This document discusses the Biodiversity Heritage Library's (BHL) efforts to create a citation repository that would allow users to search and access articles from the BHL. It provides a brief history of related projects like CiteBank. It describes the current capabilities and limitations of accessing citations and full text articles through the BHL. It outlines the next steps needed to fully integrate citations and articles into the BHL by expanding the data model, developing interfaces for adding metadata, and changing how citations and articles are displayed. The goal is to support the Global Names Architecture by facilitating access to taxonomic literature.

1. The Biodiversity Heritage Library and bibliographic citations:
towards new user services in support of a Global Names
Architecture
Trish Rose-Sandler, William Ulate
Missouri Botanical Garden
2012 Annual TDWG Meeting
Beijing, China
Oct.21,2012

2. A brief history…

3. The Biodiversity Heritage Library
www.biodiversitylibrary.org

4. The Biodiversity Heritage Library

5. Genesis: “BHL Article Repository”
• Idea first introduced at TDWG 2008, Fremantle
(by BHL, many have discussed for years)
• YouTube for biodiversity articles
• Needed (need) a way to access articles in BHL
– “BHL has no articles.”
– BHL has hundreds of thousands of articles but you
can’t search for them via author, article title search
– Can find via “article coordinates” using BHL’s UI &
OpenURL resolver: Journal / Volume / Start Page / Year

6. CiteBank
• Objectives
– Create a repository for community-vetted
taxonomic bibliographies.
– Ability to ingest, display, download, and index
articles so that the BHL can operate as an article
repository.
– Provide links to content published online through
other repositories.
• Launched on December 6th 2010

7. Citations today: http://citebank.org

8. Citations Providers

9. Software Tools
Specimen Open Access
Databases Digital Libraries
Nomenclators
Commercial
Aggregators
Open Access
Publishers
Indices
International Collaborative Projects

10. Lessons Learned
• Biblio/Drupal data model insufficient for mass of data
envisioned for all biodiversity, too flat and difficult to
expand in collaboration with Biblio development
community
• Data providers want their content findable and
managed in the Biodiversity Heritage Library, not a
system alongside BHL
• Maintaining two platforms for biodiversity literature
threatens sustainability of the literature resources over
the longer term

11. Citations, Articles and Chapters in BHL

12. Global Names Architecture

13. Support citation reconciliation
.
.Linneaus, C. Species Plantarum, vol. 2 p. 971. 1753
.Linné, Carl von. Sp. Pl. Vol. 2 Page 971. 1753
.
Caroli Linnaei, Species Plantarum exhibentes plantas rite cognitas, ad genera
.relatas, cum Differentis Specificis, Nominibus Trivialibus,2:971. 1753 Selectis,
Locis Natalibus, secundum SYSTEMA SEXUALE digestas..
Synonymis
.L. Sp. Pl. 2: 971. 1753
.
Zea mays

14. Where are we?
• Articles
– Extend BHL data model to store article metadata
– Build process to harvest data from BioStor
• Create user interfaces for adding article metadata and
associated files
– Define functional requirements as improvements to
Drupal-based Citebank
– Define process flow for adding article metadata and
associated files
– Implement UI changes
• Change BHL UI to accommodate article search
• Change BHL UI to accommodate article display (TOC)

15. What is needed for a citation repository?
Admin. Interface
– IMPORT AND MAPPING TOOL
• Preview/Accept/Reject/Undo/Report on Import
• No standard schema, MODS or Bibtex
• Drag & drop GUI or mapped source and target field config.
– USER MANAGEMENT
• Self-Registration
• Admin. Approval & Deletion
• User Roles Assignment
– GLOBAL UPDATES

16. What is needed for a citation repository?
General User Interface
– IMPORT
• Upload/Preview/Accept/Reject/Undo/Report on Import
– CREATE CITATION
• By filling a Form, via BibTex
– BROWSE
• Faceted: title,author,subject, year, contributor, my citations

17. What is needed for a citation repository?
• CITATION TYPES
– Journal Article, Book Chapter, Conference Proceedings,
Conference Paper, Thesis, Government Report, Note, etc.
• OAI HARVESTING
– Harvest and serve data through OAI-PMH
• SPECIFICATIONS FOR DATA PROVIDERS PAGE
• CONTRIBUTORS PAGE
– Recognize ALL contributions
• REPORTING
– Statistics Page by Citation and Publication type
– Recent/Latest Uploads

18. Where are we going?
• Integrate BHL’s Services with ZooBank
• Authoritative list of titles in common use for
nomenclatural acts (“TL3”)
• Harvest relevant content from Mendeley
• Integrate services and interfaces with the GNUB
data model
• Interoperate with citation parsing tools & services

19. 2012 Annual TDWG Meeting
Beijing, China
October 21st, 2012
Thank you
Trish.Rose-Sandler@mobot.org William.Ulate@mobot.org
BHL Data Analyst Global BHL Project Manager
Art of Life Project Coordinator BHL Technical Director
Missouri Botanical Garden Missouri Botanical Garden