A Botanical Introduction to The Biodiversity Heritage Library

A Botanical Introduction toThe Biodiversity Heritage Library

Martin R. KalfatovicSmithsonian Institution Libraries

Botany & Mycology 2009Snowbird, UtahJuly 26, 2009

• 2003. Telluride. Encyclopedia of Life meeting

• February 2005. London. Library and Laboratory: the Marriage of Research, Data and Taxonomic Literature

• May 2005. Washington. Ground work for the Biodiversity Heritage Library

• June 2006. Washington. Organizational and Technical meeting

• August 2006. New York Botanical Garden. BHL Director’s Meeting.

• October 2006. St. Louis/San Francisco. Technical meetings

• February 2007. Museum of Comparative Zoology. Organizational meeting

• May 2007. Encyclopedia of Life and BHL Portal Launch. Washington DC.

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

Scanning PartnerInternet Archive

ContributorUniversity of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

ContributorCalifornia Digital Library

ContributorLibrary of Congress

Initial grant from the MacArthur and Sloan Foundations (as part of the Encyclopedia of Life grant)

Additional support from parent institutions

Supplemental grants in place for specific development (e.g. Moore Foundation for Fedora)

Additional grants being actively pursued by BHL and individual members

TheEncyclopedia of Life

How much is there:

Core literature pre-1923: 100 million pages (?)

All pre-1923: 120-150 million pages

All literature: 280-320 million pages

More than:

36,000 volumes

15 million pages

Only 290 million to go!

Avg. monthly growth rate

1,500 volumes

600,000 pages

See you in 2048!

Now Online

More statistics:1.3 million catalogue records 73% are monographs (remainder are serials at title-level) 63% is English language materialThe next most popular language (9%) is GermanAbout 30% of material was published before 1923

Marine Biological Laboratory/WHOI

– Marine monographs

– General Science

Museum of Comparative Zoology

– MCZ publications

– Herpetology monographs and serials

– Ichthyology monographs and serials

Rough Selection

University of Illinois

– Fieldiana

– Natural history of Illinois

American Museum of Natural History

– AMNH publications

– Ornithology

Natural History Museum

– NHM publications

– Major natural history general serials

Rough Selection

Botany Collections

Missouri Botanical Garden,

New York Botanical Garden,

Harvard Botany Libraries, and

Royal Botanic Garden, Kew

Smithsonian Libraries Botany

– will cooperatively develop a methodology for botanical publications and botanical collections from other BHL members will fill in gaps

Rough Selection

Smithsonian Institution Libraries

– Smithsonian publications

– Entomology collection

– Marine mammals

– Fishes

– Selected special collections materials

– Cooperate with other botanical collections

Rough Selection

Collections Coordinator on board in February 2009.

Bianca Lipscomb, based at the Smithsonian, will coordinate material selection across the BHL and contributing partners

Rough Selection

How to make THIS into 0’s and 1’s

Selection Tools:

Combined Serial list for selection of title to scan to avoid duplication of effort

Monographic “de-duping” algorithm

OCLC Collection Analysis

Mass Scanning Workflow• Bid Lists• Serials Management• Pick Lists• Packing Lists• Monographic Management• Local data flow• WonderFetch(tm)

• Return of data• Return of material• Billing

1. Select Book ~Pull from Shelf

2. Review Physically and Metadata

3. Establish viability and create Wonderfetch

4. Send to IA scanning center

5. Book is scanned & QA

6. Page images loaded

7. Derivatives created

8. Book returned to library

9. Files harvested from IA portal to BHL

10. Taxonomic Intelligence Added

11. Available through BHL

BHL Scanning

Internet Archive

• 501(c)(3) organization

• Dedicated to “Universal Access to Human Knowledge”

• Founder of the Open Content Alliance

• Provides:– Mass scanning– Archival storage of files– Image processing– Technology

development

Single Scribe Machine

built by the Internet Archive

Human operated3,500 page per shift per day

Northeast Regional Scanning Center

– 10 Scribe machines

– MBL/WHOI

– Harvard

Jersey City Facility

– 10 Scribe machines

– AMNH

– NYBG

University of Illinois

– 2 Scribe machines

Natural History Museum, London

– 1 Scribe machine

Missouri Botanical Garden

– Non-Scribe operation

Washington, DC

– 1 Scribe machine at Smithsonian Libraries

– 10 Scribe facility at Library of Congress (FedScan)

Acquiring Other

Content

What about other scanning?

• Missouri Botanical Garden Library continuing in-house scanning process

• Other BHL members also have non-Internet Archive scanning operations

• Ingest of other interested collections

Biodiversity Heritage Library Permission ProcessWorking 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.

Current Permission Agreement:The agreement is non-exclusive. The copyright holder can use the content for other purposes.

It does not involve any transfer of copyright to the BHL or its member institutions.

It “grants to the current and future member Participating Institutions of the BHL a world-wide, nonexclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sublicenseable license to digitize and use the Titles (as identified above) in connection with the BHL, including the right to make reproductions in digital form, publicly display, and disseminate the Titles via the BHL and related websites, and create derivative works in digital form based on the Titles. The scope of this license is equivalent to an open source license, which permits others to use, reproduce, supplement, modify, create derivatives, and otherwise use the Titles, for any and all non-commercial purposes, with proper attribution to the Licensor as the source.”

Process:There is room for some modification of the wording of the draft permission document. When it is finalized, BHL Director sign for the BHL and the Editor-in-chief or Chairperson of the society signs.

The process is usually very smooth. >60 titles to date, many published in the US, some of which are published in Europe and Asia.

Permissions Database

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BHL Forms Global Partnerships

BHL Europe

Biodiversity Heritage Libraries in Europe:Natural History Museum, London, UK

Narodni muzeum, Prague, CZ

Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Stiftung Öffentlichen Rechts, DE

Land Oberösterreich (Oberösterreichische Landesmuseen), AT

Hungarian Natural History Museum, HU

University of Copenhagen (Natural History Museum of Denmark), DK

Stichting Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum Naturalis, Leiden, NL

National Botanic Garden of Belgium, BE

Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, BE

Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, BE

Bibliothèque nationale de France, FR

Museum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris, FR

Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Madrid, ES

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, UK

Helsingin yliopisto, Helsinki, FI

Partners of BHL-Europe:Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, DE

Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna, AT

Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw, PL

Università degli Studi di Firenze (Museo di Storia Naturale), Florence, IT

Freie Universität Berlin (Botanic Garden & Museum), DE

Missouri Botanical Garden, USA

Smithsonian Institution, USA

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, DE

European Digital Library Foundation, NL

Angewandte Informationstechnik Forschungsgesellschaft mbH, AT

ATOS Origin Integration France, FR

Species 2000, UK

John Wiley & Sons limited, UK

More Partners

Discussions underway with the Chinese Academy of Sciences

The Atlas of Living Australia

More …

BHL Institutions – July 2009

Technical Details of the Global

BHL

But what’s this all mean

to me!?

Botanicus& the

BHL Portal

Plant Names

Specimens

Plant Names

Plant NamesSpecimensDescriptions

Plant Names

Plant Names

Citations

- Specimen- Plate or other visual image- Taxonomic description

Built from a variety of new and existing sources

Views available for varying levels of expertise from novice to expert

Legacy literature a key component of the EOL species pages

Encyclopedia of Life Species Pages

BHL Portalhttp://www.biodiversitylibrary.org

Citehttp://cite.biodiversitylibrary.org

Internet Archivehttp://www.archive.org

Ubiohttp://www.ubio.org

Links

Credits

• Chris Freeland

• Suzanne Pilsk

• Tom Garnett

• Cathy Norton

• David Remsen

• Henning Scholz

Thanks for sticking around!

A Botanical Introduction toThe Biodiversity Heritage Library

Martin R. KalfatovicSmithsonian Institution Libraries

Botany & Mycology 2009Snowbird, UtahJuly 26, 2009