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Biodiversity Heritage LibraryDuraSpace Project
Martin R. Kalfatovic | Smithsonian Institution LibrariesDuraCloud Webinar | 16 December 2009
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
>>> all BHL storage is handled by the Internet Archive
>>> 38,000+ scanned books
>>> approximately 48 terabytes of data
>>> unable to self-host
BHL Partner Libraries
BHL + >100 other libraries with open access content at archive.org
Distributed storage – Archival
Fedora-commons is an opensource repository
Accounts for all changes, so built-in version control
Provides disaster recover
Open standards to mesh withfuture file formats
Provides open sharing servicessuch as OAI-PMH
BHL is participating in the DuraSpace DuraCloud pilot
DuraSpace would provide a link to cloud providers
Pilot to show feasibility of hosting
Testing use of image server, other services in the cloud
Thanks
Martin R. Kalfatovic | Smithsonian Institution LibrariesDuraCloud Webinar | 16 December 2009
• Phil Cryer• Chris Freeland• Tom Garnett