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The BHL mobilizes biodiversity content by identifying & exposing over 100 million scientific names embedded within the digitized texts. http://ow.ly/jdPin Biostor, developed by taxonomist Rod Page, extracts, annotates, & provides visualizations for data in BHL found via OpenURL http://ow.ly/jdPH6 Scientific names change through time. Using BHL & EOL data Ryan Schenk, developer of Synynyms, provides a chronological visualization of name popularity and use http://ow.ly/jdRdw Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) embodies E.O. Wilson's dream to provide a webpage for every species. BHL provides bibliographic references to EOL via OpenURL and image data through flickr: http://ow.ly/jdQUh The Biodiversity Heritage Library is an international consortium of natural history libraries and research centers dedicated to providing free access to the world’s biodiversity literature. With over 40 million pages of digitized text, the BHL is an invaluable resource for researchers worldwide. Bibliographic metadata is available for download in a variety of formats (MODS, BibTex, EndNote) for individual items, and for all items in bulk as .csv or via API Bibliographic metadata is aggregated by OCLC and is included in Serial Solution’s Summon discovery service by periodically harvesting data using OAI-PMH Metadata is provided on the page as COinS , RDFa, and in schema.org markup for search engines and tools like Mendeley and Zotero. Images are shared on flickr.com where anyone is welcome to add species name machine tags such as “taxonomy:binomial=Genus species”. EOL then harvests tagged images for display on eol.org OAI- PMH APIs OpenURL resolver Bulk data exports Microdata Biodiversity Heritage Library Content liberator Open Data Policy Bianca Crowley, Collections Coordinator, Biodiversity Heritage Library/Smithsonian Libraries Keri Thompson, Digital Projects Librarian, Smithsonian Libraries Constance Rinaldo, Librarian of the Ernst Mayr Library Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University
