitate
the study and discussion of biodiversity
literature.
• 2 tools added to support this objective:

5. Altmetric on BHL
Badges
Dashboard with top
Books of the week.

6. Impact on Research

7. Looking Forward
• Continue to monitor to find more use
cases
• Continue to monitor to inform outreach
strategies and collections development
• See if there’s a way to use this data to
demonstrate to existing and potential
partners the impact of having their
content in BHL

8. Facilitating Discussions

9. Enhancing Collections

10. Enhancing Collections

11. Enhancing Collections

12. Looking Forward
• Currently– sharing finds on social
media
• In the future:
– How can we use this information to directly
improve our library?
• add scientific names; correct scientific names; map
synonym relationships; ingest crowdsourced
transcriptions directly into BHL.

13. Thank You!
Kuns%ormen der Natur
Leipzig und Wien. 1904.
h2p://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33543656
Grace Costantino
Outreach and Communication Manager
Biodiversity Heritage Library
Smithsonian Libraries
www.biodiversitylibrary.org
costantinog@si.edu