BHL: Your 24hr Library

: Your 24hr Library

California Digital Library 25 Apr 2012

TECHNOLOGY ADVANCES

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Points we’ll cover

Development Methodology Usage Stats

APIs Data Mining

External Connections iTunes U

DOIs & Mendeley Data Challenges & Gaming

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Methodology: ���Evolutionary Prototyping

• Find a problem, code a solution, test & evaluate with staff & users, push it out to production

• Example: Fuzzy Searches for bibliographic metadata

•  Proceedings Philadelphia

•  Darwin 1859

•  Proc Soc Zool Lond Moved into production yesterday

http://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2012/04/new-improved-bhl-search-interface.html

YTD Usage stats

Darwin’s Library Launch

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BHL APIs http://biodivlib.wikispaces.com/Developer+Tools+and+API

http://biodivlib.wikispaces.com/Data+Exports

Can address & download all of BHL through our APIs

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Tropicos TitleID: 648 = BHL TitleID: 64

http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/openurl?pid=title:64&volume=10&issue=&spage=151&date=1827

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EOL

• 12,800,000 BHL pages linked to EOL

• 65,245,000 occurrences of EOL names in BHL

• Total of 95,900,000 names found < Big Data

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Pagination & Flickr Integration

public Flickr view

Direct line to EOL @chrisfreeland

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iTunes U

• Since Launch on Feb 2:

• 50,120 browses

• 1,646 subscriptions

• 6,007 downloads @chrisfreeland

DOIs

Have assigned 49,000 DOIs to BHL monographs

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Purpose of exercise • Make legacy scientific literature citable via modern systems

• Make 250+ years of scholarly communications available via new tools

• Assign contemporary identifiers to legacy literature

• DOI

•  ISBN

•  ISSN

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DOI, ISBN, ISSN, ei, ei,…uh oh… •  Ran into trouble with each agency

•  BHL isn’t a publisher

•  BHL is a consortium, not a separate legal entity

•  BHL doesn’t own all the content it serves

•  “We know we need a policy on that…”

…and on…and on…for more than 3 years…

CrossRef DOIs: path of least

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Challenge: Title Matching for Uniqueness

•  Only want 1 DOI per intellectual, citable unit

•  Differences between cataloging & publishing

•  Libraries:

•  Publishers:

<datafield tag="245" ind1="1" ind2="4"> <subfield code="a">The amoebae living in man;</subfield> <subfield code="b">a zoological monograph,</subfield> <subfield code="c">by Clifford Dobell.</subfield>

</datafield>

<title>The amoebae living in man; a zoological monograph</title>

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Challenge: ���Monographs/Series/Monographic Series

•  “Report on the Rhynchota collected by the Wollaston Expedition in Dutch New Guinea”

•  Published in 1914

•  Bound & catalogued as a monograph

•  Scanned as a monograph

•  Assigned a DOI as a monograph in BHL:http://dx.doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.13791

•  Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, vol. 20, pt. 11.

•  Presented by current publisher of that title as an article

•  Assigned a DOI as a journal article:���http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1912.tb07839x

Guess who provides free access?

Challenge: Ownership of Backfiles • Who owns public domain works?

• Some publishers consider they have ownership of backfiles for journals they currently publish

• Long running series in natural history

• Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, since 1787

• Those publishers assign DOIs to their current volumes

• BHL assigns DOIs to the public domain works we’ve digitized

Guess who is upset?

BHL DOIs ���

in ���Use

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Gaming

More than Angry Books

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