“Yet Another BHL Presentation”: The Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin R. Kalfatovic. Internet Archive Leaders' Forum. October 19, 2009. San Francisco, CA.
An Overview of Activities and Projects: The Biodiversity Heritage LibraryMartin Kalfatovic
An Overview of Activities and Projects: The Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin R. Kalfatovic. Workshop Coleção de Obras Raras Essencial. 3-5 February 2010. São Paulo, Brazil.
Smithsonian Libraries Partnering in ResearchSCPilsk
The Smithsonian Institution Libraries partners in research by providing access to collections and expertise to support scientific research. The libraries have extensive collections in natural history, art, history, and other areas. They provide tools and resources to support taxonomic research, including digitizing publications like the Taxonomic Literature reference work to make the information more accessible and connectable through linked open data approaches. The libraries help enable new scholarship through open access to historical materials.
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.
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
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 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.
The document discusses the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), a digital library project working to digitize literature about biodiversity. It provides details about the founding and history of BHL, the institutions involved in scanning literature, the scanning process, challenges around selecting materials to scan and avoiding duplication, and examples of how BHL has helped researchers find historical literature.
An Overview of Activities and Projects: The Biodiversity Heritage LibraryMartin Kalfatovic
An Overview of Activities and Projects: The Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin R. Kalfatovic. Workshop Coleção de Obras Raras Essencial. 3-5 February 2010. São Paulo, Brazil.
Smithsonian Libraries Partnering in ResearchSCPilsk
The Smithsonian Institution Libraries partners in research by providing access to collections and expertise to support scientific research. The libraries have extensive collections in natural history, art, history, and other areas. They provide tools and resources to support taxonomic research, including digitizing publications like the Taxonomic Literature reference work to make the information more accessible and connectable through linked open data approaches. The libraries help enable new scholarship through open access to historical materials.
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.
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
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 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.
The document discusses the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), a digital library project working to digitize literature about biodiversity. It provides details about the founding and history of BHL, the institutions involved in scanning literature, the scanning process, challenges around selecting materials to scan and avoiding duplication, and examples of how BHL has helped researchers find historical literature.
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is a digital library of over 50 million pages of literature from natural history and biodiversity. It is a collaboration of 12 major natural history and botanical libraries. BHL provides open access to its literature and has over 800,000 annual visitors from over 200 countries seeking information on systematics, taxonomy, and nomenclature. Users access BHL directly as well as through links from sites like Encyclopedia of Life, Wikipedia, and search engines. BHL is working to connect its literature to field notes, specimens, and other research to provide more integrated access to biodiversity information.
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.
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
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.
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 is a vast digital library containing literature on biodiversity. It was formed in 2005 by major natural history institutions to make biodiversity literature openly accessible online. The library aims to digitize and provide free access to literature that is typically scattered in various physical libraries. It addresses the long half-life of publications in taxonomy and the need for students and researchers to access original references. The founding institutions include the American Museum of Natural History, Natural History Museum, and others. The library utilizes permissions and open access to digitize content and allows for reuse through sites like Encyclopedia of Life.
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.
The Botanical Origins of the Biodiversity Heritage LibraryMartin Kalfatovic
The Botanical Origins of the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin R. Kalfatovic. Department of Botany: National Museum of Natural History. May 26, 2009. Washington, DC.
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.
Empowering Global Research: User Stories from the Biodiversity Heritage Librarycostantinog
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
The Biodiversity Heritage Library: Corn-fed, Missouri Raised, Going GlobalMartin Kalfatovic
The Biodiversity Heritage Library: Corn-fed, Missouri Raised, Going Global. Martin R. Kalfatovic. Missouri Botanical Garden Staff Meeting. August 19, 2009. Saint Louis, MO.
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is a digital library of over 50 million pages of literature from natural history and biodiversity. It is a collaboration of 12 major natural history and botanical libraries. BHL provides open access to its literature and has over 800,000 annual visitors from over 200 countries seeking information on systematics, taxonomy, and nomenclature. Users access BHL directly as well as through links from sites like Encyclopedia of Life, Wikipedia, and search engines. BHL is working to connect its literature to field notes, specimens, and other research to provide more integrated access to biodiversity information.
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.
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
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.
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 is a vast digital library containing literature on biodiversity. It was formed in 2005 by major natural history institutions to make biodiversity literature openly accessible online. The library aims to digitize and provide free access to literature that is typically scattered in various physical libraries. It addresses the long half-life of publications in taxonomy and the need for students and researchers to access original references. The founding institutions include the American Museum of Natural History, Natural History Museum, and others. The library utilizes permissions and open access to digitize content and allows for reuse through sites like Encyclopedia of Life.
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.
The Botanical Origins of the Biodiversity Heritage LibraryMartin Kalfatovic
The Botanical Origins of the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin R. Kalfatovic. Department of Botany: National Museum of Natural History. May 26, 2009. Washington, DC.
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.
Empowering Global Research: User Stories from the Biodiversity Heritage Librarycostantinog
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
The Biodiversity Heritage Library: Corn-fed, Missouri Raised, Going GlobalMartin Kalfatovic
The Biodiversity Heritage Library: Corn-fed, Missouri Raised, Going Global. Martin R. Kalfatovic. Missouri Botanical Garden Staff Meeting. August 19, 2009. Saint Louis, MO.
The Biodiversity Heritage Library: Origin | Growth | PartnershipsMartin Kalfatovic
The Biodiversity Heritage Library: Origin | Growth | Partnerships. Martin R. Kalfatovic. Biodiversity Heritage Library Organization and Planning Meeting. Kirstenbosch, Cape Town, South Africa. 14 June 2012. . Washington, DC. 24 May 2012.
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.
Biodiversity Heritage Library: A Conversation About A Collaborative Digitizin...Martin Kalfatovic
The document discusses the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), a collaborative project to digitize literature related to biodiversity and make it openly accessible online. It describes the goals of the BHL, participating institutions like natural history museums and botanical gardens, the types of literature being digitized, and challenges around metadata and linking digitized content to taxonomic databases.
The document summarizes the status of the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) from 2007 to 2009. It describes the growth of BHL's digital collection, which included over 1.3 million records from various natural history institutions. It also outlines BHL's mass scanning operations with the Internet Archive and its efforts to engage additional partners and expand access to biodiversity literature.
Usaf navy marine corps librarians 06 25-10Marcia Adams
The document provides an overview of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries (SIL) and its role in digitization efforts. SIL is a distributed library system consisting of 20 branches that supports the Smithsonian museums, research centers, and staff. It holds over 1.7 million volumes and digital collections that are made available through the Smithsonian Collections Search Center. SIL leads the Biodiversity Heritage Library initiative to digitize literature on biodiversity and make it openly accessible online. The project involves collaborating institutions that are working to digitize over 6 kilometers of literature on species descriptions.
Usaf navy marine corps librarians 06 25-10marciaadams
The document provides an overview of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries (SIL) and its role in digitization efforts. SIL is a distributed library system consisting of 20 branches that supports the Smithsonian museums, research centers, and staff. It holds over 1.7 million volumes and provides resources to researchers worldwide through its website and projects like the Biodiversity Heritage Library, which aims to digitize literature on biodiversity. SIL leads major collaborations to make the Smithsonian's collections more accessible online through digitization and aims to send knowledge out into the world.
ALA Presentation 2010 Open Office PowerpointSCPilsk
This document discusses the mass scanning workflow of the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), a digital library of taxonomic literature. It describes how the BHL member institutions collaborated on scanning priorities, avoiding duplication, and handling complex serials and monographs. Key aspects of the workflow included selecting materials, establishing scanning viability, metadata analysis, de-duplication processes, quality assurance, and making the materials accessible online. The BHL created effective tools and procedures to manage the large-scale digitization project.
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.
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.
Oh Time, Thy Pyramids! The Biodiversity Heritage Library and the Unchaining o...Martin Kalfatovic
Oh Time, Thy Pyramids! The Biodiversity Heritage Library and the Unchaining of the Universal Library(?). Martin Kalfatovic. Information Futures Institute. Berkman Center for Internet & Society. April 12, 2008. Cambridge, MA.
Botany and the BHL: A Botanical Overview of the Biodiversity Heritage LibraryMartin Kalfatovic
Botany and the BHL: A Botanical Overview of the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin R. kalfatovic. Botany Department Seminar. National Museum of Natural History. Smithsonian Institution. Washington, DC. 15 September 2016.
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.
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.
Open Scientific Digital Libraries: The Biodiversity Heritage LibraryMartin Kalfatovic
"Open Scientific Digital Libraries: The Biodiversity Heritage Library." Martin R. Kalfatovic. Digital Libraies for the Maghreb. Fulbright Academy of Science & Technology. Washington, DC. 24 January 2010.
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.
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.
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This document discusses the growth of ebooks and the future of books in a digital format. Some key points include:
- There are over 10 million ebook titles currently available in the United States from various sources.
- Ebooks are significantly cheaper than their physical print counterparts, with ebooks costing around $6.66 on average compared to $100-180 for hardcover books.
- Ebooks offer advantages over print such as availability in multiple formats, integration of rich media, social connectivity features, and quicker publication timelines.
- The future of books is pointed towards more interactive digital formats that incorporate gamification and pricing models that are fair to both consumers and publishers.
Managing Scholarly Research Output: The Smithsonian Institution ExperienceMartin Kalfatovic
Managing Scholarly Research Output: The Smithsonian Institution Experience. Martin R. Kalfatovic, Alvin Hutchinson, Richard Naples, and Suzanne Pilsk. Smithsonian-The National Commission for Science, Technology and Innovation (NACOSTI). Washington, DC, 16 May 2019.
Seeing a Butterfly & Knowing What It Is: BHL: Past > Present > FutureMartin Kalfatovic
Seeing a Butterfly & Knowing What It Is: BHL: Past > Present > Future. Martin R. Kalfatovic. 2019 BHL Annual Meeting. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. 30 April 2019.
Managing Scholarly Research Output: The Smithsonian Institution ExperienceMartin Kalfatovic
Managing Scholarly Research Output: The Smithsonian Institution Experience. Martin R. Kalfatovic, Alvin Hutchinson, Richard Naples, and Suzanne Pilsk. CNI Spring Meeting. St. Louis, MO. 8 April 2019.
Discoverable, Accessible, Reusable, and Transparent (DART): Scholarly Communi...Martin Kalfatovic
Discoverable, Accessible, Reusable, and Transparent (DART): Scholarly Communications and the Research Museum. Martin R. Kalfatovic. Global Summit of Research Museums. Berlin. 5 November 2018.
Cultural Heritage and the Technology of Culture: Finding the Nature of Illumi...Martin Kalfatovic
Cultural Heritage and the Technology of Culture: Finding the Nature of Illumination in Libraries and Museums. Martin R. Kalfatovic. 9th Shanghai International Library Forum. Shanghai, China. 19 October 2018.
Smithsonian Libraries: Digital Programs and Initiatives DivisionMartin Kalfatovic
This document outlines the organization of the Smithsonian Libraries' Digital Programs and Initiatives Division. It details the various departments within the division including Digital Library and Digitization, Metadata, Biodiversity Heritage Library, Outreach and Education, Scholarly Communications, and Web Services. It provides an overview of the roles and current projects of each department as they work to advance the Smithsonian's strategic goal of reaching 1 billion people annually through a digital first strategy.
The Biodiversity Heritage Library & Botany: Empowering Discovery through Free...Martin Kalfatovic
The Biodiversity Heritage Library & Botany: Empowering Discovery through Free Access to Biodiversity Knowledge. Martin R. Kalfatovic. Botany 2018. Rochester, MN. 24 July 2018.
Expanding Access for the Local and Global Increasing Access & Empowering Glob...Martin Kalfatovic
Expanding Access for the Local and Global Increasing Access & Empowering Global Biodiversity Research through the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin R. Kalfatovic. 2018 Ohio Natural History Conference. Cleveland Museum of Natural History. 24 February 2018.
The Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG): Opportunities for Collaboratio...Martin Kalfatovic
The Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG), also known as the Taxonomic Databases Working Group, is a non-profit scientific and educational association that is affiliated with the International Union of Biological Sciences. TDWG was formed to establish international collaboration among biological database projects and related services. Promoting the wider and more effective dissemination of information about the World's heritage of biological organisms for the benefit of the world at large, TDWG focuses on the development of standards for the exchange of biological/biodiversity data. TDWG promotes the use of standards through the most appropriate and effective means and acts as a forum for discussion through holding meetings and through publications, especially the recently launched open access journal, Biodiversity Information Standards and Science. This presentation will focus on areas of possible collaboration by the larger networked information community around bioinformatic standards, areas where TDWG collaborates with other biodiversity organizations such as the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL), and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).
A Vast Library of Life: The Biodiversity Heritage LibraryMartin Kalfatovic
A Vast Library of Life: The Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin R. Kalfatovic. Aim, Scope & Challenges of Research Museums: An Exchange between the Smithsonian Institution & Leibniz Association. Washington, DC. 30 October 2017.
Smithsonian Libraries in Service of Scholarly Communications: An Introduction...Martin Kalfatovic
Smithsonian Libraries in Service of Scholarly Communications: An Introduction to Smithsonian Research Online & Other Resources. Martin R. Kalfatovic. Aim, Scope & Challenges of Research Museums: An Exchange between the Smithsonian Institution & Leibniz Association. Washington, DC. 30 October 2017.
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.
Digital Programs & Initiatives @ Smithsonian Libraries: Scholarly Communicati...Martin Kalfatovic
Digital Programs & Initiatives @ Smithsonian Libraries: Scholarly Communications | Digital Library | Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin R. Kalfatovic. Presentation for the National Library of Medicine Staff. Smithsonian Libraries. Washington, DC. 9 June 2017
“The Gift of Time”: Impact through Open: The Biodiversity Heritage LibraryMartin Kalfatovic
“The Gift of Time”: Impact through Open: The Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin R. Kalfatovic. Bracing for Impact: Digitizing Collections to Change Lives. 2017 Smithsonian Digitization Fair. Washington. 19 October 2017.
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.
HCL Notes and Domino License Cost Reduction in the World of DLAUpanagenda
Webinar Recording: https://www.panagenda.com/webinars/hcl-notes-and-domino-license-cost-reduction-in-the-world-of-dlau/
The introduction of DLAU and the CCB & CCX licensing model caused quite a stir in the HCL community. As a Notes and Domino customer, you may have faced challenges with unexpected user counts and license costs. You probably have questions on how this new licensing approach works and how to benefit from it. Most importantly, you likely have budget constraints and want to save money where possible. Don’t worry, we can help with all of this!
We’ll show you how to fix common misconfigurations that cause higher-than-expected user counts, and how to identify accounts which you can deactivate to save money. There are also frequent patterns that can cause unnecessary cost, like using a person document instead of a mail-in for shared mailboxes. We’ll provide examples and solutions for those as well. And naturally we’ll explain the new licensing model.
Join HCL Ambassador Marc Thomas in this webinar with a special guest appearance from Franz Walder. It will give you the tools and know-how to stay on top of what is going on with Domino licensing. You will be able lower your cost through an optimized configuration and keep it low going forward.
These topics will be covered
- Reducing license cost by finding and fixing misconfigurations and superfluous accounts
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- Understanding the DLAU tool and how to best utilize it
- Tips for common problem areas, like team mailboxes, functional/test users, etc
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Generating privacy-protected synthetic data using Secludy and MilvusZilliz
During this demo, the founders of Secludy will demonstrate how their system utilizes Milvus to store and manipulate embeddings for generating privacy-protected synthetic data. Their approach not only maintains the confidentiality of the original data but also enhances the utility and scalability of LLMs under privacy constraints. Attendees, including machine learning engineers, data scientists, and data managers, will witness first-hand how Secludy's integration with Milvus empowers organizations to harness the power of LLMs securely and efficiently.
Conversational agents, or chatbots, are increasingly used to access all sorts of services using natural language. While open-domain chatbots - like ChatGPT - can converse on any topic, task-oriented chatbots - the focus of this paper - are designed for specific tasks, like booking a flight, obtaining customer support, or setting an appointment. Like any other software, task-oriented chatbots need to be properly tested, usually by defining and executing test scenarios (i.e., sequences of user-chatbot interactions). However, there is currently a lack of methods to quantify the completeness and strength of such test scenarios, which can lead to low-quality tests, and hence to buggy chatbots.
To fill this gap, we propose adapting mutation testing (MuT) for task-oriented chatbots. To this end, we introduce a set of mutation operators that emulate faults in chatbot designs, an architecture that enables MuT on chatbots built using heterogeneous technologies, and a practical realisation as an Eclipse plugin. Moreover, we evaluate the applicability, effectiveness and efficiency of our approach on open-source chatbots, with promising results.
"Frontline Battles with DDoS: Best practices and Lessons Learned", Igor IvaniukFwdays
At this talk we will discuss DDoS protection tools and best practices, discuss network architectures and what AWS has to offer. Also, we will look into one of the largest DDoS attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure that happened in February 2022. We'll see, what techniques helped to keep the web resources available for Ukrainians and how AWS improved DDoS protection for all customers based on Ukraine experience
zkStudyClub - LatticeFold: A Lattice-based Folding Scheme and its Application...Alex Pruden
Folding is a recent technique for building efficient recursive SNARKs. Several elegant folding protocols have been proposed, such as Nova, Supernova, Hypernova, Protostar, and others. However, all of them rely on an additively homomorphic commitment scheme based on discrete log, and are therefore not post-quantum secure. In this work we present LatticeFold, the first lattice-based folding protocol based on the Module SIS problem. This folding protocol naturally leads to an efficient recursive lattice-based SNARK and an efficient PCD scheme. LatticeFold supports folding low-degree relations, such as R1CS, as well as high-degree relations, such as CCS. The key challenge is to construct a secure folding protocol that works with the Ajtai commitment scheme. The difficulty, is ensuring that extracted witnesses are low norm through many rounds of folding. We present a novel technique using the sumcheck protocol to ensure that extracted witnesses are always low norm no matter how many rounds of folding are used. Our evaluation of the final proof system suggests that it is as performant as Hypernova, while providing post-quantum security.
Paper Link: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/257
Skybuffer SAM4U tool for SAP license adoptionTatiana Kojar
Manage and optimize your license adoption and consumption with SAM4U, an SAP free customer software asset management tool.
SAM4U, an SAP complimentary software asset management tool for customers, delivers a detailed and well-structured overview of license inventory and usage with a user-friendly interface. We offer a hosted, cost-effective, and performance-optimized SAM4U setup in the Skybuffer Cloud environment. You retain ownership of the system and data, while we manage the ABAP 7.58 infrastructure, ensuring fixed Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and exceptional services through the SAP Fiori interface.
Have you ever been confused by the myriad of choices offered by AWS for hosting a website or an API?
Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, Lightsail, Amplify, S3 (and more!) can each host websites + APIs. But which one should we choose?
Which one is cheapest? Which one is fastest? Which one will scale to meet our needs?
Join me in this session as we dive into each AWS hosting service to determine which one is best for your scenario and explain why!
How information systems are built or acquired puts information, which is what they should be about, in a secondary place. Our language adapted accordingly, and we no longer talk about information systems but applications. Applications evolved in a way to break data into diverse fragments, tightly coupled with applications and expensive to integrate. The result is technical debt, which is re-paid by taking even bigger "loans", resulting in an ever-increasing technical debt. Software engineering and procurement practices work in sync with market forces to maintain this trend. This talk demonstrates how natural this situation is. The question is: can something be done to reverse the trend?
Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing.pdfssuserfac0301
Read Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing to gain insights on AI adoption in the manufacturing industry, such as:
1. How quickly AI is being implemented in manufacturing.
2. Which barriers stand in the way of AI adoption.
3. How data quality and governance form the backbone of AI.
4. Organizational processes and structures that may inhibit effective AI adoption.
6. Ideas and approaches to help build your organization's AI strategy.
5th LF Energy Power Grid Model Meet-up SlidesDanBrown980551
5th Power Grid Model Meet-up
It is with great pleasure that we extend to you an invitation to the 5th Power Grid Model Meet-up, scheduled for 6th June 2024. This event will adopt a hybrid format, allowing participants to join us either through an online Mircosoft Teams session or in person at TU/e located at Den Dolech 2, Eindhoven, Netherlands. The meet-up will be hosted by Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), a research university specializing in engineering science & technology.
Power Grid Model
The global energy transition is placing new and unprecedented demands on Distribution System Operators (DSOs). Alongside upgrades to grid capacity, processes such as digitization, capacity optimization, and congestion management are becoming vital for delivering reliable services.
Power Grid Model is an open source project from Linux Foundation Energy and provides a calculation engine that is increasingly essential for DSOs. It offers a standards-based foundation enabling real-time power systems analysis, simulations of electrical power grids, and sophisticated what-if analysis. In addition, it enables in-depth studies and analysis of the electrical power grid’s behavior and performance. This comprehensive model incorporates essential factors such as power generation capacity, electrical losses, voltage levels, power flows, and system stability.
Power Grid Model is currently being applied in a wide variety of use cases, including grid planning, expansion, reliability, and congestion studies. It can also help in analyzing the impact of renewable energy integration, assessing the effects of disturbances or faults, and developing strategies for grid control and optimization.
What to expect
For the upcoming meetup we are organizing, we have an exciting lineup of activities planned:
-Insightful presentations covering two practical applications of the Power Grid Model.
-An update on the latest advancements in Power Grid -Model technology during the first and second quarters of 2024.
-An interactive brainstorming session to discuss and propose new feature requests.
-An opportunity to connect with fellow Power Grid Model enthusiasts and users.
[OReilly Superstream] Occupy the Space: A grassroots guide to engineering (an...Jason Yip
The typical problem in product engineering is not bad strategy, so much as “no strategy”. This leads to confusion, lack of motivation, and incoherent action. The next time you look for a strategy and find an empty space, instead of waiting for it to be filled, I will show you how to fill it in yourself. If you’re wrong, it forces a correction. If you’re right, it helps create focus. I’ll share how I’ve approached this in the past, both what works and lessons for what didn’t work so well.
Fueling AI with Great Data with Airbyte WebinarZilliz
This talk will focus on how to collect data from a variety of sources, leveraging this data for RAG and other GenAI use cases, and finally charting your course to productionalization.
In the realm of cybersecurity, offensive security practices act as a critical shield. By simulating real-world attacks in a controlled environment, these techniques expose vulnerabilities before malicious actors can exploit them. This proactive approach allows manufacturers to identify and fix weaknesses, significantly enhancing system security.
This presentation delves into the development of a system designed to mimic Galileo's Open Service signal using software-defined radio (SDR) technology. We'll begin with a foundational overview of both Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and the intricacies of digital signal processing.
The presentation culminates in a live demonstration. We'll showcase the manipulation of Galileo's Open Service pilot signal, simulating an attack on various software and hardware systems. This practical demonstration serves to highlight the potential consequences of unaddressed vulnerabilities, emphasizing the importance of offensive security practices in safeguarding critical infrastructure.
For the full video of this presentation, please visit: https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/2024/06/temporal-event-neural-networks-a-more-efficient-alternative-to-the-transformer-a-presentation-from-brainchip/
Chris Jones, Director of Product Management at BrainChip , presents the “Temporal Event Neural Networks: A More Efficient Alternative to the Transformer” tutorial at the May 2024 Embedded Vision Summit.
The expansion of AI services necessitates enhanced computational capabilities on edge devices. Temporal Event Neural Networks (TENNs), developed by BrainChip, represent a novel and highly efficient state-space network. TENNs demonstrate exceptional proficiency in handling multi-dimensional streaming data, facilitating advancements in object detection, action recognition, speech enhancement and language model/sequence generation. Through the utilization of polynomial-based continuous convolutions, TENNs streamline models, expedite training processes and significantly diminish memory requirements, achieving notable reductions of up to 50x in parameters and 5,000x in energy consumption compared to prevailing methodologies like transformers.
Integration with BrainChip’s Akida neuromorphic hardware IP further enhances TENNs’ capabilities, enabling the realization of highly capable, portable and passively cooled edge devices. This presentation delves into the technical innovations underlying TENNs, presents real-world benchmarks, and elucidates how this cutting-edge approach is positioned to revolutionize edge AI across diverse applications.
For the full video of this presentation, please visit: https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/2024/06/how-axelera-ai-uses-digital-compute-in-memory-to-deliver-fast-and-energy-efficient-computer-vision-a-presentation-from-axelera-ai/
Bram Verhoef, Head of Machine Learning at Axelera AI, presents the “How Axelera AI Uses Digital Compute-in-memory to Deliver Fast and Energy-efficient Computer Vision” tutorial at the May 2024 Embedded Vision Summit.
As artificial intelligence inference transitions from cloud environments to edge locations, computer vision applications achieve heightened responsiveness, reliability and privacy. This migration, however, introduces the challenge of operating within the stringent confines of resource constraints typical at the edge, including small form factors, low energy budgets and diminished memory and computational capacities. Axelera AI addresses these challenges through an innovative approach of performing digital computations within memory itself. This technique facilitates the realization of high-performance, energy-efficient and cost-effective computer vision capabilities at the thin and thick edge, extending the frontier of what is achievable with current technologies.
In this presentation, Verhoef unveils his company’s pioneering chip technology and demonstrates its capacity to deliver exceptional frames-per-second performance across a range of standard computer vision networks typical of applications in security, surveillance and the industrial sector. This shows that advanced computer vision can be accessible and efficient, even at the very edge of our technological ecosystem.
Your One-Stop Shop for Python Success: Top 10 US Python Development Providersakankshawande
Simplify your search for a reliable Python development partner! This list presents the top 10 trusted US providers offering comprehensive Python development services, ensuring your project's success from conception to completion.
Your One-Stop Shop for Python Success: Top 10 US Python Development Providers
“Yet Another BHL Presentation”: The Biodiversity Heritage Library
1. “Yet Another BHL Presentation”
The Biodiversity Heritage Library
Internet Archive
Leaders' Forum
19 October 2009
San Francisco, CA
Martin R. Kalfatovic
Smithsonian Institution Libraries
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4. American Museum of Natural History (New York)
Academy of Natural Sciences Philadelphia
California Academy of Sciences (San Francisco)
Field Museum (Chicago)
Natural History Museum (London)
Smithsonian Institution Libraries (Washington)
Missouri Botanical Garden (St. Louis)
New York Botanical Garden (New York)
Royal Botanic Garden, Kew
Botany Libraries, Harvard University
Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative
Zoology, Harvard University
Marine Biological Laboratory / Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institution
6. Education and Outreach
Smithsonian & Harvard
H
Synthesis Center
Field Museum
Species Pages & Secretariat
Smithsonian
Informatics
Marine Biological Laboratory
Missouri Botanical Garden
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9. How much is there:
Core literature pre-
1923: 100 million
pages (?)
All pre-1923: 120-
150 million pages
All literature: 280-320
million pages
13. University of Illinois
– 2 Scribe machines
Natural History Museum,
London
– 1 Scribe machine
Missouri Botanical
Garden
– Non-Scribe operation
14. Washington, DC
– 1 Scribe machine at
Smithsonian
Libraries
– 11 Scribe facility at
Library of Congress
(FedScan)
15. Now Online
More than:
40,000 volumes
16 million pages
Only 290 million to go!
Avg. monthly growth rate
1,500 volumes
600,000 pages
See you in 2048!
18. Acquiring other content ...
Researches scanning
their own work or
literature relevant to their
work
Journals that have
scanned their content, but
do not have a robust
platform to host it
19. Biodiversity Heritage Library
Permission Process
Working with non-profit publishers for
sharing with the BHL
To digitize and mount works under
copyright BHL must obtain permission
from the copyright holders.
Many biodiversity journals and
monographs are published by non-profit
institutions or learned societies whose
mission is to promote research and
learning.
Some of these institutions have not sold
their rights to commercial publishers and
are open to sharing with the BHL.
20.
21. So what? Does [fill in blank] do
that?
… and more and faster?
22. So what? Does [fill in blank] do
that?
… and more and faster?
25. An inordinate fondness for data
Access
Putting biodiversity
literature in the hands
of researchers
Set the data free
Suck it; mash it;
broadcast it
Increase
Reuse, recyle, expand
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31.
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35.
36.
37.
38. Global BHL
Based on open access
Open content
Collaboration
Shared development
39. Uh, so what's it mean
to me?
1.9 million known
species … most
described once in a
hard to find article …
wouldn't it be nice to
know more about
your neighbors ...