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BHL Australia
Dr Elycia WallisManager, Online CollectionsMuseum VictoriaChair, Global BHL Coordinating Committee@elyw
BHL Australia – 2014 and beyond
• To provide a digital literature service for the ALA
• To undertake new scanning projects• To participate in the global BHL
partnership
To assist other institutions who want to start scanning or uploading already scanned content
To work with ALA staff to continue to innovate with access to digital literature
To extend the collaboration in Australia and possibly New Zealand
New team
BHL Australia team at Museum Victoria: (L-R) Hayley Webster, Ely Wallis, Cerise Howard, Jim Healey, Nicole Kearney
New equipment
New cameras, lights and clamps for the BHL-Au digitisation rig. Photos by Jim Healey
Google Art Project Exhibits
https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/collection/museum-victoria?projectId=art-project
http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/collection/bhlau
Uploaded to BHL since Oct 2014• 60 volumes• 30 titles• 12334 pages
Partnerships• Australian Museum • Queensland Museum• South Australian Museum• Western Australian Museum
BHL-Au progress report
BHL-Au conference papers
Making multi-institution collaborations work – is there a secret sauce? Dr Elycia Wallis, MWA 2014
Scanning Locally, Collaborating GloballyDr Elycia Wallis, VALA 2014
A Different Type of Animal? Advocating for Natural Science ArchivesJulia Blasé et al (incl. Nicole Kearney) SAA 2015
http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/collection/artofscience
New collections on BHL• BHL Australia• Art of Science
Blog posts• BHL-Au is back! (BHL)• Art of Science (MV & BHL)• Transcribing field diaries (MV)
BHL-Au online promotion
Historic field diaries
Full of data• species’ abundance
and distribution • field conditions and
survey techniques• people, places and events
Inaccessible• hand-written• uncatalogued• unpublished• unsearchable
Transcribing field diaries
Digitisation• scanning via BHL rig
Transcription• partnership with DigiVol / ALA• custom templates and tutorials• recording of all species,
people & place names• transcription volunteers• validation volunteer
http://volunteer.ala.org.au/
Graham Brown, Victoria, 1948.
http://volunteer.ala.org.au/
Transcribing field diaries
Outcomes so far• 8 field diaries digitised
and uploaded onto DigiVol
• 6 diaries 100% transcribed (1/month)
• 5 transcriptions 100% validated
• 41 volunteers contributed
http://volunteer.ala.org.au/
Allan McEvey, Macquarie Island, 1957.
Thanks