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BHL: Purposeful Technology
“We get to use emerging technology, not just play around with it.”
Chris Freeland
Technical Director, BHL
Director of Bioinformatics, Missouri Botanical Garden
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Goals of BHL
• Unlock collections
• Connect scientists with literature
• Connect literature with users
• Connect users with other users
• Inspire
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Ingest of Materials
• From Internet Archive– Custom process, documented on BHL portal
• From Botanicus– Precursor to BHL– MOBOT’s inhouse end-to-end digital library
application
• From Others– MARCXML– Folder of sequentially named files
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Parsed Subject Headings/Tag Cloud
Subject Heading from library catalog
Expressed as MARCXML
Tag Cloud
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Google Maps API
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Raw Image Converted to text via OCRName finding via TaxonFinder Extract namesSubmit to NameBankSOAP response
Name Finding in action
with Taxonomic Intelligence…
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JPEG2000 (*.jp2) display
• RAW or TIF original => 85% .jp2
• LuraTech or Kakadu encoder– Wavelet compression
• LizardTech decoder– Tiled on the fly, cached for
performance• GSIV browser-based client
viewer– ‘AJAXian’
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Provider Integration
• Encyclopedia of Life
• Atrium Andes Biodiversity
• Wikipedia
• More to come…
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