The Biodiversity Heritage Library: From Local to Global

The Biodiversity Heritage LibraryFrom Local to Global

Martin R. Kalfatovic | BHL Program Director | Smithsonian LibrariesBHL Europe Final Events and Review | Berlin | 5 June 2012

Missouri Botanical Garden & BHL Pre-historyIllustrated Gardens, 1997

Smithsonian Libraries & BHL Pre-historyBiologia Centrali-American, 2004

Libraries & Laboratories2005, London

ZoBo.orgBoZo.org

NotDeadThings.org

Extinctionary.org

Or inspired by the All Species Foundation or Species 2000:

Omnibiosis.org

Vitalis.org

Allogy.org

Or more of a 18th century library

LibraryofNaturalCuriosities.org

WunderkammerBibliothekKatalogDerLebendenSachen.org

But in German …

Biodiversity Heritage Library : 2006

TIMELINE

• 2003.02 Encyclopedia of Life meeting, Telluride

• 2003.09 Smithsonian and MOBOT discuss digital collaboration

• 2005.05 Libraries and Laboratories, London

• 2006.06 Organizational and Technical meeting, Washington

• 2006.10 Technical meetings, St. Louis/San Francisco

• 2007.02 Organizational meeting, Cambridge, MA

• 2007.05 BHL Portal Launch, Washington, DC

• 2008.06 BHL Europe funding proposal to European Union

• 2009.09 BHL-China formed, Beijing• 2009.11 Pan-Arab Biodiversity Conference,

Alexandria• 2010.02 Brasilian Kick-off meeting, Sao Paulo• 2010.06 BHL-Au Kick-off meeting,

Melbourne/Canberra• 2010.09 Global BHL Technical meeting,

MBL/WHOI, Woods Hole• 2011.11 2nd Global BHL Governance meeting,

Field Museum, Chicago• 2012.04 BHL & BHL SciELO Technical

meetings, Washington, DC• 2012.06 BHL Europe Final Events & 3rd Global

Tech meeting, Berlin

Technology Library Science

Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Technology Project

Technology Project

Missouri Botanical Garden

Emilio Goeldi Museum

Naturhistorisches Museum Wien

Museum Victoria

Academy of Natural Sciences

Science Project

Science Project

Doing the Work

Whiteboards

Global data sharing requiresa social infrastructure

Global data sharing requiresa social infrastructure

Global data sharing requiresa social infrastructure

Achievements

> Digitization of biodiversity literature

> Creation of a global partnership> Engagement of the research

community

38.8+ million pages

Six Continents

~1.6 m users | 16 m page views

233 countries

BHL Africa

Thanks to the generosity of the JRS Foundation, an initial meeting with potential African BHL participants was held in Chicago (Nov 2011).

In June 2012, again with the support of the JRS Foundation, the first BHL African Organizational meeting will be held in Cape Town in conjunction with the SANBI BIMF 2012 meeting.

Over 25 participants from sub-Saharan Africa will join BHL members to discuss the parameters of a BHL Africa.

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