A Mass Scanning Workflow
Discussion
Sociological aspects of a global mass scanning project
Biodiversity Heritage Library
Suzanne C Pilsk- Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Matthew Person ndash MBLWHOI Library Woods Hole
June 28 2010
Biodiversity Heritage Library
In any well-appointed Natural History Library there should be found every book and every edition of every book dealing in the remotest way with the subjects concerned One never knows wherein one edition differs from or supplements the other and unless these are on the same table at the same time it is not possible to collate them properly Moreover for accurate work it is necessary for the student to verify every reference he may find it is not enough to copy from a previous author he must verify each reference itself from the original
Charles Davies Sherborn Epilogue to Index Animalium March 1922
Charles Davies Sherborn (1861-1942)
Vision
Application
Interaction
Results
EO Wilson A single webpage for every
living organism
How do you convert THIS into 0rsquos and 1rsquos
2003 Telluride Encyclopedia of Life meeting
February 2005 London Library and Laboratory the Marriage of Research Data and Taxonomic Literature
May 2005 Washington Ground work for the Biodiversity Heritage Library
June 2006 Washington Organizational and Technical meeting
August 2006 New York Botanical Garden BHL Director‟s Meeting
October 2006 St LouisSan Francisco Technical meetings
February 2007 Museum of Comparative Zoology Organizational meeting
May 2007 Encyclopedia of Life and BHL Portal Launch Washington DC
You Meethellip and discusshellip and meethellip and discusshellip
hellipand you follow
through
American Museum of Natural History (New York)
Botany Libraries Harvard University
Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology Harvard University
Field Museum (Chicago)
Marine Biological Laboratory Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Library
Missouri Botanical Garden (St Louis)
Natural History Museum (London)
New York Botanical Garden (New York)
Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
Smithsonian Institution Libraries (Washington)
Academy of Natural Science (Philadelphia)
California Academy of Science (San Francisco)
Members
Internet Archive
California Digital Libraries
University Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Contributing Members and Partners
Institutions formed agreements quicklymass scanning work flow began
People Do The Work
Who has what
What should we scan and when
Monographs vs Serials
Series treated as separates
Can it be found and used once scanned
Initial Metadata Analysis
We have 13 million catalogue records
73 are monographs (remainder are serials at title-level)
63 is English language material The next most popular language (9) is German
About 30 of material was published before 1923
The Worker Bees
Telephone conversations
Email strings
Working documents
bhlwikispacescom
Face to face meetings
Presentations
Articles
Going beyond self expectations was the norm
worker bees inside the beehivehellip
Mass Scanning Workflow
Local data flow
Vendor data flow
WonderFetch tm
Return of data
Return of material
Quality Assurance
Billing
EOL species need
CuratorRequest
ldquogap-fillrdquofor other BHL library
Pull from stacks
Circ in ILS Preliminary metadata checkAnd physical check
Goin‟ down the rows
serial
ldquoBidrdquoon title select in picklist
The Stacks
Meta-datacheck
Preser-vationreview
Other libraryldquobidrdquo
Circ to cataloging for MARC editing
Update picklist if item record has been changedDuring cataloging touch-upCirc to scanner
Put on shipping cart generatebdquopackinglist‟ invoice
Evaluate titleNeed ishellip
pass
yes
pass
fail
fail
no
Carts delivered to scanner
Picklist databasestoresselectrejectshipstate amp suppliesitem metadatato IA
Select title in picklistupload to monograph de-duper
Duplicateyes
BibliographicData from SIRIS
noReject in picklistCirc in HorizonReturn to stacks
noReject in picklistreturn to stacks
IA scanning processUnique IA id is assignedMetadata is gathered fromSIRIS and the picklist dbAnd associated with the scanJP2000s generatedamp transformedServed on archiveorgQA is done by IA on 10
Books are returned cart contents areverified against invoice
SIL does 20 QAChecking for metadata matchingWith item scan quality etc
Updated in picklist as scannedCirc in HorizonPlace BHL sticker near barcodeReturn to Stacks
Pass QA
BHL PortalPeriodically harvestsMarcxml (bib) and itemRecords along with JP2000 fromArchiveorgTo index and displayIn the portal
yes
no
Update picklist to indicate rescan
Put on shipping cart generate bdquopackinglist‟ Invoice alert scanning center
Carts delivered to scanner
Download csv from portal with SIL barcodes Portal URLs
Send URLs to SIRISOffice for batch updates
The work-Flow Process
Select Book ~Pull from Shelf
Review Physically
and check Metadata
Establish viability and create pickpack list Wonderfetch tm
Send to IA scanning center
Monographic DeDuper
Serials Deduping
merging biddinghellipan ordering process
institutions
holdings
OCLC matching
Potential merge-dedupe alert ahead
Donrsquot press the wrong button
Indicate which records you intend to consider as a single record
Choose the more complete record
2 records merged into single record for this title
Holdings remain distinct for each institution
Potential second bid brewinghellip
Last step in the workflow
another view of the beehive
callingworker bees to the beehive
the bee-skyve
24 April 2009The following came from a public librarian in Falmouth Massachusetts
We recently were asked the question who discovered the zebra fish In searching the Encyclopedia of Life I kept seeing the phrase ldquoHamilton 1822rdquo next to the ldquodanio reriordquo Wondering who Hamilton was I searched WorldCat and discovered that Hamilton was Francis Hamilton who had published in 1822 An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges and its branches I looked at the EOL record and clicked on the Biodiversity Heritage Library link One of the links was to a Hamilton book In 1878 the book The Fishes of India was published which included a description and a image of the danio rerio Links were provided to the exact place in the text where the fish was mentioned as well as to the plate with the fish itself illustrated Not only that but I could send the patron the exact link to both pages which described her fish How remarkable it was to find this Harvard University book available so easily through the Biodiversity Heritage Library A great success for our patron and we looked like magicians bringing the book to her
Gary Anderson Professor Emeritus at the University of Southern Mississippi He used to make an annual trip to our stacks to xerox hundreds of articles at a time
ldquoThe Biodiversity Heritage Library is a valuable resource foracquiring crustacean literature At present a search there (httpwwwbiodiversitylibraryorgSearchaspxsearchTerm=pycnogonidampsearchCat=) will turn up 5 publications (one ofwhich was not contributed by the Smithsonian) Also note that the BHLhas scanned these and additional literature at the site for taxonomicterms and provides links to those documents There are 1592 hitsfor Pycnogonida It is likely that you could turn up a lot ofadditional articles within larger works that way Alternatively youcould perform searches for volumes of interest (if you know ofspecific references) to home in on the papers you want There willbe A LOT of additional material becoming available at that siterdquo
ldquoYesterday whilst reading the latest edition of The Entomologists Record I was pleased to find that early editions of this invaluable publication edited by the seminal entomologist James Tutt (no relation to Elviss drummer as far as I am aware) are available digitised [hellip]
So I went there and was amazed at what I found
They even have a blog What a fantastic projectrdquo
From the blog httpforteanzoologyblogspotcom200903fantastic-resourcehtml
[hellip]Michael an colleague researching wasps was excited that he had discovered in the Biodiversity Heritage Library a copy of an obscure 1860s bookSaussure H de amp Sichel J (1864) Catalogue des espegraveces de lanciengenre Scolia contenant les diagnoses les descriptions et la synonymie des espegraveces avec des remarques explicatives er critiques Genegraveve amp Paris Henri Georg amp V Masson et Fils pp 1ndash350
This book was not in our library probably not in Australia and almost impossible to get hold of without travelling to the northern hemisphereThanks to the BHL for their work in providing access to works of importance Michael is now able to use detailed content of this book in his work
John Tann Australian Museum
The Biodiversity Heritage Library Advancing Metadata Practices in a Collaborative Digital Library
Suzanne C Pilsk Smithsonian Institution Libraries Matthew Person MBLWHOI Library Joseph deVeer Ernst Mayr Library Museum of Comparative Zoology John F
Furfey MBLWHOI Library Martin R Kalfatovic Smithsonian Institution Libraries
AbstractThe Biodiversity Heritage Library is an open access digital library of taxonomic literature forming a single point of access to this collection for use by a worldwide audience of professional taxonomists as well as ldquocitizen scientistsrdquo A successful mass scanning digitization program one that creates functional and findable digital objects requires thoughtful metadata workflow that parallels the workflow of the physical items from shelf to scanner This article examines the needs of users of taxonomic literature specifically in relation to the transformation of traditional library material to digital form It details the issues that arise in determining scanning priorities avoiding duplication of scanning across the founding twelve natural history and botanical garden library collections and the problems related to the complexity of serials monographs and series Highlighted are the tools procedures and methodology for addressing the details of a mass scanning operation
A Mass Scanning Workflow
Discussion
Pilskssiedu
mpersonmbledu
Thanks to All Staff of the
BHL Members
Biodiversity Heritage Library
In any well-appointed Natural History Library there should be found every book and every edition of every book dealing in the remotest way with the subjects concerned One never knows wherein one edition differs from or supplements the other and unless these are on the same table at the same time it is not possible to collate them properly Moreover for accurate work it is necessary for the student to verify every reference he may find it is not enough to copy from a previous author he must verify each reference itself from the original
Charles Davies Sherborn Epilogue to Index Animalium March 1922
Charles Davies Sherborn (1861-1942)
Vision
Application
Interaction
Results
EO Wilson A single webpage for every
living organism
How do you convert THIS into 0rsquos and 1rsquos
2003 Telluride Encyclopedia of Life meeting
February 2005 London Library and Laboratory the Marriage of Research Data and Taxonomic Literature
May 2005 Washington Ground work for the Biodiversity Heritage Library
June 2006 Washington Organizational and Technical meeting
August 2006 New York Botanical Garden BHL Director‟s Meeting
October 2006 St LouisSan Francisco Technical meetings
February 2007 Museum of Comparative Zoology Organizational meeting
May 2007 Encyclopedia of Life and BHL Portal Launch Washington DC
You Meethellip and discusshellip and meethellip and discusshellip
hellipand you follow
through
American Museum of Natural History (New York)
Botany Libraries Harvard University
Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology Harvard University
Field Museum (Chicago)
Marine Biological Laboratory Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Library
Missouri Botanical Garden (St Louis)
Natural History Museum (London)
New York Botanical Garden (New York)
Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
Smithsonian Institution Libraries (Washington)
Academy of Natural Science (Philadelphia)
California Academy of Science (San Francisco)
Members
Internet Archive
California Digital Libraries
University Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Contributing Members and Partners
Institutions formed agreements quicklymass scanning work flow began
People Do The Work
Who has what
What should we scan and when
Monographs vs Serials
Series treated as separates
Can it be found and used once scanned
Initial Metadata Analysis
We have 13 million catalogue records
73 are monographs (remainder are serials at title-level)
63 is English language material The next most popular language (9) is German
About 30 of material was published before 1923
The Worker Bees
Telephone conversations
Email strings
Working documents
bhlwikispacescom
Face to face meetings
Presentations
Articles
Going beyond self expectations was the norm
worker bees inside the beehivehellip
Mass Scanning Workflow
Local data flow
Vendor data flow
WonderFetch tm
Return of data
Return of material
Quality Assurance
Billing
EOL species need
CuratorRequest
ldquogap-fillrdquofor other BHL library
Pull from stacks
Circ in ILS Preliminary metadata checkAnd physical check
Goin‟ down the rows
serial
ldquoBidrdquoon title select in picklist
The Stacks
Meta-datacheck
Preser-vationreview
Other libraryldquobidrdquo
Circ to cataloging for MARC editing
Update picklist if item record has been changedDuring cataloging touch-upCirc to scanner
Put on shipping cart generatebdquopackinglist‟ invoice
Evaluate titleNeed ishellip
pass
yes
pass
fail
fail
no
Carts delivered to scanner
Picklist databasestoresselectrejectshipstate amp suppliesitem metadatato IA
Select title in picklistupload to monograph de-duper
Duplicateyes
BibliographicData from SIRIS
noReject in picklistCirc in HorizonReturn to stacks
noReject in picklistreturn to stacks
IA scanning processUnique IA id is assignedMetadata is gathered fromSIRIS and the picklist dbAnd associated with the scanJP2000s generatedamp transformedServed on archiveorgQA is done by IA on 10
Books are returned cart contents areverified against invoice
SIL does 20 QAChecking for metadata matchingWith item scan quality etc
Updated in picklist as scannedCirc in HorizonPlace BHL sticker near barcodeReturn to Stacks
Pass QA
BHL PortalPeriodically harvestsMarcxml (bib) and itemRecords along with JP2000 fromArchiveorgTo index and displayIn the portal
yes
no
Update picklist to indicate rescan
Put on shipping cart generate bdquopackinglist‟ Invoice alert scanning center
Carts delivered to scanner
Download csv from portal with SIL barcodes Portal URLs
Send URLs to SIRISOffice for batch updates
The work-Flow Process
Select Book ~Pull from Shelf
Review Physically
and check Metadata
Establish viability and create pickpack list Wonderfetch tm
Send to IA scanning center
Monographic DeDuper
Serials Deduping
merging biddinghellipan ordering process
institutions
holdings
OCLC matching
Potential merge-dedupe alert ahead
Donrsquot press the wrong button
Indicate which records you intend to consider as a single record
Choose the more complete record
2 records merged into single record for this title
Holdings remain distinct for each institution
Potential second bid brewinghellip
Last step in the workflow
another view of the beehive
callingworker bees to the beehive
the bee-skyve
24 April 2009The following came from a public librarian in Falmouth Massachusetts
We recently were asked the question who discovered the zebra fish In searching the Encyclopedia of Life I kept seeing the phrase ldquoHamilton 1822rdquo next to the ldquodanio reriordquo Wondering who Hamilton was I searched WorldCat and discovered that Hamilton was Francis Hamilton who had published in 1822 An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges and its branches I looked at the EOL record and clicked on the Biodiversity Heritage Library link One of the links was to a Hamilton book In 1878 the book The Fishes of India was published which included a description and a image of the danio rerio Links were provided to the exact place in the text where the fish was mentioned as well as to the plate with the fish itself illustrated Not only that but I could send the patron the exact link to both pages which described her fish How remarkable it was to find this Harvard University book available so easily through the Biodiversity Heritage Library A great success for our patron and we looked like magicians bringing the book to her
Gary Anderson Professor Emeritus at the University of Southern Mississippi He used to make an annual trip to our stacks to xerox hundreds of articles at a time
ldquoThe Biodiversity Heritage Library is a valuable resource foracquiring crustacean literature At present a search there (httpwwwbiodiversitylibraryorgSearchaspxsearchTerm=pycnogonidampsearchCat=) will turn up 5 publications (one ofwhich was not contributed by the Smithsonian) Also note that the BHLhas scanned these and additional literature at the site for taxonomicterms and provides links to those documents There are 1592 hitsfor Pycnogonida It is likely that you could turn up a lot ofadditional articles within larger works that way Alternatively youcould perform searches for volumes of interest (if you know ofspecific references) to home in on the papers you want There willbe A LOT of additional material becoming available at that siterdquo
ldquoYesterday whilst reading the latest edition of The Entomologists Record I was pleased to find that early editions of this invaluable publication edited by the seminal entomologist James Tutt (no relation to Elviss drummer as far as I am aware) are available digitised [hellip]
So I went there and was amazed at what I found
They even have a blog What a fantastic projectrdquo
From the blog httpforteanzoologyblogspotcom200903fantastic-resourcehtml
[hellip]Michael an colleague researching wasps was excited that he had discovered in the Biodiversity Heritage Library a copy of an obscure 1860s bookSaussure H de amp Sichel J (1864) Catalogue des espegraveces de lanciengenre Scolia contenant les diagnoses les descriptions et la synonymie des espegraveces avec des remarques explicatives er critiques Genegraveve amp Paris Henri Georg amp V Masson et Fils pp 1ndash350
This book was not in our library probably not in Australia and almost impossible to get hold of without travelling to the northern hemisphereThanks to the BHL for their work in providing access to works of importance Michael is now able to use detailed content of this book in his work
John Tann Australian Museum
The Biodiversity Heritage Library Advancing Metadata Practices in a Collaborative Digital Library
Suzanne C Pilsk Smithsonian Institution Libraries Matthew Person MBLWHOI Library Joseph deVeer Ernst Mayr Library Museum of Comparative Zoology John F
Furfey MBLWHOI Library Martin R Kalfatovic Smithsonian Institution Libraries
AbstractThe Biodiversity Heritage Library is an open access digital library of taxonomic literature forming a single point of access to this collection for use by a worldwide audience of professional taxonomists as well as ldquocitizen scientistsrdquo A successful mass scanning digitization program one that creates functional and findable digital objects requires thoughtful metadata workflow that parallels the workflow of the physical items from shelf to scanner This article examines the needs of users of taxonomic literature specifically in relation to the transformation of traditional library material to digital form It details the issues that arise in determining scanning priorities avoiding duplication of scanning across the founding twelve natural history and botanical garden library collections and the problems related to the complexity of serials monographs and series Highlighted are the tools procedures and methodology for addressing the details of a mass scanning operation
A Mass Scanning Workflow
Discussion
Pilskssiedu
mpersonmbledu
Thanks to All Staff of the
BHL Members
Vision
Application
Interaction
Results
EO Wilson A single webpage for every
living organism
How do you convert THIS into 0rsquos and 1rsquos
2003 Telluride Encyclopedia of Life meeting
February 2005 London Library and Laboratory the Marriage of Research Data and Taxonomic Literature
May 2005 Washington Ground work for the Biodiversity Heritage Library
June 2006 Washington Organizational and Technical meeting
August 2006 New York Botanical Garden BHL Director‟s Meeting
October 2006 St LouisSan Francisco Technical meetings
February 2007 Museum of Comparative Zoology Organizational meeting
May 2007 Encyclopedia of Life and BHL Portal Launch Washington DC
You Meethellip and discusshellip and meethellip and discusshellip
hellipand you follow
through
American Museum of Natural History (New York)
Botany Libraries Harvard University
Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology Harvard University
Field Museum (Chicago)
Marine Biological Laboratory Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Library
Missouri Botanical Garden (St Louis)
Natural History Museum (London)
New York Botanical Garden (New York)
Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
Smithsonian Institution Libraries (Washington)
Academy of Natural Science (Philadelphia)
California Academy of Science (San Francisco)
Members
Internet Archive
California Digital Libraries
University Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Contributing Members and Partners
Institutions formed agreements quicklymass scanning work flow began
People Do The Work
Who has what
What should we scan and when
Monographs vs Serials
Series treated as separates
Can it be found and used once scanned
Initial Metadata Analysis
We have 13 million catalogue records
73 are monographs (remainder are serials at title-level)
63 is English language material The next most popular language (9) is German
About 30 of material was published before 1923
The Worker Bees
Telephone conversations
Email strings
Working documents
bhlwikispacescom
Face to face meetings
Presentations
Articles
Going beyond self expectations was the norm
worker bees inside the beehivehellip
Mass Scanning Workflow
Local data flow
Vendor data flow
WonderFetch tm
Return of data
Return of material
Quality Assurance
Billing
EOL species need
CuratorRequest
ldquogap-fillrdquofor other BHL library
Pull from stacks
Circ in ILS Preliminary metadata checkAnd physical check
Goin‟ down the rows
serial
ldquoBidrdquoon title select in picklist
The Stacks
Meta-datacheck
Preser-vationreview
Other libraryldquobidrdquo
Circ to cataloging for MARC editing
Update picklist if item record has been changedDuring cataloging touch-upCirc to scanner
Put on shipping cart generatebdquopackinglist‟ invoice
Evaluate titleNeed ishellip
pass
yes
pass
fail
fail
no
Carts delivered to scanner
Picklist databasestoresselectrejectshipstate amp suppliesitem metadatato IA
Select title in picklistupload to monograph de-duper
Duplicateyes
BibliographicData from SIRIS
noReject in picklistCirc in HorizonReturn to stacks
noReject in picklistreturn to stacks
IA scanning processUnique IA id is assignedMetadata is gathered fromSIRIS and the picklist dbAnd associated with the scanJP2000s generatedamp transformedServed on archiveorgQA is done by IA on 10
Books are returned cart contents areverified against invoice
SIL does 20 QAChecking for metadata matchingWith item scan quality etc
Updated in picklist as scannedCirc in HorizonPlace BHL sticker near barcodeReturn to Stacks
Pass QA
BHL PortalPeriodically harvestsMarcxml (bib) and itemRecords along with JP2000 fromArchiveorgTo index and displayIn the portal
yes
no
Update picklist to indicate rescan
Put on shipping cart generate bdquopackinglist‟ Invoice alert scanning center
Carts delivered to scanner
Download csv from portal with SIL barcodes Portal URLs
Send URLs to SIRISOffice for batch updates
The work-Flow Process
Select Book ~Pull from Shelf
Review Physically
and check Metadata
Establish viability and create pickpack list Wonderfetch tm
Send to IA scanning center
Monographic DeDuper
Serials Deduping
merging biddinghellipan ordering process
institutions
holdings
OCLC matching
Potential merge-dedupe alert ahead
Donrsquot press the wrong button
Indicate which records you intend to consider as a single record
Choose the more complete record
2 records merged into single record for this title
Holdings remain distinct for each institution
Potential second bid brewinghellip
Last step in the workflow
another view of the beehive
callingworker bees to the beehive
the bee-skyve
24 April 2009The following came from a public librarian in Falmouth Massachusetts
We recently were asked the question who discovered the zebra fish In searching the Encyclopedia of Life I kept seeing the phrase ldquoHamilton 1822rdquo next to the ldquodanio reriordquo Wondering who Hamilton was I searched WorldCat and discovered that Hamilton was Francis Hamilton who had published in 1822 An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges and its branches I looked at the EOL record and clicked on the Biodiversity Heritage Library link One of the links was to a Hamilton book In 1878 the book The Fishes of India was published which included a description and a image of the danio rerio Links were provided to the exact place in the text where the fish was mentioned as well as to the plate with the fish itself illustrated Not only that but I could send the patron the exact link to both pages which described her fish How remarkable it was to find this Harvard University book available so easily through the Biodiversity Heritage Library A great success for our patron and we looked like magicians bringing the book to her
Gary Anderson Professor Emeritus at the University of Southern Mississippi He used to make an annual trip to our stacks to xerox hundreds of articles at a time
ldquoThe Biodiversity Heritage Library is a valuable resource foracquiring crustacean literature At present a search there (httpwwwbiodiversitylibraryorgSearchaspxsearchTerm=pycnogonidampsearchCat=) will turn up 5 publications (one ofwhich was not contributed by the Smithsonian) Also note that the BHLhas scanned these and additional literature at the site for taxonomicterms and provides links to those documents There are 1592 hitsfor Pycnogonida It is likely that you could turn up a lot ofadditional articles within larger works that way Alternatively youcould perform searches for volumes of interest (if you know ofspecific references) to home in on the papers you want There willbe A LOT of additional material becoming available at that siterdquo
ldquoYesterday whilst reading the latest edition of The Entomologists Record I was pleased to find that early editions of this invaluable publication edited by the seminal entomologist James Tutt (no relation to Elviss drummer as far as I am aware) are available digitised [hellip]
So I went there and was amazed at what I found
They even have a blog What a fantastic projectrdquo
From the blog httpforteanzoologyblogspotcom200903fantastic-resourcehtml
[hellip]Michael an colleague researching wasps was excited that he had discovered in the Biodiversity Heritage Library a copy of an obscure 1860s bookSaussure H de amp Sichel J (1864) Catalogue des espegraveces de lanciengenre Scolia contenant les diagnoses les descriptions et la synonymie des espegraveces avec des remarques explicatives er critiques Genegraveve amp Paris Henri Georg amp V Masson et Fils pp 1ndash350
This book was not in our library probably not in Australia and almost impossible to get hold of without travelling to the northern hemisphereThanks to the BHL for their work in providing access to works of importance Michael is now able to use detailed content of this book in his work
John Tann Australian Museum
The Biodiversity Heritage Library Advancing Metadata Practices in a Collaborative Digital Library
Suzanne C Pilsk Smithsonian Institution Libraries Matthew Person MBLWHOI Library Joseph deVeer Ernst Mayr Library Museum of Comparative Zoology John F
Furfey MBLWHOI Library Martin R Kalfatovic Smithsonian Institution Libraries
AbstractThe Biodiversity Heritage Library is an open access digital library of taxonomic literature forming a single point of access to this collection for use by a worldwide audience of professional taxonomists as well as ldquocitizen scientistsrdquo A successful mass scanning digitization program one that creates functional and findable digital objects requires thoughtful metadata workflow that parallels the workflow of the physical items from shelf to scanner This article examines the needs of users of taxonomic literature specifically in relation to the transformation of traditional library material to digital form It details the issues that arise in determining scanning priorities avoiding duplication of scanning across the founding twelve natural history and botanical garden library collections and the problems related to the complexity of serials monographs and series Highlighted are the tools procedures and methodology for addressing the details of a mass scanning operation
A Mass Scanning Workflow
Discussion
Pilskssiedu
mpersonmbledu
Thanks to All Staff of the
BHL Members
EO Wilson A single webpage for every
living organism
How do you convert THIS into 0rsquos and 1rsquos
2003 Telluride Encyclopedia of Life meeting
February 2005 London Library and Laboratory the Marriage of Research Data and Taxonomic Literature
May 2005 Washington Ground work for the Biodiversity Heritage Library
June 2006 Washington Organizational and Technical meeting
August 2006 New York Botanical Garden BHL Director‟s Meeting
October 2006 St LouisSan Francisco Technical meetings
February 2007 Museum of Comparative Zoology Organizational meeting
May 2007 Encyclopedia of Life and BHL Portal Launch Washington DC
You Meethellip and discusshellip and meethellip and discusshellip
hellipand you follow
through
American Museum of Natural History (New York)
Botany Libraries Harvard University
Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology Harvard University
Field Museum (Chicago)
Marine Biological Laboratory Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Library
Missouri Botanical Garden (St Louis)
Natural History Museum (London)
New York Botanical Garden (New York)
Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
Smithsonian Institution Libraries (Washington)
Academy of Natural Science (Philadelphia)
California Academy of Science (San Francisco)
Members
Internet Archive
California Digital Libraries
University Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Contributing Members and Partners
Institutions formed agreements quicklymass scanning work flow began
People Do The Work
Who has what
What should we scan and when
Monographs vs Serials
Series treated as separates
Can it be found and used once scanned
Initial Metadata Analysis
We have 13 million catalogue records
73 are monographs (remainder are serials at title-level)
63 is English language material The next most popular language (9) is German
About 30 of material was published before 1923
The Worker Bees
Telephone conversations
Email strings
Working documents
bhlwikispacescom
Face to face meetings
Presentations
Articles
Going beyond self expectations was the norm
worker bees inside the beehivehellip
Mass Scanning Workflow
Local data flow
Vendor data flow
WonderFetch tm
Return of data
Return of material
Quality Assurance
Billing
EOL species need
CuratorRequest
ldquogap-fillrdquofor other BHL library
Pull from stacks
Circ in ILS Preliminary metadata checkAnd physical check
Goin‟ down the rows
serial
ldquoBidrdquoon title select in picklist
The Stacks
Meta-datacheck
Preser-vationreview
Other libraryldquobidrdquo
Circ to cataloging for MARC editing
Update picklist if item record has been changedDuring cataloging touch-upCirc to scanner
Put on shipping cart generatebdquopackinglist‟ invoice
Evaluate titleNeed ishellip
pass
yes
pass
fail
fail
no
Carts delivered to scanner
Picklist databasestoresselectrejectshipstate amp suppliesitem metadatato IA
Select title in picklistupload to monograph de-duper
Duplicateyes
BibliographicData from SIRIS
noReject in picklistCirc in HorizonReturn to stacks
noReject in picklistreturn to stacks
IA scanning processUnique IA id is assignedMetadata is gathered fromSIRIS and the picklist dbAnd associated with the scanJP2000s generatedamp transformedServed on archiveorgQA is done by IA on 10
Books are returned cart contents areverified against invoice
SIL does 20 QAChecking for metadata matchingWith item scan quality etc
Updated in picklist as scannedCirc in HorizonPlace BHL sticker near barcodeReturn to Stacks
Pass QA
BHL PortalPeriodically harvestsMarcxml (bib) and itemRecords along with JP2000 fromArchiveorgTo index and displayIn the portal
yes
no
Update picklist to indicate rescan
Put on shipping cart generate bdquopackinglist‟ Invoice alert scanning center
Carts delivered to scanner
Download csv from portal with SIL barcodes Portal URLs
Send URLs to SIRISOffice for batch updates
The work-Flow Process
Select Book ~Pull from Shelf
Review Physically
and check Metadata
Establish viability and create pickpack list Wonderfetch tm
Send to IA scanning center
Monographic DeDuper
Serials Deduping
merging biddinghellipan ordering process
institutions
holdings
OCLC matching
Potential merge-dedupe alert ahead
Donrsquot press the wrong button
Indicate which records you intend to consider as a single record
Choose the more complete record
2 records merged into single record for this title
Holdings remain distinct for each institution
Potential second bid brewinghellip
Last step in the workflow
another view of the beehive
callingworker bees to the beehive
the bee-skyve
24 April 2009The following came from a public librarian in Falmouth Massachusetts
We recently were asked the question who discovered the zebra fish In searching the Encyclopedia of Life I kept seeing the phrase ldquoHamilton 1822rdquo next to the ldquodanio reriordquo Wondering who Hamilton was I searched WorldCat and discovered that Hamilton was Francis Hamilton who had published in 1822 An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges and its branches I looked at the EOL record and clicked on the Biodiversity Heritage Library link One of the links was to a Hamilton book In 1878 the book The Fishes of India was published which included a description and a image of the danio rerio Links were provided to the exact place in the text where the fish was mentioned as well as to the plate with the fish itself illustrated Not only that but I could send the patron the exact link to both pages which described her fish How remarkable it was to find this Harvard University book available so easily through the Biodiversity Heritage Library A great success for our patron and we looked like magicians bringing the book to her
Gary Anderson Professor Emeritus at the University of Southern Mississippi He used to make an annual trip to our stacks to xerox hundreds of articles at a time
ldquoThe Biodiversity Heritage Library is a valuable resource foracquiring crustacean literature At present a search there (httpwwwbiodiversitylibraryorgSearchaspxsearchTerm=pycnogonidampsearchCat=) will turn up 5 publications (one ofwhich was not contributed by the Smithsonian) Also note that the BHLhas scanned these and additional literature at the site for taxonomicterms and provides links to those documents There are 1592 hitsfor Pycnogonida It is likely that you could turn up a lot ofadditional articles within larger works that way Alternatively youcould perform searches for volumes of interest (if you know ofspecific references) to home in on the papers you want There willbe A LOT of additional material becoming available at that siterdquo
ldquoYesterday whilst reading the latest edition of The Entomologists Record I was pleased to find that early editions of this invaluable publication edited by the seminal entomologist James Tutt (no relation to Elviss drummer as far as I am aware) are available digitised [hellip]
So I went there and was amazed at what I found
They even have a blog What a fantastic projectrdquo
From the blog httpforteanzoologyblogspotcom200903fantastic-resourcehtml
[hellip]Michael an colleague researching wasps was excited that he had discovered in the Biodiversity Heritage Library a copy of an obscure 1860s bookSaussure H de amp Sichel J (1864) Catalogue des espegraveces de lanciengenre Scolia contenant les diagnoses les descriptions et la synonymie des espegraveces avec des remarques explicatives er critiques Genegraveve amp Paris Henri Georg amp V Masson et Fils pp 1ndash350
This book was not in our library probably not in Australia and almost impossible to get hold of without travelling to the northern hemisphereThanks to the BHL for their work in providing access to works of importance Michael is now able to use detailed content of this book in his work
John Tann Australian Museum
The Biodiversity Heritage Library Advancing Metadata Practices in a Collaborative Digital Library
Suzanne C Pilsk Smithsonian Institution Libraries Matthew Person MBLWHOI Library Joseph deVeer Ernst Mayr Library Museum of Comparative Zoology John F
Furfey MBLWHOI Library Martin R Kalfatovic Smithsonian Institution Libraries
AbstractThe Biodiversity Heritage Library is an open access digital library of taxonomic literature forming a single point of access to this collection for use by a worldwide audience of professional taxonomists as well as ldquocitizen scientistsrdquo A successful mass scanning digitization program one that creates functional and findable digital objects requires thoughtful metadata workflow that parallels the workflow of the physical items from shelf to scanner This article examines the needs of users of taxonomic literature specifically in relation to the transformation of traditional library material to digital form It details the issues that arise in determining scanning priorities avoiding duplication of scanning across the founding twelve natural history and botanical garden library collections and the problems related to the complexity of serials monographs and series Highlighted are the tools procedures and methodology for addressing the details of a mass scanning operation
A Mass Scanning Workflow
Discussion
Pilskssiedu
mpersonmbledu
Thanks to All Staff of the
BHL Members
How do you convert THIS into 0rsquos and 1rsquos
2003 Telluride Encyclopedia of Life meeting
February 2005 London Library and Laboratory the Marriage of Research Data and Taxonomic Literature
May 2005 Washington Ground work for the Biodiversity Heritage Library
June 2006 Washington Organizational and Technical meeting
August 2006 New York Botanical Garden BHL Director‟s Meeting
October 2006 St LouisSan Francisco Technical meetings
February 2007 Museum of Comparative Zoology Organizational meeting
May 2007 Encyclopedia of Life and BHL Portal Launch Washington DC
You Meethellip and discusshellip and meethellip and discusshellip
hellipand you follow
through
American Museum of Natural History (New York)
Botany Libraries Harvard University
Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology Harvard University
Field Museum (Chicago)
Marine Biological Laboratory Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Library
Missouri Botanical Garden (St Louis)
Natural History Museum (London)
New York Botanical Garden (New York)
Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
Smithsonian Institution Libraries (Washington)
Academy of Natural Science (Philadelphia)
California Academy of Science (San Francisco)
Members
Internet Archive
California Digital Libraries
University Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Contributing Members and Partners
Institutions formed agreements quicklymass scanning work flow began
People Do The Work
Who has what
What should we scan and when
Monographs vs Serials
Series treated as separates
Can it be found and used once scanned
Initial Metadata Analysis
We have 13 million catalogue records
73 are monographs (remainder are serials at title-level)
63 is English language material The next most popular language (9) is German
About 30 of material was published before 1923
The Worker Bees
Telephone conversations
Email strings
Working documents
bhlwikispacescom
Face to face meetings
Presentations
Articles
Going beyond self expectations was the norm
worker bees inside the beehivehellip
Mass Scanning Workflow
Local data flow
Vendor data flow
WonderFetch tm
Return of data
Return of material
Quality Assurance
Billing
EOL species need
CuratorRequest
ldquogap-fillrdquofor other BHL library
Pull from stacks
Circ in ILS Preliminary metadata checkAnd physical check
Goin‟ down the rows
serial
ldquoBidrdquoon title select in picklist
The Stacks
Meta-datacheck
Preser-vationreview
Other libraryldquobidrdquo
Circ to cataloging for MARC editing
Update picklist if item record has been changedDuring cataloging touch-upCirc to scanner
Put on shipping cart generatebdquopackinglist‟ invoice
Evaluate titleNeed ishellip
pass
yes
pass
fail
fail
no
Carts delivered to scanner
Picklist databasestoresselectrejectshipstate amp suppliesitem metadatato IA
Select title in picklistupload to monograph de-duper
Duplicateyes
BibliographicData from SIRIS
noReject in picklistCirc in HorizonReturn to stacks
noReject in picklistreturn to stacks
IA scanning processUnique IA id is assignedMetadata is gathered fromSIRIS and the picklist dbAnd associated with the scanJP2000s generatedamp transformedServed on archiveorgQA is done by IA on 10
Books are returned cart contents areverified against invoice
SIL does 20 QAChecking for metadata matchingWith item scan quality etc
Updated in picklist as scannedCirc in HorizonPlace BHL sticker near barcodeReturn to Stacks
Pass QA
BHL PortalPeriodically harvestsMarcxml (bib) and itemRecords along with JP2000 fromArchiveorgTo index and displayIn the portal
yes
no
Update picklist to indicate rescan
Put on shipping cart generate bdquopackinglist‟ Invoice alert scanning center
Carts delivered to scanner
Download csv from portal with SIL barcodes Portal URLs
Send URLs to SIRISOffice for batch updates
The work-Flow Process
Select Book ~Pull from Shelf
Review Physically
and check Metadata
Establish viability and create pickpack list Wonderfetch tm
Send to IA scanning center
Monographic DeDuper
Serials Deduping
merging biddinghellipan ordering process
institutions
holdings
OCLC matching
Potential merge-dedupe alert ahead
Donrsquot press the wrong button
Indicate which records you intend to consider as a single record
Choose the more complete record
2 records merged into single record for this title
Holdings remain distinct for each institution
Potential second bid brewinghellip
Last step in the workflow
another view of the beehive
callingworker bees to the beehive
the bee-skyve
24 April 2009The following came from a public librarian in Falmouth Massachusetts
We recently were asked the question who discovered the zebra fish In searching the Encyclopedia of Life I kept seeing the phrase ldquoHamilton 1822rdquo next to the ldquodanio reriordquo Wondering who Hamilton was I searched WorldCat and discovered that Hamilton was Francis Hamilton who had published in 1822 An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges and its branches I looked at the EOL record and clicked on the Biodiversity Heritage Library link One of the links was to a Hamilton book In 1878 the book The Fishes of India was published which included a description and a image of the danio rerio Links were provided to the exact place in the text where the fish was mentioned as well as to the plate with the fish itself illustrated Not only that but I could send the patron the exact link to both pages which described her fish How remarkable it was to find this Harvard University book available so easily through the Biodiversity Heritage Library A great success for our patron and we looked like magicians bringing the book to her
Gary Anderson Professor Emeritus at the University of Southern Mississippi He used to make an annual trip to our stacks to xerox hundreds of articles at a time
ldquoThe Biodiversity Heritage Library is a valuable resource foracquiring crustacean literature At present a search there (httpwwwbiodiversitylibraryorgSearchaspxsearchTerm=pycnogonidampsearchCat=) will turn up 5 publications (one ofwhich was not contributed by the Smithsonian) Also note that the BHLhas scanned these and additional literature at the site for taxonomicterms and provides links to those documents There are 1592 hitsfor Pycnogonida It is likely that you could turn up a lot ofadditional articles within larger works that way Alternatively youcould perform searches for volumes of interest (if you know ofspecific references) to home in on the papers you want There willbe A LOT of additional material becoming available at that siterdquo
ldquoYesterday whilst reading the latest edition of The Entomologists Record I was pleased to find that early editions of this invaluable publication edited by the seminal entomologist James Tutt (no relation to Elviss drummer as far as I am aware) are available digitised [hellip]
So I went there and was amazed at what I found
They even have a blog What a fantastic projectrdquo
From the blog httpforteanzoologyblogspotcom200903fantastic-resourcehtml
[hellip]Michael an colleague researching wasps was excited that he had discovered in the Biodiversity Heritage Library a copy of an obscure 1860s bookSaussure H de amp Sichel J (1864) Catalogue des espegraveces de lanciengenre Scolia contenant les diagnoses les descriptions et la synonymie des espegraveces avec des remarques explicatives er critiques Genegraveve amp Paris Henri Georg amp V Masson et Fils pp 1ndash350
This book was not in our library probably not in Australia and almost impossible to get hold of without travelling to the northern hemisphereThanks to the BHL for their work in providing access to works of importance Michael is now able to use detailed content of this book in his work
John Tann Australian Museum
The Biodiversity Heritage Library Advancing Metadata Practices in a Collaborative Digital Library
Suzanne C Pilsk Smithsonian Institution Libraries Matthew Person MBLWHOI Library Joseph deVeer Ernst Mayr Library Museum of Comparative Zoology John F
Furfey MBLWHOI Library Martin R Kalfatovic Smithsonian Institution Libraries
AbstractThe Biodiversity Heritage Library is an open access digital library of taxonomic literature forming a single point of access to this collection for use by a worldwide audience of professional taxonomists as well as ldquocitizen scientistsrdquo A successful mass scanning digitization program one that creates functional and findable digital objects requires thoughtful metadata workflow that parallels the workflow of the physical items from shelf to scanner This article examines the needs of users of taxonomic literature specifically in relation to the transformation of traditional library material to digital form It details the issues that arise in determining scanning priorities avoiding duplication of scanning across the founding twelve natural history and botanical garden library collections and the problems related to the complexity of serials monographs and series Highlighted are the tools procedures and methodology for addressing the details of a mass scanning operation
A Mass Scanning Workflow
Discussion
Pilskssiedu
mpersonmbledu
Thanks to All Staff of the
BHL Members
2003 Telluride Encyclopedia of Life meeting
February 2005 London Library and Laboratory the Marriage of Research Data and Taxonomic Literature
May 2005 Washington Ground work for the Biodiversity Heritage Library
June 2006 Washington Organizational and Technical meeting
August 2006 New York Botanical Garden BHL Director‟s Meeting
October 2006 St LouisSan Francisco Technical meetings
February 2007 Museum of Comparative Zoology Organizational meeting
May 2007 Encyclopedia of Life and BHL Portal Launch Washington DC
You Meethellip and discusshellip and meethellip and discusshellip
hellipand you follow
through
American Museum of Natural History (New York)
Botany Libraries Harvard University
Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology Harvard University
Field Museum (Chicago)
Marine Biological Laboratory Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Library
Missouri Botanical Garden (St Louis)
Natural History Museum (London)
New York Botanical Garden (New York)
Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
Smithsonian Institution Libraries (Washington)
Academy of Natural Science (Philadelphia)
California Academy of Science (San Francisco)
Members
Internet Archive
California Digital Libraries
University Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Contributing Members and Partners
Institutions formed agreements quicklymass scanning work flow began
People Do The Work
Who has what
What should we scan and when
Monographs vs Serials
Series treated as separates
Can it be found and used once scanned
Initial Metadata Analysis
We have 13 million catalogue records
73 are monographs (remainder are serials at title-level)
63 is English language material The next most popular language (9) is German
About 30 of material was published before 1923
The Worker Bees
Telephone conversations
Email strings
Working documents
bhlwikispacescom
Face to face meetings
Presentations
Articles
Going beyond self expectations was the norm
worker bees inside the beehivehellip
Mass Scanning Workflow
Local data flow
Vendor data flow
WonderFetch tm
Return of data
Return of material
Quality Assurance
Billing
EOL species need
CuratorRequest
ldquogap-fillrdquofor other BHL library
Pull from stacks
Circ in ILS Preliminary metadata checkAnd physical check
Goin‟ down the rows
serial
ldquoBidrdquoon title select in picklist
The Stacks
Meta-datacheck
Preser-vationreview
Other libraryldquobidrdquo
Circ to cataloging for MARC editing
Update picklist if item record has been changedDuring cataloging touch-upCirc to scanner
Put on shipping cart generatebdquopackinglist‟ invoice
Evaluate titleNeed ishellip
pass
yes
pass
fail
fail
no
Carts delivered to scanner
Picklist databasestoresselectrejectshipstate amp suppliesitem metadatato IA
Select title in picklistupload to monograph de-duper
Duplicateyes
BibliographicData from SIRIS
noReject in picklistCirc in HorizonReturn to stacks
noReject in picklistreturn to stacks
IA scanning processUnique IA id is assignedMetadata is gathered fromSIRIS and the picklist dbAnd associated with the scanJP2000s generatedamp transformedServed on archiveorgQA is done by IA on 10
Books are returned cart contents areverified against invoice
SIL does 20 QAChecking for metadata matchingWith item scan quality etc
Updated in picklist as scannedCirc in HorizonPlace BHL sticker near barcodeReturn to Stacks
Pass QA
BHL PortalPeriodically harvestsMarcxml (bib) and itemRecords along with JP2000 fromArchiveorgTo index and displayIn the portal
yes
no
Update picklist to indicate rescan
Put on shipping cart generate bdquopackinglist‟ Invoice alert scanning center
Carts delivered to scanner
Download csv from portal with SIL barcodes Portal URLs
Send URLs to SIRISOffice for batch updates
The work-Flow Process
Select Book ~Pull from Shelf
Review Physically
and check Metadata
Establish viability and create pickpack list Wonderfetch tm
Send to IA scanning center
Monographic DeDuper
Serials Deduping
merging biddinghellipan ordering process
institutions
holdings
OCLC matching
Potential merge-dedupe alert ahead
Donrsquot press the wrong button
Indicate which records you intend to consider as a single record
Choose the more complete record
2 records merged into single record for this title
Holdings remain distinct for each institution
Potential second bid brewinghellip
Last step in the workflow
another view of the beehive
callingworker bees to the beehive
the bee-skyve
24 April 2009The following came from a public librarian in Falmouth Massachusetts
We recently were asked the question who discovered the zebra fish In searching the Encyclopedia of Life I kept seeing the phrase ldquoHamilton 1822rdquo next to the ldquodanio reriordquo Wondering who Hamilton was I searched WorldCat and discovered that Hamilton was Francis Hamilton who had published in 1822 An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges and its branches I looked at the EOL record and clicked on the Biodiversity Heritage Library link One of the links was to a Hamilton book In 1878 the book The Fishes of India was published which included a description and a image of the danio rerio Links were provided to the exact place in the text where the fish was mentioned as well as to the plate with the fish itself illustrated Not only that but I could send the patron the exact link to both pages which described her fish How remarkable it was to find this Harvard University book available so easily through the Biodiversity Heritage Library A great success for our patron and we looked like magicians bringing the book to her
Gary Anderson Professor Emeritus at the University of Southern Mississippi He used to make an annual trip to our stacks to xerox hundreds of articles at a time
ldquoThe Biodiversity Heritage Library is a valuable resource foracquiring crustacean literature At present a search there (httpwwwbiodiversitylibraryorgSearchaspxsearchTerm=pycnogonidampsearchCat=) will turn up 5 publications (one ofwhich was not contributed by the Smithsonian) Also note that the BHLhas scanned these and additional literature at the site for taxonomicterms and provides links to those documents There are 1592 hitsfor Pycnogonida It is likely that you could turn up a lot ofadditional articles within larger works that way Alternatively youcould perform searches for volumes of interest (if you know ofspecific references) to home in on the papers you want There willbe A LOT of additional material becoming available at that siterdquo
ldquoYesterday whilst reading the latest edition of The Entomologists Record I was pleased to find that early editions of this invaluable publication edited by the seminal entomologist James Tutt (no relation to Elviss drummer as far as I am aware) are available digitised [hellip]
So I went there and was amazed at what I found
They even have a blog What a fantastic projectrdquo
From the blog httpforteanzoologyblogspotcom200903fantastic-resourcehtml
[hellip]Michael an colleague researching wasps was excited that he had discovered in the Biodiversity Heritage Library a copy of an obscure 1860s bookSaussure H de amp Sichel J (1864) Catalogue des espegraveces de lanciengenre Scolia contenant les diagnoses les descriptions et la synonymie des espegraveces avec des remarques explicatives er critiques Genegraveve amp Paris Henri Georg amp V Masson et Fils pp 1ndash350
This book was not in our library probably not in Australia and almost impossible to get hold of without travelling to the northern hemisphereThanks to the BHL for their work in providing access to works of importance Michael is now able to use detailed content of this book in his work
John Tann Australian Museum
The Biodiversity Heritage Library Advancing Metadata Practices in a Collaborative Digital Library
Suzanne C Pilsk Smithsonian Institution Libraries Matthew Person MBLWHOI Library Joseph deVeer Ernst Mayr Library Museum of Comparative Zoology John F
Furfey MBLWHOI Library Martin R Kalfatovic Smithsonian Institution Libraries
AbstractThe Biodiversity Heritage Library is an open access digital library of taxonomic literature forming a single point of access to this collection for use by a worldwide audience of professional taxonomists as well as ldquocitizen scientistsrdquo A successful mass scanning digitization program one that creates functional and findable digital objects requires thoughtful metadata workflow that parallels the workflow of the physical items from shelf to scanner This article examines the needs of users of taxonomic literature specifically in relation to the transformation of traditional library material to digital form It details the issues that arise in determining scanning priorities avoiding duplication of scanning across the founding twelve natural history and botanical garden library collections and the problems related to the complexity of serials monographs and series Highlighted are the tools procedures and methodology for addressing the details of a mass scanning operation
A Mass Scanning Workflow
Discussion
Pilskssiedu
mpersonmbledu
Thanks to All Staff of the
BHL Members
American Museum of Natural History (New York)
Botany Libraries Harvard University
Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology Harvard University
Field Museum (Chicago)
Marine Biological Laboratory Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Library
Missouri Botanical Garden (St Louis)
Natural History Museum (London)
New York Botanical Garden (New York)
Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
Smithsonian Institution Libraries (Washington)
Academy of Natural Science (Philadelphia)
California Academy of Science (San Francisco)
Members
Internet Archive
California Digital Libraries
University Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Contributing Members and Partners
Institutions formed agreements quicklymass scanning work flow began
People Do The Work
Who has what
What should we scan and when
Monographs vs Serials
Series treated as separates
Can it be found and used once scanned
Initial Metadata Analysis
We have 13 million catalogue records
73 are monographs (remainder are serials at title-level)
63 is English language material The next most popular language (9) is German
About 30 of material was published before 1923
The Worker Bees
Telephone conversations
Email strings
Working documents
bhlwikispacescom
Face to face meetings
Presentations
Articles
Going beyond self expectations was the norm
worker bees inside the beehivehellip
Mass Scanning Workflow
Local data flow
Vendor data flow
WonderFetch tm
Return of data
Return of material
Quality Assurance
Billing
EOL species need
CuratorRequest
ldquogap-fillrdquofor other BHL library
Pull from stacks
Circ in ILS Preliminary metadata checkAnd physical check
Goin‟ down the rows
serial
ldquoBidrdquoon title select in picklist
The Stacks
Meta-datacheck
Preser-vationreview
Other libraryldquobidrdquo
Circ to cataloging for MARC editing
Update picklist if item record has been changedDuring cataloging touch-upCirc to scanner
Put on shipping cart generatebdquopackinglist‟ invoice
Evaluate titleNeed ishellip
pass
yes
pass
fail
fail
no
Carts delivered to scanner
Picklist databasestoresselectrejectshipstate amp suppliesitem metadatato IA
Select title in picklistupload to monograph de-duper
Duplicateyes
BibliographicData from SIRIS
noReject in picklistCirc in HorizonReturn to stacks
noReject in picklistreturn to stacks
IA scanning processUnique IA id is assignedMetadata is gathered fromSIRIS and the picklist dbAnd associated with the scanJP2000s generatedamp transformedServed on archiveorgQA is done by IA on 10
Books are returned cart contents areverified against invoice
SIL does 20 QAChecking for metadata matchingWith item scan quality etc
Updated in picklist as scannedCirc in HorizonPlace BHL sticker near barcodeReturn to Stacks
Pass QA
BHL PortalPeriodically harvestsMarcxml (bib) and itemRecords along with JP2000 fromArchiveorgTo index and displayIn the portal
yes
no
Update picklist to indicate rescan
Put on shipping cart generate bdquopackinglist‟ Invoice alert scanning center
Carts delivered to scanner
Download csv from portal with SIL barcodes Portal URLs
Send URLs to SIRISOffice for batch updates
The work-Flow Process
Select Book ~Pull from Shelf
Review Physically
and check Metadata
Establish viability and create pickpack list Wonderfetch tm
Send to IA scanning center
Monographic DeDuper
Serials Deduping
merging biddinghellipan ordering process
institutions
holdings
OCLC matching
Potential merge-dedupe alert ahead
Donrsquot press the wrong button
Indicate which records you intend to consider as a single record
Choose the more complete record
2 records merged into single record for this title
Holdings remain distinct for each institution
Potential second bid brewinghellip
Last step in the workflow
another view of the beehive
callingworker bees to the beehive
the bee-skyve
24 April 2009The following came from a public librarian in Falmouth Massachusetts
We recently were asked the question who discovered the zebra fish In searching the Encyclopedia of Life I kept seeing the phrase ldquoHamilton 1822rdquo next to the ldquodanio reriordquo Wondering who Hamilton was I searched WorldCat and discovered that Hamilton was Francis Hamilton who had published in 1822 An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges and its branches I looked at the EOL record and clicked on the Biodiversity Heritage Library link One of the links was to a Hamilton book In 1878 the book The Fishes of India was published which included a description and a image of the danio rerio Links were provided to the exact place in the text where the fish was mentioned as well as to the plate with the fish itself illustrated Not only that but I could send the patron the exact link to both pages which described her fish How remarkable it was to find this Harvard University book available so easily through the Biodiversity Heritage Library A great success for our patron and we looked like magicians bringing the book to her
Gary Anderson Professor Emeritus at the University of Southern Mississippi He used to make an annual trip to our stacks to xerox hundreds of articles at a time
ldquoThe Biodiversity Heritage Library is a valuable resource foracquiring crustacean literature At present a search there (httpwwwbiodiversitylibraryorgSearchaspxsearchTerm=pycnogonidampsearchCat=) will turn up 5 publications (one ofwhich was not contributed by the Smithsonian) Also note that the BHLhas scanned these and additional literature at the site for taxonomicterms and provides links to those documents There are 1592 hitsfor Pycnogonida It is likely that you could turn up a lot ofadditional articles within larger works that way Alternatively youcould perform searches for volumes of interest (if you know ofspecific references) to home in on the papers you want There willbe A LOT of additional material becoming available at that siterdquo
ldquoYesterday whilst reading the latest edition of The Entomologists Record I was pleased to find that early editions of this invaluable publication edited by the seminal entomologist James Tutt (no relation to Elviss drummer as far as I am aware) are available digitised [hellip]
So I went there and was amazed at what I found
They even have a blog What a fantastic projectrdquo
From the blog httpforteanzoologyblogspotcom200903fantastic-resourcehtml
[hellip]Michael an colleague researching wasps was excited that he had discovered in the Biodiversity Heritage Library a copy of an obscure 1860s bookSaussure H de amp Sichel J (1864) Catalogue des espegraveces de lanciengenre Scolia contenant les diagnoses les descriptions et la synonymie des espegraveces avec des remarques explicatives er critiques Genegraveve amp Paris Henri Georg amp V Masson et Fils pp 1ndash350
This book was not in our library probably not in Australia and almost impossible to get hold of without travelling to the northern hemisphereThanks to the BHL for their work in providing access to works of importance Michael is now able to use detailed content of this book in his work
John Tann Australian Museum
The Biodiversity Heritage Library Advancing Metadata Practices in a Collaborative Digital Library
Suzanne C Pilsk Smithsonian Institution Libraries Matthew Person MBLWHOI Library Joseph deVeer Ernst Mayr Library Museum of Comparative Zoology John F
Furfey MBLWHOI Library Martin R Kalfatovic Smithsonian Institution Libraries
AbstractThe Biodiversity Heritage Library is an open access digital library of taxonomic literature forming a single point of access to this collection for use by a worldwide audience of professional taxonomists as well as ldquocitizen scientistsrdquo A successful mass scanning digitization program one that creates functional and findable digital objects requires thoughtful metadata workflow that parallels the workflow of the physical items from shelf to scanner This article examines the needs of users of taxonomic literature specifically in relation to the transformation of traditional library material to digital form It details the issues that arise in determining scanning priorities avoiding duplication of scanning across the founding twelve natural history and botanical garden library collections and the problems related to the complexity of serials monographs and series Highlighted are the tools procedures and methodology for addressing the details of a mass scanning operation
A Mass Scanning Workflow
Discussion
Pilskssiedu
mpersonmbledu
Thanks to All Staff of the
BHL Members
Internet Archive
California Digital Libraries
University Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Contributing Members and Partners
Institutions formed agreements quicklymass scanning work flow began
People Do The Work
Who has what
What should we scan and when
Monographs vs Serials
Series treated as separates
Can it be found and used once scanned
Initial Metadata Analysis
We have 13 million catalogue records
73 are monographs (remainder are serials at title-level)
63 is English language material The next most popular language (9) is German
About 30 of material was published before 1923
The Worker Bees
Telephone conversations
Email strings
Working documents
bhlwikispacescom
Face to face meetings
Presentations
Articles
Going beyond self expectations was the norm
worker bees inside the beehivehellip
Mass Scanning Workflow
Local data flow
Vendor data flow
WonderFetch tm
Return of data
Return of material
Quality Assurance
Billing
EOL species need
CuratorRequest
ldquogap-fillrdquofor other BHL library
Pull from stacks
Circ in ILS Preliminary metadata checkAnd physical check
Goin‟ down the rows
serial
ldquoBidrdquoon title select in picklist
The Stacks
Meta-datacheck
Preser-vationreview
Other libraryldquobidrdquo
Circ to cataloging for MARC editing
Update picklist if item record has been changedDuring cataloging touch-upCirc to scanner
Put on shipping cart generatebdquopackinglist‟ invoice
Evaluate titleNeed ishellip
pass
yes
pass
fail
fail
no
Carts delivered to scanner
Picklist databasestoresselectrejectshipstate amp suppliesitem metadatato IA
Select title in picklistupload to monograph de-duper
Duplicateyes
BibliographicData from SIRIS
noReject in picklistCirc in HorizonReturn to stacks
noReject in picklistreturn to stacks
IA scanning processUnique IA id is assignedMetadata is gathered fromSIRIS and the picklist dbAnd associated with the scanJP2000s generatedamp transformedServed on archiveorgQA is done by IA on 10
Books are returned cart contents areverified against invoice
SIL does 20 QAChecking for metadata matchingWith item scan quality etc
Updated in picklist as scannedCirc in HorizonPlace BHL sticker near barcodeReturn to Stacks
Pass QA
BHL PortalPeriodically harvestsMarcxml (bib) and itemRecords along with JP2000 fromArchiveorgTo index and displayIn the portal
yes
no
Update picklist to indicate rescan
Put on shipping cart generate bdquopackinglist‟ Invoice alert scanning center
Carts delivered to scanner
Download csv from portal with SIL barcodes Portal URLs
Send URLs to SIRISOffice for batch updates
The work-Flow Process
Select Book ~Pull from Shelf
Review Physically
and check Metadata
Establish viability and create pickpack list Wonderfetch tm
Send to IA scanning center
Monographic DeDuper
Serials Deduping
merging biddinghellipan ordering process
institutions
holdings
OCLC matching
Potential merge-dedupe alert ahead
Donrsquot press the wrong button
Indicate which records you intend to consider as a single record
Choose the more complete record
2 records merged into single record for this title
Holdings remain distinct for each institution
Potential second bid brewinghellip
Last step in the workflow
another view of the beehive
callingworker bees to the beehive
the bee-skyve
24 April 2009The following came from a public librarian in Falmouth Massachusetts
We recently were asked the question who discovered the zebra fish In searching the Encyclopedia of Life I kept seeing the phrase ldquoHamilton 1822rdquo next to the ldquodanio reriordquo Wondering who Hamilton was I searched WorldCat and discovered that Hamilton was Francis Hamilton who had published in 1822 An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges and its branches I looked at the EOL record and clicked on the Biodiversity Heritage Library link One of the links was to a Hamilton book In 1878 the book The Fishes of India was published which included a description and a image of the danio rerio Links were provided to the exact place in the text where the fish was mentioned as well as to the plate with the fish itself illustrated Not only that but I could send the patron the exact link to both pages which described her fish How remarkable it was to find this Harvard University book available so easily through the Biodiversity Heritage Library A great success for our patron and we looked like magicians bringing the book to her
Gary Anderson Professor Emeritus at the University of Southern Mississippi He used to make an annual trip to our stacks to xerox hundreds of articles at a time
ldquoThe Biodiversity Heritage Library is a valuable resource foracquiring crustacean literature At present a search there (httpwwwbiodiversitylibraryorgSearchaspxsearchTerm=pycnogonidampsearchCat=) will turn up 5 publications (one ofwhich was not contributed by the Smithsonian) Also note that the BHLhas scanned these and additional literature at the site for taxonomicterms and provides links to those documents There are 1592 hitsfor Pycnogonida It is likely that you could turn up a lot ofadditional articles within larger works that way Alternatively youcould perform searches for volumes of interest (if you know ofspecific references) to home in on the papers you want There willbe A LOT of additional material becoming available at that siterdquo
ldquoYesterday whilst reading the latest edition of The Entomologists Record I was pleased to find that early editions of this invaluable publication edited by the seminal entomologist James Tutt (no relation to Elviss drummer as far as I am aware) are available digitised [hellip]
So I went there and was amazed at what I found
They even have a blog What a fantastic projectrdquo
From the blog httpforteanzoologyblogspotcom200903fantastic-resourcehtml
[hellip]Michael an colleague researching wasps was excited that he had discovered in the Biodiversity Heritage Library a copy of an obscure 1860s bookSaussure H de amp Sichel J (1864) Catalogue des espegraveces de lanciengenre Scolia contenant les diagnoses les descriptions et la synonymie des espegraveces avec des remarques explicatives er critiques Genegraveve amp Paris Henri Georg amp V Masson et Fils pp 1ndash350
This book was not in our library probably not in Australia and almost impossible to get hold of without travelling to the northern hemisphereThanks to the BHL for their work in providing access to works of importance Michael is now able to use detailed content of this book in his work
John Tann Australian Museum
The Biodiversity Heritage Library Advancing Metadata Practices in a Collaborative Digital Library
Suzanne C Pilsk Smithsonian Institution Libraries Matthew Person MBLWHOI Library Joseph deVeer Ernst Mayr Library Museum of Comparative Zoology John F
Furfey MBLWHOI Library Martin R Kalfatovic Smithsonian Institution Libraries
AbstractThe Biodiversity Heritage Library is an open access digital library of taxonomic literature forming a single point of access to this collection for use by a worldwide audience of professional taxonomists as well as ldquocitizen scientistsrdquo A successful mass scanning digitization program one that creates functional and findable digital objects requires thoughtful metadata workflow that parallels the workflow of the physical items from shelf to scanner This article examines the needs of users of taxonomic literature specifically in relation to the transformation of traditional library material to digital form It details the issues that arise in determining scanning priorities avoiding duplication of scanning across the founding twelve natural history and botanical garden library collections and the problems related to the complexity of serials monographs and series Highlighted are the tools procedures and methodology for addressing the details of a mass scanning operation
A Mass Scanning Workflow
Discussion
Pilskssiedu
mpersonmbledu
Thanks to All Staff of the
BHL Members
Institutions formed agreements quicklymass scanning work flow began
People Do The Work
Who has what
What should we scan and when
Monographs vs Serials
Series treated as separates
Can it be found and used once scanned
Initial Metadata Analysis
We have 13 million catalogue records
73 are monographs (remainder are serials at title-level)
63 is English language material The next most popular language (9) is German
About 30 of material was published before 1923
The Worker Bees
Telephone conversations
Email strings
Working documents
bhlwikispacescom
Face to face meetings
Presentations
Articles
Going beyond self expectations was the norm
worker bees inside the beehivehellip
Mass Scanning Workflow
Local data flow
Vendor data flow
WonderFetch tm
Return of data
Return of material
Quality Assurance
Billing
EOL species need
CuratorRequest
ldquogap-fillrdquofor other BHL library
Pull from stacks
Circ in ILS Preliminary metadata checkAnd physical check
Goin‟ down the rows
serial
ldquoBidrdquoon title select in picklist
The Stacks
Meta-datacheck
Preser-vationreview
Other libraryldquobidrdquo
Circ to cataloging for MARC editing
Update picklist if item record has been changedDuring cataloging touch-upCirc to scanner
Put on shipping cart generatebdquopackinglist‟ invoice
Evaluate titleNeed ishellip
pass
yes
pass
fail
fail
no
Carts delivered to scanner
Picklist databasestoresselectrejectshipstate amp suppliesitem metadatato IA
Select title in picklistupload to monograph de-duper
Duplicateyes
BibliographicData from SIRIS
noReject in picklistCirc in HorizonReturn to stacks
noReject in picklistreturn to stacks
IA scanning processUnique IA id is assignedMetadata is gathered fromSIRIS and the picklist dbAnd associated with the scanJP2000s generatedamp transformedServed on archiveorgQA is done by IA on 10
Books are returned cart contents areverified against invoice
SIL does 20 QAChecking for metadata matchingWith item scan quality etc
Updated in picklist as scannedCirc in HorizonPlace BHL sticker near barcodeReturn to Stacks
Pass QA
BHL PortalPeriodically harvestsMarcxml (bib) and itemRecords along with JP2000 fromArchiveorgTo index and displayIn the portal
yes
no
Update picklist to indicate rescan
Put on shipping cart generate bdquopackinglist‟ Invoice alert scanning center
Carts delivered to scanner
Download csv from portal with SIL barcodes Portal URLs
Send URLs to SIRISOffice for batch updates
The work-Flow Process
Select Book ~Pull from Shelf
Review Physically
and check Metadata
Establish viability and create pickpack list Wonderfetch tm
Send to IA scanning center
Monographic DeDuper
Serials Deduping
merging biddinghellipan ordering process
institutions
holdings
OCLC matching
Potential merge-dedupe alert ahead
Donrsquot press the wrong button
Indicate which records you intend to consider as a single record
Choose the more complete record
2 records merged into single record for this title
Holdings remain distinct for each institution
Potential second bid brewinghellip
Last step in the workflow
another view of the beehive
callingworker bees to the beehive
the bee-skyve
24 April 2009The following came from a public librarian in Falmouth Massachusetts
We recently were asked the question who discovered the zebra fish In searching the Encyclopedia of Life I kept seeing the phrase ldquoHamilton 1822rdquo next to the ldquodanio reriordquo Wondering who Hamilton was I searched WorldCat and discovered that Hamilton was Francis Hamilton who had published in 1822 An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges and its branches I looked at the EOL record and clicked on the Biodiversity Heritage Library link One of the links was to a Hamilton book In 1878 the book The Fishes of India was published which included a description and a image of the danio rerio Links were provided to the exact place in the text where the fish was mentioned as well as to the plate with the fish itself illustrated Not only that but I could send the patron the exact link to both pages which described her fish How remarkable it was to find this Harvard University book available so easily through the Biodiversity Heritage Library A great success for our patron and we looked like magicians bringing the book to her
Gary Anderson Professor Emeritus at the University of Southern Mississippi He used to make an annual trip to our stacks to xerox hundreds of articles at a time
ldquoThe Biodiversity Heritage Library is a valuable resource foracquiring crustacean literature At present a search there (httpwwwbiodiversitylibraryorgSearchaspxsearchTerm=pycnogonidampsearchCat=) will turn up 5 publications (one ofwhich was not contributed by the Smithsonian) Also note that the BHLhas scanned these and additional literature at the site for taxonomicterms and provides links to those documents There are 1592 hitsfor Pycnogonida It is likely that you could turn up a lot ofadditional articles within larger works that way Alternatively youcould perform searches for volumes of interest (if you know ofspecific references) to home in on the papers you want There willbe A LOT of additional material becoming available at that siterdquo
ldquoYesterday whilst reading the latest edition of The Entomologists Record I was pleased to find that early editions of this invaluable publication edited by the seminal entomologist James Tutt (no relation to Elviss drummer as far as I am aware) are available digitised [hellip]
So I went there and was amazed at what I found
They even have a blog What a fantastic projectrdquo
From the blog httpforteanzoologyblogspotcom200903fantastic-resourcehtml
[hellip]Michael an colleague researching wasps was excited that he had discovered in the Biodiversity Heritage Library a copy of an obscure 1860s bookSaussure H de amp Sichel J (1864) Catalogue des espegraveces de lanciengenre Scolia contenant les diagnoses les descriptions et la synonymie des espegraveces avec des remarques explicatives er critiques Genegraveve amp Paris Henri Georg amp V Masson et Fils pp 1ndash350
This book was not in our library probably not in Australia and almost impossible to get hold of without travelling to the northern hemisphereThanks to the BHL for their work in providing access to works of importance Michael is now able to use detailed content of this book in his work
John Tann Australian Museum
The Biodiversity Heritage Library Advancing Metadata Practices in a Collaborative Digital Library
Suzanne C Pilsk Smithsonian Institution Libraries Matthew Person MBLWHOI Library Joseph deVeer Ernst Mayr Library Museum of Comparative Zoology John F
Furfey MBLWHOI Library Martin R Kalfatovic Smithsonian Institution Libraries
AbstractThe Biodiversity Heritage Library is an open access digital library of taxonomic literature forming a single point of access to this collection for use by a worldwide audience of professional taxonomists as well as ldquocitizen scientistsrdquo A successful mass scanning digitization program one that creates functional and findable digital objects requires thoughtful metadata workflow that parallels the workflow of the physical items from shelf to scanner This article examines the needs of users of taxonomic literature specifically in relation to the transformation of traditional library material to digital form It details the issues that arise in determining scanning priorities avoiding duplication of scanning across the founding twelve natural history and botanical garden library collections and the problems related to the complexity of serials monographs and series Highlighted are the tools procedures and methodology for addressing the details of a mass scanning operation
A Mass Scanning Workflow
Discussion
Pilskssiedu
mpersonmbledu
Thanks to All Staff of the
BHL Members
People Do The Work
Who has what
What should we scan and when
Monographs vs Serials
Series treated as separates
Can it be found and used once scanned
Initial Metadata Analysis
We have 13 million catalogue records
73 are monographs (remainder are serials at title-level)
63 is English language material The next most popular language (9) is German
About 30 of material was published before 1923
The Worker Bees
Telephone conversations
Email strings
Working documents
bhlwikispacescom
Face to face meetings
Presentations
Articles
Going beyond self expectations was the norm
worker bees inside the beehivehellip
Mass Scanning Workflow
Local data flow
Vendor data flow
WonderFetch tm
Return of data
Return of material
Quality Assurance
Billing
EOL species need
CuratorRequest
ldquogap-fillrdquofor other BHL library
Pull from stacks
Circ in ILS Preliminary metadata checkAnd physical check
Goin‟ down the rows
serial
ldquoBidrdquoon title select in picklist
The Stacks
Meta-datacheck
Preser-vationreview
Other libraryldquobidrdquo
Circ to cataloging for MARC editing
Update picklist if item record has been changedDuring cataloging touch-upCirc to scanner
Put on shipping cart generatebdquopackinglist‟ invoice
Evaluate titleNeed ishellip
pass
yes
pass
fail
fail
no
Carts delivered to scanner
Picklist databasestoresselectrejectshipstate amp suppliesitem metadatato IA
Select title in picklistupload to monograph de-duper
Duplicateyes
BibliographicData from SIRIS
noReject in picklistCirc in HorizonReturn to stacks
noReject in picklistreturn to stacks
IA scanning processUnique IA id is assignedMetadata is gathered fromSIRIS and the picklist dbAnd associated with the scanJP2000s generatedamp transformedServed on archiveorgQA is done by IA on 10
Books are returned cart contents areverified against invoice
SIL does 20 QAChecking for metadata matchingWith item scan quality etc
Updated in picklist as scannedCirc in HorizonPlace BHL sticker near barcodeReturn to Stacks
Pass QA
BHL PortalPeriodically harvestsMarcxml (bib) and itemRecords along with JP2000 fromArchiveorgTo index and displayIn the portal
yes
no
Update picklist to indicate rescan
Put on shipping cart generate bdquopackinglist‟ Invoice alert scanning center
Carts delivered to scanner
Download csv from portal with SIL barcodes Portal URLs
Send URLs to SIRISOffice for batch updates
The work-Flow Process
Select Book ~Pull from Shelf
Review Physically
and check Metadata
Establish viability and create pickpack list Wonderfetch tm
Send to IA scanning center
Monographic DeDuper
Serials Deduping
merging biddinghellipan ordering process
institutions
holdings
OCLC matching
Potential merge-dedupe alert ahead
Donrsquot press the wrong button
Indicate which records you intend to consider as a single record
Choose the more complete record
2 records merged into single record for this title
Holdings remain distinct for each institution
Potential second bid brewinghellip
Last step in the workflow
another view of the beehive
callingworker bees to the beehive
the bee-skyve
24 April 2009The following came from a public librarian in Falmouth Massachusetts
We recently were asked the question who discovered the zebra fish In searching the Encyclopedia of Life I kept seeing the phrase ldquoHamilton 1822rdquo next to the ldquodanio reriordquo Wondering who Hamilton was I searched WorldCat and discovered that Hamilton was Francis Hamilton who had published in 1822 An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges and its branches I looked at the EOL record and clicked on the Biodiversity Heritage Library link One of the links was to a Hamilton book In 1878 the book The Fishes of India was published which included a description and a image of the danio rerio Links were provided to the exact place in the text where the fish was mentioned as well as to the plate with the fish itself illustrated Not only that but I could send the patron the exact link to both pages which described her fish How remarkable it was to find this Harvard University book available so easily through the Biodiversity Heritage Library A great success for our patron and we looked like magicians bringing the book to her
Gary Anderson Professor Emeritus at the University of Southern Mississippi He used to make an annual trip to our stacks to xerox hundreds of articles at a time
ldquoThe Biodiversity Heritage Library is a valuable resource foracquiring crustacean literature At present a search there (httpwwwbiodiversitylibraryorgSearchaspxsearchTerm=pycnogonidampsearchCat=) will turn up 5 publications (one ofwhich was not contributed by the Smithsonian) Also note that the BHLhas scanned these and additional literature at the site for taxonomicterms and provides links to those documents There are 1592 hitsfor Pycnogonida It is likely that you could turn up a lot ofadditional articles within larger works that way Alternatively youcould perform searches for volumes of interest (if you know ofspecific references) to home in on the papers you want There willbe A LOT of additional material becoming available at that siterdquo
ldquoYesterday whilst reading the latest edition of The Entomologists Record I was pleased to find that early editions of this invaluable publication edited by the seminal entomologist James Tutt (no relation to Elviss drummer as far as I am aware) are available digitised [hellip]
So I went there and was amazed at what I found
They even have a blog What a fantastic projectrdquo
From the blog httpforteanzoologyblogspotcom200903fantastic-resourcehtml
[hellip]Michael an colleague researching wasps was excited that he had discovered in the Biodiversity Heritage Library a copy of an obscure 1860s bookSaussure H de amp Sichel J (1864) Catalogue des espegraveces de lanciengenre Scolia contenant les diagnoses les descriptions et la synonymie des espegraveces avec des remarques explicatives er critiques Genegraveve amp Paris Henri Georg amp V Masson et Fils pp 1ndash350
This book was not in our library probably not in Australia and almost impossible to get hold of without travelling to the northern hemisphereThanks to the BHL for their work in providing access to works of importance Michael is now able to use detailed content of this book in his work
John Tann Australian Museum
The Biodiversity Heritage Library Advancing Metadata Practices in a Collaborative Digital Library
Suzanne C Pilsk Smithsonian Institution Libraries Matthew Person MBLWHOI Library Joseph deVeer Ernst Mayr Library Museum of Comparative Zoology John F
Furfey MBLWHOI Library Martin R Kalfatovic Smithsonian Institution Libraries
AbstractThe Biodiversity Heritage Library is an open access digital library of taxonomic literature forming a single point of access to this collection for use by a worldwide audience of professional taxonomists as well as ldquocitizen scientistsrdquo A successful mass scanning digitization program one that creates functional and findable digital objects requires thoughtful metadata workflow that parallels the workflow of the physical items from shelf to scanner This article examines the needs of users of taxonomic literature specifically in relation to the transformation of traditional library material to digital form It details the issues that arise in determining scanning priorities avoiding duplication of scanning across the founding twelve natural history and botanical garden library collections and the problems related to the complexity of serials monographs and series Highlighted are the tools procedures and methodology for addressing the details of a mass scanning operation
A Mass Scanning Workflow
Discussion
Pilskssiedu
mpersonmbledu
Thanks to All Staff of the
BHL Members
Who has what
What should we scan and when
Monographs vs Serials
Series treated as separates
Can it be found and used once scanned
Initial Metadata Analysis
We have 13 million catalogue records
73 are monographs (remainder are serials at title-level)
63 is English language material The next most popular language (9) is German
About 30 of material was published before 1923
The Worker Bees
Telephone conversations
Email strings
Working documents
bhlwikispacescom
Face to face meetings
Presentations
Articles
Going beyond self expectations was the norm
worker bees inside the beehivehellip
Mass Scanning Workflow
Local data flow
Vendor data flow
WonderFetch tm
Return of data
Return of material
Quality Assurance
Billing
EOL species need
CuratorRequest
ldquogap-fillrdquofor other BHL library
Pull from stacks
Circ in ILS Preliminary metadata checkAnd physical check
Goin‟ down the rows
serial
ldquoBidrdquoon title select in picklist
The Stacks
Meta-datacheck
Preser-vationreview
Other libraryldquobidrdquo
Circ to cataloging for MARC editing
Update picklist if item record has been changedDuring cataloging touch-upCirc to scanner
Put on shipping cart generatebdquopackinglist‟ invoice
Evaluate titleNeed ishellip
pass
yes
pass
fail
fail
no
Carts delivered to scanner
Picklist databasestoresselectrejectshipstate amp suppliesitem metadatato IA
Select title in picklistupload to monograph de-duper
Duplicateyes
BibliographicData from SIRIS
noReject in picklistCirc in HorizonReturn to stacks
noReject in picklistreturn to stacks
IA scanning processUnique IA id is assignedMetadata is gathered fromSIRIS and the picklist dbAnd associated with the scanJP2000s generatedamp transformedServed on archiveorgQA is done by IA on 10
Books are returned cart contents areverified against invoice
SIL does 20 QAChecking for metadata matchingWith item scan quality etc
Updated in picklist as scannedCirc in HorizonPlace BHL sticker near barcodeReturn to Stacks
Pass QA
BHL PortalPeriodically harvestsMarcxml (bib) and itemRecords along with JP2000 fromArchiveorgTo index and displayIn the portal
yes
no
Update picklist to indicate rescan
Put on shipping cart generate bdquopackinglist‟ Invoice alert scanning center
Carts delivered to scanner
Download csv from portal with SIL barcodes Portal URLs
Send URLs to SIRISOffice for batch updates
The work-Flow Process
Select Book ~Pull from Shelf
Review Physically
and check Metadata
Establish viability and create pickpack list Wonderfetch tm
Send to IA scanning center
Monographic DeDuper
Serials Deduping
merging biddinghellipan ordering process
institutions
holdings
OCLC matching
Potential merge-dedupe alert ahead
Donrsquot press the wrong button
Indicate which records you intend to consider as a single record
Choose the more complete record
2 records merged into single record for this title
Holdings remain distinct for each institution
Potential second bid brewinghellip
Last step in the workflow
another view of the beehive
callingworker bees to the beehive
the bee-skyve
24 April 2009The following came from a public librarian in Falmouth Massachusetts
We recently were asked the question who discovered the zebra fish In searching the Encyclopedia of Life I kept seeing the phrase ldquoHamilton 1822rdquo next to the ldquodanio reriordquo Wondering who Hamilton was I searched WorldCat and discovered that Hamilton was Francis Hamilton who had published in 1822 An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges and its branches I looked at the EOL record and clicked on the Biodiversity Heritage Library link One of the links was to a Hamilton book In 1878 the book The Fishes of India was published which included a description and a image of the danio rerio Links were provided to the exact place in the text where the fish was mentioned as well as to the plate with the fish itself illustrated Not only that but I could send the patron the exact link to both pages which described her fish How remarkable it was to find this Harvard University book available so easily through the Biodiversity Heritage Library A great success for our patron and we looked like magicians bringing the book to her
Gary Anderson Professor Emeritus at the University of Southern Mississippi He used to make an annual trip to our stacks to xerox hundreds of articles at a time
ldquoThe Biodiversity Heritage Library is a valuable resource foracquiring crustacean literature At present a search there (httpwwwbiodiversitylibraryorgSearchaspxsearchTerm=pycnogonidampsearchCat=) will turn up 5 publications (one ofwhich was not contributed by the Smithsonian) Also note that the BHLhas scanned these and additional literature at the site for taxonomicterms and provides links to those documents There are 1592 hitsfor Pycnogonida It is likely that you could turn up a lot ofadditional articles within larger works that way Alternatively youcould perform searches for volumes of interest (if you know ofspecific references) to home in on the papers you want There willbe A LOT of additional material becoming available at that siterdquo
ldquoYesterday whilst reading the latest edition of The Entomologists Record I was pleased to find that early editions of this invaluable publication edited by the seminal entomologist James Tutt (no relation to Elviss drummer as far as I am aware) are available digitised [hellip]
So I went there and was amazed at what I found
They even have a blog What a fantastic projectrdquo
From the blog httpforteanzoologyblogspotcom200903fantastic-resourcehtml
[hellip]Michael an colleague researching wasps was excited that he had discovered in the Biodiversity Heritage Library a copy of an obscure 1860s bookSaussure H de amp Sichel J (1864) Catalogue des espegraveces de lanciengenre Scolia contenant les diagnoses les descriptions et la synonymie des espegraveces avec des remarques explicatives er critiques Genegraveve amp Paris Henri Georg amp V Masson et Fils pp 1ndash350
This book was not in our library probably not in Australia and almost impossible to get hold of without travelling to the northern hemisphereThanks to the BHL for their work in providing access to works of importance Michael is now able to use detailed content of this book in his work
John Tann Australian Museum
The Biodiversity Heritage Library Advancing Metadata Practices in a Collaborative Digital Library
Suzanne C Pilsk Smithsonian Institution Libraries Matthew Person MBLWHOI Library Joseph deVeer Ernst Mayr Library Museum of Comparative Zoology John F
Furfey MBLWHOI Library Martin R Kalfatovic Smithsonian Institution Libraries
AbstractThe Biodiversity Heritage Library is an open access digital library of taxonomic literature forming a single point of access to this collection for use by a worldwide audience of professional taxonomists as well as ldquocitizen scientistsrdquo A successful mass scanning digitization program one that creates functional and findable digital objects requires thoughtful metadata workflow that parallels the workflow of the physical items from shelf to scanner This article examines the needs of users of taxonomic literature specifically in relation to the transformation of traditional library material to digital form It details the issues that arise in determining scanning priorities avoiding duplication of scanning across the founding twelve natural history and botanical garden library collections and the problems related to the complexity of serials monographs and series Highlighted are the tools procedures and methodology for addressing the details of a mass scanning operation
A Mass Scanning Workflow
Discussion
Pilskssiedu
mpersonmbledu
Thanks to All Staff of the
BHL Members
Initial Metadata Analysis
We have 13 million catalogue records
73 are monographs (remainder are serials at title-level)
63 is English language material The next most popular language (9) is German
About 30 of material was published before 1923
The Worker Bees
Telephone conversations
Email strings
Working documents
bhlwikispacescom
Face to face meetings
Presentations
Articles
Going beyond self expectations was the norm
worker bees inside the beehivehellip
Mass Scanning Workflow
Local data flow
Vendor data flow
WonderFetch tm
Return of data
Return of material
Quality Assurance
Billing
EOL species need
CuratorRequest
ldquogap-fillrdquofor other BHL library
Pull from stacks
Circ in ILS Preliminary metadata checkAnd physical check
Goin‟ down the rows
serial
ldquoBidrdquoon title select in picklist
The Stacks
Meta-datacheck
Preser-vationreview
Other libraryldquobidrdquo
Circ to cataloging for MARC editing
Update picklist if item record has been changedDuring cataloging touch-upCirc to scanner
Put on shipping cart generatebdquopackinglist‟ invoice
Evaluate titleNeed ishellip
pass
yes
pass
fail
fail
no
Carts delivered to scanner
Picklist databasestoresselectrejectshipstate amp suppliesitem metadatato IA
Select title in picklistupload to monograph de-duper
Duplicateyes
BibliographicData from SIRIS
noReject in picklistCirc in HorizonReturn to stacks
noReject in picklistreturn to stacks
IA scanning processUnique IA id is assignedMetadata is gathered fromSIRIS and the picklist dbAnd associated with the scanJP2000s generatedamp transformedServed on archiveorgQA is done by IA on 10
Books are returned cart contents areverified against invoice
SIL does 20 QAChecking for metadata matchingWith item scan quality etc
Updated in picklist as scannedCirc in HorizonPlace BHL sticker near barcodeReturn to Stacks
Pass QA
BHL PortalPeriodically harvestsMarcxml (bib) and itemRecords along with JP2000 fromArchiveorgTo index and displayIn the portal
yes
no
Update picklist to indicate rescan
Put on shipping cart generate bdquopackinglist‟ Invoice alert scanning center
Carts delivered to scanner
Download csv from portal with SIL barcodes Portal URLs
Send URLs to SIRISOffice for batch updates
The work-Flow Process
Select Book ~Pull from Shelf
Review Physically
and check Metadata
Establish viability and create pickpack list Wonderfetch tm
Send to IA scanning center
Monographic DeDuper
Serials Deduping
merging biddinghellipan ordering process
institutions
holdings
OCLC matching
Potential merge-dedupe alert ahead
Donrsquot press the wrong button
Indicate which records you intend to consider as a single record
Choose the more complete record
2 records merged into single record for this title
Holdings remain distinct for each institution
Potential second bid brewinghellip
Last step in the workflow
another view of the beehive
callingworker bees to the beehive
the bee-skyve
24 April 2009The following came from a public librarian in Falmouth Massachusetts
We recently were asked the question who discovered the zebra fish In searching the Encyclopedia of Life I kept seeing the phrase ldquoHamilton 1822rdquo next to the ldquodanio reriordquo Wondering who Hamilton was I searched WorldCat and discovered that Hamilton was Francis Hamilton who had published in 1822 An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges and its branches I looked at the EOL record and clicked on the Biodiversity Heritage Library link One of the links was to a Hamilton book In 1878 the book The Fishes of India was published which included a description and a image of the danio rerio Links were provided to the exact place in the text where the fish was mentioned as well as to the plate with the fish itself illustrated Not only that but I could send the patron the exact link to both pages which described her fish How remarkable it was to find this Harvard University book available so easily through the Biodiversity Heritage Library A great success for our patron and we looked like magicians bringing the book to her
Gary Anderson Professor Emeritus at the University of Southern Mississippi He used to make an annual trip to our stacks to xerox hundreds of articles at a time
ldquoThe Biodiversity Heritage Library is a valuable resource foracquiring crustacean literature At present a search there (httpwwwbiodiversitylibraryorgSearchaspxsearchTerm=pycnogonidampsearchCat=) will turn up 5 publications (one ofwhich was not contributed by the Smithsonian) Also note that the BHLhas scanned these and additional literature at the site for taxonomicterms and provides links to those documents There are 1592 hitsfor Pycnogonida It is likely that you could turn up a lot ofadditional articles within larger works that way Alternatively youcould perform searches for volumes of interest (if you know ofspecific references) to home in on the papers you want There willbe A LOT of additional material becoming available at that siterdquo
ldquoYesterday whilst reading the latest edition of The Entomologists Record I was pleased to find that early editions of this invaluable publication edited by the seminal entomologist James Tutt (no relation to Elviss drummer as far as I am aware) are available digitised [hellip]
So I went there and was amazed at what I found
They even have a blog What a fantastic projectrdquo
From the blog httpforteanzoologyblogspotcom200903fantastic-resourcehtml
[hellip]Michael an colleague researching wasps was excited that he had discovered in the Biodiversity Heritage Library a copy of an obscure 1860s bookSaussure H de amp Sichel J (1864) Catalogue des espegraveces de lanciengenre Scolia contenant les diagnoses les descriptions et la synonymie des espegraveces avec des remarques explicatives er critiques Genegraveve amp Paris Henri Georg amp V Masson et Fils pp 1ndash350
This book was not in our library probably not in Australia and almost impossible to get hold of without travelling to the northern hemisphereThanks to the BHL for their work in providing access to works of importance Michael is now able to use detailed content of this book in his work
John Tann Australian Museum
The Biodiversity Heritage Library Advancing Metadata Practices in a Collaborative Digital Library
Suzanne C Pilsk Smithsonian Institution Libraries Matthew Person MBLWHOI Library Joseph deVeer Ernst Mayr Library Museum of Comparative Zoology John F
Furfey MBLWHOI Library Martin R Kalfatovic Smithsonian Institution Libraries
AbstractThe Biodiversity Heritage Library is an open access digital library of taxonomic literature forming a single point of access to this collection for use by a worldwide audience of professional taxonomists as well as ldquocitizen scientistsrdquo A successful mass scanning digitization program one that creates functional and findable digital objects requires thoughtful metadata workflow that parallels the workflow of the physical items from shelf to scanner This article examines the needs of users of taxonomic literature specifically in relation to the transformation of traditional library material to digital form It details the issues that arise in determining scanning priorities avoiding duplication of scanning across the founding twelve natural history and botanical garden library collections and the problems related to the complexity of serials monographs and series Highlighted are the tools procedures and methodology for addressing the details of a mass scanning operation
A Mass Scanning Workflow
Discussion
Pilskssiedu
mpersonmbledu
Thanks to All Staff of the
BHL Members
The Worker Bees
Telephone conversations
Email strings
Working documents
bhlwikispacescom
Face to face meetings
Presentations
Articles
Going beyond self expectations was the norm
worker bees inside the beehivehellip
Mass Scanning Workflow
Local data flow
Vendor data flow
WonderFetch tm
Return of data
Return of material
Quality Assurance
Billing
EOL species need
CuratorRequest
ldquogap-fillrdquofor other BHL library
Pull from stacks
Circ in ILS Preliminary metadata checkAnd physical check
Goin‟ down the rows
serial
ldquoBidrdquoon title select in picklist
The Stacks
Meta-datacheck
Preser-vationreview
Other libraryldquobidrdquo
Circ to cataloging for MARC editing
Update picklist if item record has been changedDuring cataloging touch-upCirc to scanner
Put on shipping cart generatebdquopackinglist‟ invoice
Evaluate titleNeed ishellip
pass
yes
pass
fail
fail
no
Carts delivered to scanner
Picklist databasestoresselectrejectshipstate amp suppliesitem metadatato IA
Select title in picklistupload to monograph de-duper
Duplicateyes
BibliographicData from SIRIS
noReject in picklistCirc in HorizonReturn to stacks
noReject in picklistreturn to stacks
IA scanning processUnique IA id is assignedMetadata is gathered fromSIRIS and the picklist dbAnd associated with the scanJP2000s generatedamp transformedServed on archiveorgQA is done by IA on 10
Books are returned cart contents areverified against invoice
SIL does 20 QAChecking for metadata matchingWith item scan quality etc
Updated in picklist as scannedCirc in HorizonPlace BHL sticker near barcodeReturn to Stacks
Pass QA
BHL PortalPeriodically harvestsMarcxml (bib) and itemRecords along with JP2000 fromArchiveorgTo index and displayIn the portal
yes
no
Update picklist to indicate rescan
Put on shipping cart generate bdquopackinglist‟ Invoice alert scanning center
Carts delivered to scanner
Download csv from portal with SIL barcodes Portal URLs
Send URLs to SIRISOffice for batch updates
The work-Flow Process
Select Book ~Pull from Shelf
Review Physically
and check Metadata
Establish viability and create pickpack list Wonderfetch tm
Send to IA scanning center
Monographic DeDuper
Serials Deduping
merging biddinghellipan ordering process
institutions
holdings
OCLC matching
Potential merge-dedupe alert ahead
Donrsquot press the wrong button
Indicate which records you intend to consider as a single record
Choose the more complete record
2 records merged into single record for this title
Holdings remain distinct for each institution
Potential second bid brewinghellip
Last step in the workflow
another view of the beehive
callingworker bees to the beehive
the bee-skyve
24 April 2009The following came from a public librarian in Falmouth Massachusetts
We recently were asked the question who discovered the zebra fish In searching the Encyclopedia of Life I kept seeing the phrase ldquoHamilton 1822rdquo next to the ldquodanio reriordquo Wondering who Hamilton was I searched WorldCat and discovered that Hamilton was Francis Hamilton who had published in 1822 An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges and its branches I looked at the EOL record and clicked on the Biodiversity Heritage Library link One of the links was to a Hamilton book In 1878 the book The Fishes of India was published which included a description and a image of the danio rerio Links were provided to the exact place in the text where the fish was mentioned as well as to the plate with the fish itself illustrated Not only that but I could send the patron the exact link to both pages which described her fish How remarkable it was to find this Harvard University book available so easily through the Biodiversity Heritage Library A great success for our patron and we looked like magicians bringing the book to her
Gary Anderson Professor Emeritus at the University of Southern Mississippi He used to make an annual trip to our stacks to xerox hundreds of articles at a time
ldquoThe Biodiversity Heritage Library is a valuable resource foracquiring crustacean literature At present a search there (httpwwwbiodiversitylibraryorgSearchaspxsearchTerm=pycnogonidampsearchCat=) will turn up 5 publications (one ofwhich was not contributed by the Smithsonian) Also note that the BHLhas scanned these and additional literature at the site for taxonomicterms and provides links to those documents There are 1592 hitsfor Pycnogonida It is likely that you could turn up a lot ofadditional articles within larger works that way Alternatively youcould perform searches for volumes of interest (if you know ofspecific references) to home in on the papers you want There willbe A LOT of additional material becoming available at that siterdquo
ldquoYesterday whilst reading the latest edition of The Entomologists Record I was pleased to find that early editions of this invaluable publication edited by the seminal entomologist James Tutt (no relation to Elviss drummer as far as I am aware) are available digitised [hellip]
So I went there and was amazed at what I found
They even have a blog What a fantastic projectrdquo
From the blog httpforteanzoologyblogspotcom200903fantastic-resourcehtml
[hellip]Michael an colleague researching wasps was excited that he had discovered in the Biodiversity Heritage Library a copy of an obscure 1860s bookSaussure H de amp Sichel J (1864) Catalogue des espegraveces de lanciengenre Scolia contenant les diagnoses les descriptions et la synonymie des espegraveces avec des remarques explicatives er critiques Genegraveve amp Paris Henri Georg amp V Masson et Fils pp 1ndash350
This book was not in our library probably not in Australia and almost impossible to get hold of without travelling to the northern hemisphereThanks to the BHL for their work in providing access to works of importance Michael is now able to use detailed content of this book in his work
John Tann Australian Museum
The Biodiversity Heritage Library Advancing Metadata Practices in a Collaborative Digital Library
Suzanne C Pilsk Smithsonian Institution Libraries Matthew Person MBLWHOI Library Joseph deVeer Ernst Mayr Library Museum of Comparative Zoology John F
Furfey MBLWHOI Library Martin R Kalfatovic Smithsonian Institution Libraries
AbstractThe Biodiversity Heritage Library is an open access digital library of taxonomic literature forming a single point of access to this collection for use by a worldwide audience of professional taxonomists as well as ldquocitizen scientistsrdquo A successful mass scanning digitization program one that creates functional and findable digital objects requires thoughtful metadata workflow that parallels the workflow of the physical items from shelf to scanner This article examines the needs of users of taxonomic literature specifically in relation to the transformation of traditional library material to digital form It details the issues that arise in determining scanning priorities avoiding duplication of scanning across the founding twelve natural history and botanical garden library collections and the problems related to the complexity of serials monographs and series Highlighted are the tools procedures and methodology for addressing the details of a mass scanning operation
A Mass Scanning Workflow
Discussion
Pilskssiedu
mpersonmbledu
Thanks to All Staff of the
BHL Members
worker bees inside the beehivehellip
Mass Scanning Workflow
Local data flow
Vendor data flow
WonderFetch tm
Return of data
Return of material
Quality Assurance
Billing
EOL species need
CuratorRequest
ldquogap-fillrdquofor other BHL library
Pull from stacks
Circ in ILS Preliminary metadata checkAnd physical check
Goin‟ down the rows
serial
ldquoBidrdquoon title select in picklist
The Stacks
Meta-datacheck
Preser-vationreview
Other libraryldquobidrdquo
Circ to cataloging for MARC editing
Update picklist if item record has been changedDuring cataloging touch-upCirc to scanner
Put on shipping cart generatebdquopackinglist‟ invoice
Evaluate titleNeed ishellip
pass
yes
pass
fail
fail
no
Carts delivered to scanner
Picklist databasestoresselectrejectshipstate amp suppliesitem metadatato IA
Select title in picklistupload to monograph de-duper
Duplicateyes
BibliographicData from SIRIS
noReject in picklistCirc in HorizonReturn to stacks
noReject in picklistreturn to stacks
IA scanning processUnique IA id is assignedMetadata is gathered fromSIRIS and the picklist dbAnd associated with the scanJP2000s generatedamp transformedServed on archiveorgQA is done by IA on 10
Books are returned cart contents areverified against invoice
SIL does 20 QAChecking for metadata matchingWith item scan quality etc
Updated in picklist as scannedCirc in HorizonPlace BHL sticker near barcodeReturn to Stacks
Pass QA
BHL PortalPeriodically harvestsMarcxml (bib) and itemRecords along with JP2000 fromArchiveorgTo index and displayIn the portal
yes
no
Update picklist to indicate rescan
Put on shipping cart generate bdquopackinglist‟ Invoice alert scanning center
Carts delivered to scanner
Download csv from portal with SIL barcodes Portal URLs
Send URLs to SIRISOffice for batch updates
The work-Flow Process
Select Book ~Pull from Shelf
Review Physically
and check Metadata
Establish viability and create pickpack list Wonderfetch tm
Send to IA scanning center
Monographic DeDuper
Serials Deduping
merging biddinghellipan ordering process
institutions
holdings
OCLC matching
Potential merge-dedupe alert ahead
Donrsquot press the wrong button
Indicate which records you intend to consider as a single record
Choose the more complete record
2 records merged into single record for this title
Holdings remain distinct for each institution
Potential second bid brewinghellip
Last step in the workflow
another view of the beehive
callingworker bees to the beehive
the bee-skyve
24 April 2009The following came from a public librarian in Falmouth Massachusetts
We recently were asked the question who discovered the zebra fish In searching the Encyclopedia of Life I kept seeing the phrase ldquoHamilton 1822rdquo next to the ldquodanio reriordquo Wondering who Hamilton was I searched WorldCat and discovered that Hamilton was Francis Hamilton who had published in 1822 An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges and its branches I looked at the EOL record and clicked on the Biodiversity Heritage Library link One of the links was to a Hamilton book In 1878 the book The Fishes of India was published which included a description and a image of the danio rerio Links were provided to the exact place in the text where the fish was mentioned as well as to the plate with the fish itself illustrated Not only that but I could send the patron the exact link to both pages which described her fish How remarkable it was to find this Harvard University book available so easily through the Biodiversity Heritage Library A great success for our patron and we looked like magicians bringing the book to her
Gary Anderson Professor Emeritus at the University of Southern Mississippi He used to make an annual trip to our stacks to xerox hundreds of articles at a time
ldquoThe Biodiversity Heritage Library is a valuable resource foracquiring crustacean literature At present a search there (httpwwwbiodiversitylibraryorgSearchaspxsearchTerm=pycnogonidampsearchCat=) will turn up 5 publications (one ofwhich was not contributed by the Smithsonian) Also note that the BHLhas scanned these and additional literature at the site for taxonomicterms and provides links to those documents There are 1592 hitsfor Pycnogonida It is likely that you could turn up a lot ofadditional articles within larger works that way Alternatively youcould perform searches for volumes of interest (if you know ofspecific references) to home in on the papers you want There willbe A LOT of additional material becoming available at that siterdquo
ldquoYesterday whilst reading the latest edition of The Entomologists Record I was pleased to find that early editions of this invaluable publication edited by the seminal entomologist James Tutt (no relation to Elviss drummer as far as I am aware) are available digitised [hellip]
So I went there and was amazed at what I found
They even have a blog What a fantastic projectrdquo
From the blog httpforteanzoologyblogspotcom200903fantastic-resourcehtml
[hellip]Michael an colleague researching wasps was excited that he had discovered in the Biodiversity Heritage Library a copy of an obscure 1860s bookSaussure H de amp Sichel J (1864) Catalogue des espegraveces de lanciengenre Scolia contenant les diagnoses les descriptions et la synonymie des espegraveces avec des remarques explicatives er critiques Genegraveve amp Paris Henri Georg amp V Masson et Fils pp 1ndash350
This book was not in our library probably not in Australia and almost impossible to get hold of without travelling to the northern hemisphereThanks to the BHL for their work in providing access to works of importance Michael is now able to use detailed content of this book in his work
John Tann Australian Museum
The Biodiversity Heritage Library Advancing Metadata Practices in a Collaborative Digital Library
Suzanne C Pilsk Smithsonian Institution Libraries Matthew Person MBLWHOI Library Joseph deVeer Ernst Mayr Library Museum of Comparative Zoology John F
Furfey MBLWHOI Library Martin R Kalfatovic Smithsonian Institution Libraries
AbstractThe Biodiversity Heritage Library is an open access digital library of taxonomic literature forming a single point of access to this collection for use by a worldwide audience of professional taxonomists as well as ldquocitizen scientistsrdquo A successful mass scanning digitization program one that creates functional and findable digital objects requires thoughtful metadata workflow that parallels the workflow of the physical items from shelf to scanner This article examines the needs of users of taxonomic literature specifically in relation to the transformation of traditional library material to digital form It details the issues that arise in determining scanning priorities avoiding duplication of scanning across the founding twelve natural history and botanical garden library collections and the problems related to the complexity of serials monographs and series Highlighted are the tools procedures and methodology for addressing the details of a mass scanning operation
A Mass Scanning Workflow
Discussion
Pilskssiedu
mpersonmbledu
Thanks to All Staff of the
BHL Members
Mass Scanning Workflow
Local data flow
Vendor data flow
WonderFetch tm
Return of data
Return of material
Quality Assurance
Billing
EOL species need
CuratorRequest
ldquogap-fillrdquofor other BHL library
Pull from stacks
Circ in ILS Preliminary metadata checkAnd physical check
Goin‟ down the rows
serial
ldquoBidrdquoon title select in picklist
The Stacks
Meta-datacheck
Preser-vationreview
Other libraryldquobidrdquo
Circ to cataloging for MARC editing
Update picklist if item record has been changedDuring cataloging touch-upCirc to scanner
Put on shipping cart generatebdquopackinglist‟ invoice
Evaluate titleNeed ishellip
pass
yes
pass
fail
fail
no
Carts delivered to scanner
Picklist databasestoresselectrejectshipstate amp suppliesitem metadatato IA
Select title in picklistupload to monograph de-duper
Duplicateyes
BibliographicData from SIRIS
noReject in picklistCirc in HorizonReturn to stacks
noReject in picklistreturn to stacks
IA scanning processUnique IA id is assignedMetadata is gathered fromSIRIS and the picklist dbAnd associated with the scanJP2000s generatedamp transformedServed on archiveorgQA is done by IA on 10
Books are returned cart contents areverified against invoice
SIL does 20 QAChecking for metadata matchingWith item scan quality etc
Updated in picklist as scannedCirc in HorizonPlace BHL sticker near barcodeReturn to Stacks
Pass QA
BHL PortalPeriodically harvestsMarcxml (bib) and itemRecords along with JP2000 fromArchiveorgTo index and displayIn the portal
yes
no
Update picklist to indicate rescan
Put on shipping cart generate bdquopackinglist‟ Invoice alert scanning center
Carts delivered to scanner
Download csv from portal with SIL barcodes Portal URLs
Send URLs to SIRISOffice for batch updates
The work-Flow Process
Select Book ~Pull from Shelf
Review Physically
and check Metadata
Establish viability and create pickpack list Wonderfetch tm
Send to IA scanning center
Monographic DeDuper
Serials Deduping
merging biddinghellipan ordering process
institutions
holdings
OCLC matching
Potential merge-dedupe alert ahead
Donrsquot press the wrong button
Indicate which records you intend to consider as a single record
Choose the more complete record
2 records merged into single record for this title
Holdings remain distinct for each institution
Potential second bid brewinghellip
Last step in the workflow
another view of the beehive
callingworker bees to the beehive
the bee-skyve
24 April 2009The following came from a public librarian in Falmouth Massachusetts
We recently were asked the question who discovered the zebra fish In searching the Encyclopedia of Life I kept seeing the phrase ldquoHamilton 1822rdquo next to the ldquodanio reriordquo Wondering who Hamilton was I searched WorldCat and discovered that Hamilton was Francis Hamilton who had published in 1822 An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges and its branches I looked at the EOL record and clicked on the Biodiversity Heritage Library link One of the links was to a Hamilton book In 1878 the book The Fishes of India was published which included a description and a image of the danio rerio Links were provided to the exact place in the text where the fish was mentioned as well as to the plate with the fish itself illustrated Not only that but I could send the patron the exact link to both pages which described her fish How remarkable it was to find this Harvard University book available so easily through the Biodiversity Heritage Library A great success for our patron and we looked like magicians bringing the book to her
Gary Anderson Professor Emeritus at the University of Southern Mississippi He used to make an annual trip to our stacks to xerox hundreds of articles at a time
ldquoThe Biodiversity Heritage Library is a valuable resource foracquiring crustacean literature At present a search there (httpwwwbiodiversitylibraryorgSearchaspxsearchTerm=pycnogonidampsearchCat=) will turn up 5 publications (one ofwhich was not contributed by the Smithsonian) Also note that the BHLhas scanned these and additional literature at the site for taxonomicterms and provides links to those documents There are 1592 hitsfor Pycnogonida It is likely that you could turn up a lot ofadditional articles within larger works that way Alternatively youcould perform searches for volumes of interest (if you know ofspecific references) to home in on the papers you want There willbe A LOT of additional material becoming available at that siterdquo
ldquoYesterday whilst reading the latest edition of The Entomologists Record I was pleased to find that early editions of this invaluable publication edited by the seminal entomologist James Tutt (no relation to Elviss drummer as far as I am aware) are available digitised [hellip]
So I went there and was amazed at what I found
They even have a blog What a fantastic projectrdquo
From the blog httpforteanzoologyblogspotcom200903fantastic-resourcehtml
[hellip]Michael an colleague researching wasps was excited that he had discovered in the Biodiversity Heritage Library a copy of an obscure 1860s bookSaussure H de amp Sichel J (1864) Catalogue des espegraveces de lanciengenre Scolia contenant les diagnoses les descriptions et la synonymie des espegraveces avec des remarques explicatives er critiques Genegraveve amp Paris Henri Georg amp V Masson et Fils pp 1ndash350
This book was not in our library probably not in Australia and almost impossible to get hold of without travelling to the northern hemisphereThanks to the BHL for their work in providing access to works of importance Michael is now able to use detailed content of this book in his work
John Tann Australian Museum
The Biodiversity Heritage Library Advancing Metadata Practices in a Collaborative Digital Library
Suzanne C Pilsk Smithsonian Institution Libraries Matthew Person MBLWHOI Library Joseph deVeer Ernst Mayr Library Museum of Comparative Zoology John F
Furfey MBLWHOI Library Martin R Kalfatovic Smithsonian Institution Libraries
AbstractThe Biodiversity Heritage Library is an open access digital library of taxonomic literature forming a single point of access to this collection for use by a worldwide audience of professional taxonomists as well as ldquocitizen scientistsrdquo A successful mass scanning digitization program one that creates functional and findable digital objects requires thoughtful metadata workflow that parallels the workflow of the physical items from shelf to scanner This article examines the needs of users of taxonomic literature specifically in relation to the transformation of traditional library material to digital form It details the issues that arise in determining scanning priorities avoiding duplication of scanning across the founding twelve natural history and botanical garden library collections and the problems related to the complexity of serials monographs and series Highlighted are the tools procedures and methodology for addressing the details of a mass scanning operation
A Mass Scanning Workflow
Discussion
Pilskssiedu
mpersonmbledu
Thanks to All Staff of the
BHL Members
EOL species need
CuratorRequest
ldquogap-fillrdquofor other BHL library
Pull from stacks
Circ in ILS Preliminary metadata checkAnd physical check
Goin‟ down the rows
serial
ldquoBidrdquoon title select in picklist
The Stacks
Meta-datacheck
Preser-vationreview
Other libraryldquobidrdquo
Circ to cataloging for MARC editing
Update picklist if item record has been changedDuring cataloging touch-upCirc to scanner
Put on shipping cart generatebdquopackinglist‟ invoice
Evaluate titleNeed ishellip
pass
yes
pass
fail
fail
no
Carts delivered to scanner
Picklist databasestoresselectrejectshipstate amp suppliesitem metadatato IA
Select title in picklistupload to monograph de-duper
Duplicateyes
BibliographicData from SIRIS
noReject in picklistCirc in HorizonReturn to stacks
noReject in picklistreturn to stacks
IA scanning processUnique IA id is assignedMetadata is gathered fromSIRIS and the picklist dbAnd associated with the scanJP2000s generatedamp transformedServed on archiveorgQA is done by IA on 10
Books are returned cart contents areverified against invoice
SIL does 20 QAChecking for metadata matchingWith item scan quality etc
Updated in picklist as scannedCirc in HorizonPlace BHL sticker near barcodeReturn to Stacks
Pass QA
BHL PortalPeriodically harvestsMarcxml (bib) and itemRecords along with JP2000 fromArchiveorgTo index and displayIn the portal
yes
no
Update picklist to indicate rescan
Put on shipping cart generate bdquopackinglist‟ Invoice alert scanning center
Carts delivered to scanner
Download csv from portal with SIL barcodes Portal URLs
Send URLs to SIRISOffice for batch updates
The work-Flow Process
Select Book ~Pull from Shelf
Review Physically
and check Metadata
Establish viability and create pickpack list Wonderfetch tm
Send to IA scanning center
Monographic DeDuper
Serials Deduping
merging biddinghellipan ordering process
institutions
holdings
OCLC matching
Potential merge-dedupe alert ahead
Donrsquot press the wrong button
Indicate which records you intend to consider as a single record
Choose the more complete record
2 records merged into single record for this title
Holdings remain distinct for each institution
Potential second bid brewinghellip
Last step in the workflow
another view of the beehive
callingworker bees to the beehive
the bee-skyve
24 April 2009The following came from a public librarian in Falmouth Massachusetts
We recently were asked the question who discovered the zebra fish In searching the Encyclopedia of Life I kept seeing the phrase ldquoHamilton 1822rdquo next to the ldquodanio reriordquo Wondering who Hamilton was I searched WorldCat and discovered that Hamilton was Francis Hamilton who had published in 1822 An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges and its branches I looked at the EOL record and clicked on the Biodiversity Heritage Library link One of the links was to a Hamilton book In 1878 the book The Fishes of India was published which included a description and a image of the danio rerio Links were provided to the exact place in the text where the fish was mentioned as well as to the plate with the fish itself illustrated Not only that but I could send the patron the exact link to both pages which described her fish How remarkable it was to find this Harvard University book available so easily through the Biodiversity Heritage Library A great success for our patron and we looked like magicians bringing the book to her
Gary Anderson Professor Emeritus at the University of Southern Mississippi He used to make an annual trip to our stacks to xerox hundreds of articles at a time
ldquoThe Biodiversity Heritage Library is a valuable resource foracquiring crustacean literature At present a search there (httpwwwbiodiversitylibraryorgSearchaspxsearchTerm=pycnogonidampsearchCat=) will turn up 5 publications (one ofwhich was not contributed by the Smithsonian) Also note that the BHLhas scanned these and additional literature at the site for taxonomicterms and provides links to those documents There are 1592 hitsfor Pycnogonida It is likely that you could turn up a lot ofadditional articles within larger works that way Alternatively youcould perform searches for volumes of interest (if you know ofspecific references) to home in on the papers you want There willbe A LOT of additional material becoming available at that siterdquo
ldquoYesterday whilst reading the latest edition of The Entomologists Record I was pleased to find that early editions of this invaluable publication edited by the seminal entomologist James Tutt (no relation to Elviss drummer as far as I am aware) are available digitised [hellip]
So I went there and was amazed at what I found
They even have a blog What a fantastic projectrdquo
From the blog httpforteanzoologyblogspotcom200903fantastic-resourcehtml
[hellip]Michael an colleague researching wasps was excited that he had discovered in the Biodiversity Heritage Library a copy of an obscure 1860s bookSaussure H de amp Sichel J (1864) Catalogue des espegraveces de lanciengenre Scolia contenant les diagnoses les descriptions et la synonymie des espegraveces avec des remarques explicatives er critiques Genegraveve amp Paris Henri Georg amp V Masson et Fils pp 1ndash350
This book was not in our library probably not in Australia and almost impossible to get hold of without travelling to the northern hemisphereThanks to the BHL for their work in providing access to works of importance Michael is now able to use detailed content of this book in his work
John Tann Australian Museum
The Biodiversity Heritage Library Advancing Metadata Practices in a Collaborative Digital Library
Suzanne C Pilsk Smithsonian Institution Libraries Matthew Person MBLWHOI Library Joseph deVeer Ernst Mayr Library Museum of Comparative Zoology John F
Furfey MBLWHOI Library Martin R Kalfatovic Smithsonian Institution Libraries
AbstractThe Biodiversity Heritage Library is an open access digital library of taxonomic literature forming a single point of access to this collection for use by a worldwide audience of professional taxonomists as well as ldquocitizen scientistsrdquo A successful mass scanning digitization program one that creates functional and findable digital objects requires thoughtful metadata workflow that parallels the workflow of the physical items from shelf to scanner This article examines the needs of users of taxonomic literature specifically in relation to the transformation of traditional library material to digital form It details the issues that arise in determining scanning priorities avoiding duplication of scanning across the founding twelve natural history and botanical garden library collections and the problems related to the complexity of serials monographs and series Highlighted are the tools procedures and methodology for addressing the details of a mass scanning operation
A Mass Scanning Workflow
Discussion
Pilskssiedu
mpersonmbledu
Thanks to All Staff of the
BHL Members
IA scanning processUnique IA id is assignedMetadata is gathered fromSIRIS and the picklist dbAnd associated with the scanJP2000s generatedamp transformedServed on archiveorgQA is done by IA on 10
Books are returned cart contents areverified against invoice
SIL does 20 QAChecking for metadata matchingWith item scan quality etc
Updated in picklist as scannedCirc in HorizonPlace BHL sticker near barcodeReturn to Stacks
Pass QA
BHL PortalPeriodically harvestsMarcxml (bib) and itemRecords along with JP2000 fromArchiveorgTo index and displayIn the portal
yes
no
Update picklist to indicate rescan
Put on shipping cart generate bdquopackinglist‟ Invoice alert scanning center
Carts delivered to scanner
Download csv from portal with SIL barcodes Portal URLs
Send URLs to SIRISOffice for batch updates
The work-Flow Process
Select Book ~Pull from Shelf
Review Physically
and check Metadata
Establish viability and create pickpack list Wonderfetch tm
Send to IA scanning center
Monographic DeDuper
Serials Deduping
merging biddinghellipan ordering process
institutions
holdings
OCLC matching
Potential merge-dedupe alert ahead
Donrsquot press the wrong button
Indicate which records you intend to consider as a single record
Choose the more complete record
2 records merged into single record for this title
Holdings remain distinct for each institution
Potential second bid brewinghellip
Last step in the workflow
another view of the beehive
callingworker bees to the beehive
the bee-skyve
24 April 2009The following came from a public librarian in Falmouth Massachusetts
We recently were asked the question who discovered the zebra fish In searching the Encyclopedia of Life I kept seeing the phrase ldquoHamilton 1822rdquo next to the ldquodanio reriordquo Wondering who Hamilton was I searched WorldCat and discovered that Hamilton was Francis Hamilton who had published in 1822 An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges and its branches I looked at the EOL record and clicked on the Biodiversity Heritage Library link One of the links was to a Hamilton book In 1878 the book The Fishes of India was published which included a description and a image of the danio rerio Links were provided to the exact place in the text where the fish was mentioned as well as to the plate with the fish itself illustrated Not only that but I could send the patron the exact link to both pages which described her fish How remarkable it was to find this Harvard University book available so easily through the Biodiversity Heritage Library A great success for our patron and we looked like magicians bringing the book to her
Gary Anderson Professor Emeritus at the University of Southern Mississippi He used to make an annual trip to our stacks to xerox hundreds of articles at a time
ldquoThe Biodiversity Heritage Library is a valuable resource foracquiring crustacean literature At present a search there (httpwwwbiodiversitylibraryorgSearchaspxsearchTerm=pycnogonidampsearchCat=) will turn up 5 publications (one ofwhich was not contributed by the Smithsonian) Also note that the BHLhas scanned these and additional literature at the site for taxonomicterms and provides links to those documents There are 1592 hitsfor Pycnogonida It is likely that you could turn up a lot ofadditional articles within larger works that way Alternatively youcould perform searches for volumes of interest (if you know ofspecific references) to home in on the papers you want There willbe A LOT of additional material becoming available at that siterdquo
ldquoYesterday whilst reading the latest edition of The Entomologists Record I was pleased to find that early editions of this invaluable publication edited by the seminal entomologist James Tutt (no relation to Elviss drummer as far as I am aware) are available digitised [hellip]
So I went there and was amazed at what I found
They even have a blog What a fantastic projectrdquo
From the blog httpforteanzoologyblogspotcom200903fantastic-resourcehtml
[hellip]Michael an colleague researching wasps was excited that he had discovered in the Biodiversity Heritage Library a copy of an obscure 1860s bookSaussure H de amp Sichel J (1864) Catalogue des espegraveces de lanciengenre Scolia contenant les diagnoses les descriptions et la synonymie des espegraveces avec des remarques explicatives er critiques Genegraveve amp Paris Henri Georg amp V Masson et Fils pp 1ndash350
This book was not in our library probably not in Australia and almost impossible to get hold of without travelling to the northern hemisphereThanks to the BHL for their work in providing access to works of importance Michael is now able to use detailed content of this book in his work
John Tann Australian Museum
The Biodiversity Heritage Library Advancing Metadata Practices in a Collaborative Digital Library
Suzanne C Pilsk Smithsonian Institution Libraries Matthew Person MBLWHOI Library Joseph deVeer Ernst Mayr Library Museum of Comparative Zoology John F
Furfey MBLWHOI Library Martin R Kalfatovic Smithsonian Institution Libraries
AbstractThe Biodiversity Heritage Library is an open access digital library of taxonomic literature forming a single point of access to this collection for use by a worldwide audience of professional taxonomists as well as ldquocitizen scientistsrdquo A successful mass scanning digitization program one that creates functional and findable digital objects requires thoughtful metadata workflow that parallels the workflow of the physical items from shelf to scanner This article examines the needs of users of taxonomic literature specifically in relation to the transformation of traditional library material to digital form It details the issues that arise in determining scanning priorities avoiding duplication of scanning across the founding twelve natural history and botanical garden library collections and the problems related to the complexity of serials monographs and series Highlighted are the tools procedures and methodology for addressing the details of a mass scanning operation
A Mass Scanning Workflow
Discussion
Pilskssiedu
mpersonmbledu
Thanks to All Staff of the
BHL Members
The work-Flow Process
Select Book ~Pull from Shelf
Review Physically
and check Metadata
Establish viability and create pickpack list Wonderfetch tm
Send to IA scanning center
Monographic DeDuper
Serials Deduping
merging biddinghellipan ordering process
institutions
holdings
OCLC matching
Potential merge-dedupe alert ahead
Donrsquot press the wrong button
Indicate which records you intend to consider as a single record
Choose the more complete record
2 records merged into single record for this title
Holdings remain distinct for each institution
Potential second bid brewinghellip
Last step in the workflow
another view of the beehive
callingworker bees to the beehive
the bee-skyve
24 April 2009The following came from a public librarian in Falmouth Massachusetts
We recently were asked the question who discovered the zebra fish In searching the Encyclopedia of Life I kept seeing the phrase ldquoHamilton 1822rdquo next to the ldquodanio reriordquo Wondering who Hamilton was I searched WorldCat and discovered that Hamilton was Francis Hamilton who had published in 1822 An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges and its branches I looked at the EOL record and clicked on the Biodiversity Heritage Library link One of the links was to a Hamilton book In 1878 the book The Fishes of India was published which included a description and a image of the danio rerio Links were provided to the exact place in the text where the fish was mentioned as well as to the plate with the fish itself illustrated Not only that but I could send the patron the exact link to both pages which described her fish How remarkable it was to find this Harvard University book available so easily through the Biodiversity Heritage Library A great success for our patron and we looked like magicians bringing the book to her
Gary Anderson Professor Emeritus at the University of Southern Mississippi He used to make an annual trip to our stacks to xerox hundreds of articles at a time
ldquoThe Biodiversity Heritage Library is a valuable resource foracquiring crustacean literature At present a search there (httpwwwbiodiversitylibraryorgSearchaspxsearchTerm=pycnogonidampsearchCat=) will turn up 5 publications (one ofwhich was not contributed by the Smithsonian) Also note that the BHLhas scanned these and additional literature at the site for taxonomicterms and provides links to those documents There are 1592 hitsfor Pycnogonida It is likely that you could turn up a lot ofadditional articles within larger works that way Alternatively youcould perform searches for volumes of interest (if you know ofspecific references) to home in on the papers you want There willbe A LOT of additional material becoming available at that siterdquo
ldquoYesterday whilst reading the latest edition of The Entomologists Record I was pleased to find that early editions of this invaluable publication edited by the seminal entomologist James Tutt (no relation to Elviss drummer as far as I am aware) are available digitised [hellip]
So I went there and was amazed at what I found
They even have a blog What a fantastic projectrdquo
From the blog httpforteanzoologyblogspotcom200903fantastic-resourcehtml
[hellip]Michael an colleague researching wasps was excited that he had discovered in the Biodiversity Heritage Library a copy of an obscure 1860s bookSaussure H de amp Sichel J (1864) Catalogue des espegraveces de lanciengenre Scolia contenant les diagnoses les descriptions et la synonymie des espegraveces avec des remarques explicatives er critiques Genegraveve amp Paris Henri Georg amp V Masson et Fils pp 1ndash350
This book was not in our library probably not in Australia and almost impossible to get hold of without travelling to the northern hemisphereThanks to the BHL for their work in providing access to works of importance Michael is now able to use detailed content of this book in his work
John Tann Australian Museum
The Biodiversity Heritage Library Advancing Metadata Practices in a Collaborative Digital Library
Suzanne C Pilsk Smithsonian Institution Libraries Matthew Person MBLWHOI Library Joseph deVeer Ernst Mayr Library Museum of Comparative Zoology John F
Furfey MBLWHOI Library Martin R Kalfatovic Smithsonian Institution Libraries
AbstractThe Biodiversity Heritage Library is an open access digital library of taxonomic literature forming a single point of access to this collection for use by a worldwide audience of professional taxonomists as well as ldquocitizen scientistsrdquo A successful mass scanning digitization program one that creates functional and findable digital objects requires thoughtful metadata workflow that parallels the workflow of the physical items from shelf to scanner This article examines the needs of users of taxonomic literature specifically in relation to the transformation of traditional library material to digital form It details the issues that arise in determining scanning priorities avoiding duplication of scanning across the founding twelve natural history and botanical garden library collections and the problems related to the complexity of serials monographs and series Highlighted are the tools procedures and methodology for addressing the details of a mass scanning operation
A Mass Scanning Workflow
Discussion
Pilskssiedu
mpersonmbledu
Thanks to All Staff of the
BHL Members
Monographic DeDuper
Serials Deduping
merging biddinghellipan ordering process
institutions
holdings
OCLC matching
Potential merge-dedupe alert ahead
Donrsquot press the wrong button
Indicate which records you intend to consider as a single record
Choose the more complete record
2 records merged into single record for this title
Holdings remain distinct for each institution
Potential second bid brewinghellip
Last step in the workflow
another view of the beehive
callingworker bees to the beehive
the bee-skyve
24 April 2009The following came from a public librarian in Falmouth Massachusetts
We recently were asked the question who discovered the zebra fish In searching the Encyclopedia of Life I kept seeing the phrase ldquoHamilton 1822rdquo next to the ldquodanio reriordquo Wondering who Hamilton was I searched WorldCat and discovered that Hamilton was Francis Hamilton who had published in 1822 An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges and its branches I looked at the EOL record and clicked on the Biodiversity Heritage Library link One of the links was to a Hamilton book In 1878 the book The Fishes of India was published which included a description and a image of the danio rerio Links were provided to the exact place in the text where the fish was mentioned as well as to the plate with the fish itself illustrated Not only that but I could send the patron the exact link to both pages which described her fish How remarkable it was to find this Harvard University book available so easily through the Biodiversity Heritage Library A great success for our patron and we looked like magicians bringing the book to her
Gary Anderson Professor Emeritus at the University of Southern Mississippi He used to make an annual trip to our stacks to xerox hundreds of articles at a time
ldquoThe Biodiversity Heritage Library is a valuable resource foracquiring crustacean literature At present a search there (httpwwwbiodiversitylibraryorgSearchaspxsearchTerm=pycnogonidampsearchCat=) will turn up 5 publications (one ofwhich was not contributed by the Smithsonian) Also note that the BHLhas scanned these and additional literature at the site for taxonomicterms and provides links to those documents There are 1592 hitsfor Pycnogonida It is likely that you could turn up a lot ofadditional articles within larger works that way Alternatively youcould perform searches for volumes of interest (if you know ofspecific references) to home in on the papers you want There willbe A LOT of additional material becoming available at that siterdquo
ldquoYesterday whilst reading the latest edition of The Entomologists Record I was pleased to find that early editions of this invaluable publication edited by the seminal entomologist James Tutt (no relation to Elviss drummer as far as I am aware) are available digitised [hellip]
So I went there and was amazed at what I found
They even have a blog What a fantastic projectrdquo
From the blog httpforteanzoologyblogspotcom200903fantastic-resourcehtml
[hellip]Michael an colleague researching wasps was excited that he had discovered in the Biodiversity Heritage Library a copy of an obscure 1860s bookSaussure H de amp Sichel J (1864) Catalogue des espegraveces de lanciengenre Scolia contenant les diagnoses les descriptions et la synonymie des espegraveces avec des remarques explicatives er critiques Genegraveve amp Paris Henri Georg amp V Masson et Fils pp 1ndash350
This book was not in our library probably not in Australia and almost impossible to get hold of without travelling to the northern hemisphereThanks to the BHL for their work in providing access to works of importance Michael is now able to use detailed content of this book in his work
John Tann Australian Museum
The Biodiversity Heritage Library Advancing Metadata Practices in a Collaborative Digital Library
Suzanne C Pilsk Smithsonian Institution Libraries Matthew Person MBLWHOI Library Joseph deVeer Ernst Mayr Library Museum of Comparative Zoology John F
Furfey MBLWHOI Library Martin R Kalfatovic Smithsonian Institution Libraries
AbstractThe Biodiversity Heritage Library is an open access digital library of taxonomic literature forming a single point of access to this collection for use by a worldwide audience of professional taxonomists as well as ldquocitizen scientistsrdquo A successful mass scanning digitization program one that creates functional and findable digital objects requires thoughtful metadata workflow that parallels the workflow of the physical items from shelf to scanner This article examines the needs of users of taxonomic literature specifically in relation to the transformation of traditional library material to digital form It details the issues that arise in determining scanning priorities avoiding duplication of scanning across the founding twelve natural history and botanical garden library collections and the problems related to the complexity of serials monographs and series Highlighted are the tools procedures and methodology for addressing the details of a mass scanning operation
A Mass Scanning Workflow
Discussion
Pilskssiedu
mpersonmbledu
Thanks to All Staff of the
BHL Members
Serials Deduping
merging biddinghellipan ordering process
institutions
holdings
OCLC matching
Potential merge-dedupe alert ahead
Donrsquot press the wrong button
Indicate which records you intend to consider as a single record
Choose the more complete record
2 records merged into single record for this title
Holdings remain distinct for each institution
Potential second bid brewinghellip
Last step in the workflow
another view of the beehive
callingworker bees to the beehive
the bee-skyve
24 April 2009The following came from a public librarian in Falmouth Massachusetts
We recently were asked the question who discovered the zebra fish In searching the Encyclopedia of Life I kept seeing the phrase ldquoHamilton 1822rdquo next to the ldquodanio reriordquo Wondering who Hamilton was I searched WorldCat and discovered that Hamilton was Francis Hamilton who had published in 1822 An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges and its branches I looked at the EOL record and clicked on the Biodiversity Heritage Library link One of the links was to a Hamilton book In 1878 the book The Fishes of India was published which included a description and a image of the danio rerio Links were provided to the exact place in the text where the fish was mentioned as well as to the plate with the fish itself illustrated Not only that but I could send the patron the exact link to both pages which described her fish How remarkable it was to find this Harvard University book available so easily through the Biodiversity Heritage Library A great success for our patron and we looked like magicians bringing the book to her
Gary Anderson Professor Emeritus at the University of Southern Mississippi He used to make an annual trip to our stacks to xerox hundreds of articles at a time
ldquoThe Biodiversity Heritage Library is a valuable resource foracquiring crustacean literature At present a search there (httpwwwbiodiversitylibraryorgSearchaspxsearchTerm=pycnogonidampsearchCat=) will turn up 5 publications (one ofwhich was not contributed by the Smithsonian) Also note that the BHLhas scanned these and additional literature at the site for taxonomicterms and provides links to those documents There are 1592 hitsfor Pycnogonida It is likely that you could turn up a lot ofadditional articles within larger works that way Alternatively youcould perform searches for volumes of interest (if you know ofspecific references) to home in on the papers you want There willbe A LOT of additional material becoming available at that siterdquo
ldquoYesterday whilst reading the latest edition of The Entomologists Record I was pleased to find that early editions of this invaluable publication edited by the seminal entomologist James Tutt (no relation to Elviss drummer as far as I am aware) are available digitised [hellip]
So I went there and was amazed at what I found
They even have a blog What a fantastic projectrdquo
From the blog httpforteanzoologyblogspotcom200903fantastic-resourcehtml
[hellip]Michael an colleague researching wasps was excited that he had discovered in the Biodiversity Heritage Library a copy of an obscure 1860s bookSaussure H de amp Sichel J (1864) Catalogue des espegraveces de lanciengenre Scolia contenant les diagnoses les descriptions et la synonymie des espegraveces avec des remarques explicatives er critiques Genegraveve amp Paris Henri Georg amp V Masson et Fils pp 1ndash350
This book was not in our library probably not in Australia and almost impossible to get hold of without travelling to the northern hemisphereThanks to the BHL for their work in providing access to works of importance Michael is now able to use detailed content of this book in his work
John Tann Australian Museum
The Biodiversity Heritage Library Advancing Metadata Practices in a Collaborative Digital Library
Suzanne C Pilsk Smithsonian Institution Libraries Matthew Person MBLWHOI Library Joseph deVeer Ernst Mayr Library Museum of Comparative Zoology John F
Furfey MBLWHOI Library Martin R Kalfatovic Smithsonian Institution Libraries
AbstractThe Biodiversity Heritage Library is an open access digital library of taxonomic literature forming a single point of access to this collection for use by a worldwide audience of professional taxonomists as well as ldquocitizen scientistsrdquo A successful mass scanning digitization program one that creates functional and findable digital objects requires thoughtful metadata workflow that parallels the workflow of the physical items from shelf to scanner This article examines the needs of users of taxonomic literature specifically in relation to the transformation of traditional library material to digital form It details the issues that arise in determining scanning priorities avoiding duplication of scanning across the founding twelve natural history and botanical garden library collections and the problems related to the complexity of serials monographs and series Highlighted are the tools procedures and methodology for addressing the details of a mass scanning operation
A Mass Scanning Workflow
Discussion
Pilskssiedu
mpersonmbledu
Thanks to All Staff of the
BHL Members
institutions
holdings
OCLC matching
Potential merge-dedupe alert ahead
Donrsquot press the wrong button
Indicate which records you intend to consider as a single record
Choose the more complete record
2 records merged into single record for this title
Holdings remain distinct for each institution
Potential second bid brewinghellip
Last step in the workflow
another view of the beehive
callingworker bees to the beehive
the bee-skyve
24 April 2009The following came from a public librarian in Falmouth Massachusetts
We recently were asked the question who discovered the zebra fish In searching the Encyclopedia of Life I kept seeing the phrase ldquoHamilton 1822rdquo next to the ldquodanio reriordquo Wondering who Hamilton was I searched WorldCat and discovered that Hamilton was Francis Hamilton who had published in 1822 An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges and its branches I looked at the EOL record and clicked on the Biodiversity Heritage Library link One of the links was to a Hamilton book In 1878 the book The Fishes of India was published which included a description and a image of the danio rerio Links were provided to the exact place in the text where the fish was mentioned as well as to the plate with the fish itself illustrated Not only that but I could send the patron the exact link to both pages which described her fish How remarkable it was to find this Harvard University book available so easily through the Biodiversity Heritage Library A great success for our patron and we looked like magicians bringing the book to her
Gary Anderson Professor Emeritus at the University of Southern Mississippi He used to make an annual trip to our stacks to xerox hundreds of articles at a time
ldquoThe Biodiversity Heritage Library is a valuable resource foracquiring crustacean literature At present a search there (httpwwwbiodiversitylibraryorgSearchaspxsearchTerm=pycnogonidampsearchCat=) will turn up 5 publications (one ofwhich was not contributed by the Smithsonian) Also note that the BHLhas scanned these and additional literature at the site for taxonomicterms and provides links to those documents There are 1592 hitsfor Pycnogonida It is likely that you could turn up a lot ofadditional articles within larger works that way Alternatively youcould perform searches for volumes of interest (if you know ofspecific references) to home in on the papers you want There willbe A LOT of additional material becoming available at that siterdquo
ldquoYesterday whilst reading the latest edition of The Entomologists Record I was pleased to find that early editions of this invaluable publication edited by the seminal entomologist James Tutt (no relation to Elviss drummer as far as I am aware) are available digitised [hellip]
So I went there and was amazed at what I found
They even have a blog What a fantastic projectrdquo
From the blog httpforteanzoologyblogspotcom200903fantastic-resourcehtml
[hellip]Michael an colleague researching wasps was excited that he had discovered in the Biodiversity Heritage Library a copy of an obscure 1860s bookSaussure H de amp Sichel J (1864) Catalogue des espegraveces de lanciengenre Scolia contenant les diagnoses les descriptions et la synonymie des espegraveces avec des remarques explicatives er critiques Genegraveve amp Paris Henri Georg amp V Masson et Fils pp 1ndash350
This book was not in our library probably not in Australia and almost impossible to get hold of without travelling to the northern hemisphereThanks to the BHL for their work in providing access to works of importance Michael is now able to use detailed content of this book in his work
John Tann Australian Museum
The Biodiversity Heritage Library Advancing Metadata Practices in a Collaborative Digital Library
Suzanne C Pilsk Smithsonian Institution Libraries Matthew Person MBLWHOI Library Joseph deVeer Ernst Mayr Library Museum of Comparative Zoology John F
Furfey MBLWHOI Library Martin R Kalfatovic Smithsonian Institution Libraries
AbstractThe Biodiversity Heritage Library is an open access digital library of taxonomic literature forming a single point of access to this collection for use by a worldwide audience of professional taxonomists as well as ldquocitizen scientistsrdquo A successful mass scanning digitization program one that creates functional and findable digital objects requires thoughtful metadata workflow that parallels the workflow of the physical items from shelf to scanner This article examines the needs of users of taxonomic literature specifically in relation to the transformation of traditional library material to digital form It details the issues that arise in determining scanning priorities avoiding duplication of scanning across the founding twelve natural history and botanical garden library collections and the problems related to the complexity of serials monographs and series Highlighted are the tools procedures and methodology for addressing the details of a mass scanning operation
A Mass Scanning Workflow
Discussion
Pilskssiedu
mpersonmbledu
Thanks to All Staff of the
BHL Members
Potential merge-dedupe alert ahead
Donrsquot press the wrong button
Indicate which records you intend to consider as a single record
Choose the more complete record
2 records merged into single record for this title
Holdings remain distinct for each institution
Potential second bid brewinghellip
Last step in the workflow
another view of the beehive
callingworker bees to the beehive
the bee-skyve
24 April 2009The following came from a public librarian in Falmouth Massachusetts
We recently were asked the question who discovered the zebra fish In searching the Encyclopedia of Life I kept seeing the phrase ldquoHamilton 1822rdquo next to the ldquodanio reriordquo Wondering who Hamilton was I searched WorldCat and discovered that Hamilton was Francis Hamilton who had published in 1822 An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges and its branches I looked at the EOL record and clicked on the Biodiversity Heritage Library link One of the links was to a Hamilton book In 1878 the book The Fishes of India was published which included a description and a image of the danio rerio Links were provided to the exact place in the text where the fish was mentioned as well as to the plate with the fish itself illustrated Not only that but I could send the patron the exact link to both pages which described her fish How remarkable it was to find this Harvard University book available so easily through the Biodiversity Heritage Library A great success for our patron and we looked like magicians bringing the book to her
Gary Anderson Professor Emeritus at the University of Southern Mississippi He used to make an annual trip to our stacks to xerox hundreds of articles at a time
ldquoThe Biodiversity Heritage Library is a valuable resource foracquiring crustacean literature At present a search there (httpwwwbiodiversitylibraryorgSearchaspxsearchTerm=pycnogonidampsearchCat=) will turn up 5 publications (one ofwhich was not contributed by the Smithsonian) Also note that the BHLhas scanned these and additional literature at the site for taxonomicterms and provides links to those documents There are 1592 hitsfor Pycnogonida It is likely that you could turn up a lot ofadditional articles within larger works that way Alternatively youcould perform searches for volumes of interest (if you know ofspecific references) to home in on the papers you want There willbe A LOT of additional material becoming available at that siterdquo
ldquoYesterday whilst reading the latest edition of The Entomologists Record I was pleased to find that early editions of this invaluable publication edited by the seminal entomologist James Tutt (no relation to Elviss drummer as far as I am aware) are available digitised [hellip]
So I went there and was amazed at what I found
They even have a blog What a fantastic projectrdquo
From the blog httpforteanzoologyblogspotcom200903fantastic-resourcehtml
[hellip]Michael an colleague researching wasps was excited that he had discovered in the Biodiversity Heritage Library a copy of an obscure 1860s bookSaussure H de amp Sichel J (1864) Catalogue des espegraveces de lanciengenre Scolia contenant les diagnoses les descriptions et la synonymie des espegraveces avec des remarques explicatives er critiques Genegraveve amp Paris Henri Georg amp V Masson et Fils pp 1ndash350
This book was not in our library probably not in Australia and almost impossible to get hold of without travelling to the northern hemisphereThanks to the BHL for their work in providing access to works of importance Michael is now able to use detailed content of this book in his work
John Tann Australian Museum
The Biodiversity Heritage Library Advancing Metadata Practices in a Collaborative Digital Library
Suzanne C Pilsk Smithsonian Institution Libraries Matthew Person MBLWHOI Library Joseph deVeer Ernst Mayr Library Museum of Comparative Zoology John F
Furfey MBLWHOI Library Martin R Kalfatovic Smithsonian Institution Libraries
AbstractThe Biodiversity Heritage Library is an open access digital library of taxonomic literature forming a single point of access to this collection for use by a worldwide audience of professional taxonomists as well as ldquocitizen scientistsrdquo A successful mass scanning digitization program one that creates functional and findable digital objects requires thoughtful metadata workflow that parallels the workflow of the physical items from shelf to scanner This article examines the needs of users of taxonomic literature specifically in relation to the transformation of traditional library material to digital form It details the issues that arise in determining scanning priorities avoiding duplication of scanning across the founding twelve natural history and botanical garden library collections and the problems related to the complexity of serials monographs and series Highlighted are the tools procedures and methodology for addressing the details of a mass scanning operation
A Mass Scanning Workflow
Discussion
Pilskssiedu
mpersonmbledu
Thanks to All Staff of the
BHL Members
Donrsquot press the wrong button
Indicate which records you intend to consider as a single record
Choose the more complete record
2 records merged into single record for this title
Holdings remain distinct for each institution
Potential second bid brewinghellip
Last step in the workflow
another view of the beehive
callingworker bees to the beehive
the bee-skyve
24 April 2009The following came from a public librarian in Falmouth Massachusetts
We recently were asked the question who discovered the zebra fish In searching the Encyclopedia of Life I kept seeing the phrase ldquoHamilton 1822rdquo next to the ldquodanio reriordquo Wondering who Hamilton was I searched WorldCat and discovered that Hamilton was Francis Hamilton who had published in 1822 An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges and its branches I looked at the EOL record and clicked on the Biodiversity Heritage Library link One of the links was to a Hamilton book In 1878 the book The Fishes of India was published which included a description and a image of the danio rerio Links were provided to the exact place in the text where the fish was mentioned as well as to the plate with the fish itself illustrated Not only that but I could send the patron the exact link to both pages which described her fish How remarkable it was to find this Harvard University book available so easily through the Biodiversity Heritage Library A great success for our patron and we looked like magicians bringing the book to her
Gary Anderson Professor Emeritus at the University of Southern Mississippi He used to make an annual trip to our stacks to xerox hundreds of articles at a time
ldquoThe Biodiversity Heritage Library is a valuable resource foracquiring crustacean literature At present a search there (httpwwwbiodiversitylibraryorgSearchaspxsearchTerm=pycnogonidampsearchCat=) will turn up 5 publications (one ofwhich was not contributed by the Smithsonian) Also note that the BHLhas scanned these and additional literature at the site for taxonomicterms and provides links to those documents There are 1592 hitsfor Pycnogonida It is likely that you could turn up a lot ofadditional articles within larger works that way Alternatively youcould perform searches for volumes of interest (if you know ofspecific references) to home in on the papers you want There willbe A LOT of additional material becoming available at that siterdquo
ldquoYesterday whilst reading the latest edition of The Entomologists Record I was pleased to find that early editions of this invaluable publication edited by the seminal entomologist James Tutt (no relation to Elviss drummer as far as I am aware) are available digitised [hellip]
So I went there and was amazed at what I found
They even have a blog What a fantastic projectrdquo
From the blog httpforteanzoologyblogspotcom200903fantastic-resourcehtml
[hellip]Michael an colleague researching wasps was excited that he had discovered in the Biodiversity Heritage Library a copy of an obscure 1860s bookSaussure H de amp Sichel J (1864) Catalogue des espegraveces de lanciengenre Scolia contenant les diagnoses les descriptions et la synonymie des espegraveces avec des remarques explicatives er critiques Genegraveve amp Paris Henri Georg amp V Masson et Fils pp 1ndash350
This book was not in our library probably not in Australia and almost impossible to get hold of without travelling to the northern hemisphereThanks to the BHL for their work in providing access to works of importance Michael is now able to use detailed content of this book in his work
John Tann Australian Museum
The Biodiversity Heritage Library Advancing Metadata Practices in a Collaborative Digital Library
Suzanne C Pilsk Smithsonian Institution Libraries Matthew Person MBLWHOI Library Joseph deVeer Ernst Mayr Library Museum of Comparative Zoology John F
Furfey MBLWHOI Library Martin R Kalfatovic Smithsonian Institution Libraries
AbstractThe Biodiversity Heritage Library is an open access digital library of taxonomic literature forming a single point of access to this collection for use by a worldwide audience of professional taxonomists as well as ldquocitizen scientistsrdquo A successful mass scanning digitization program one that creates functional and findable digital objects requires thoughtful metadata workflow that parallels the workflow of the physical items from shelf to scanner This article examines the needs of users of taxonomic literature specifically in relation to the transformation of traditional library material to digital form It details the issues that arise in determining scanning priorities avoiding duplication of scanning across the founding twelve natural history and botanical garden library collections and the problems related to the complexity of serials monographs and series Highlighted are the tools procedures and methodology for addressing the details of a mass scanning operation
A Mass Scanning Workflow
Discussion
Pilskssiedu
mpersonmbledu
Thanks to All Staff of the
BHL Members
Indicate which records you intend to consider as a single record
Choose the more complete record
2 records merged into single record for this title
Holdings remain distinct for each institution
Potential second bid brewinghellip
Last step in the workflow
another view of the beehive
callingworker bees to the beehive
the bee-skyve
24 April 2009The following came from a public librarian in Falmouth Massachusetts
We recently were asked the question who discovered the zebra fish In searching the Encyclopedia of Life I kept seeing the phrase ldquoHamilton 1822rdquo next to the ldquodanio reriordquo Wondering who Hamilton was I searched WorldCat and discovered that Hamilton was Francis Hamilton who had published in 1822 An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges and its branches I looked at the EOL record and clicked on the Biodiversity Heritage Library link One of the links was to a Hamilton book In 1878 the book The Fishes of India was published which included a description and a image of the danio rerio Links were provided to the exact place in the text where the fish was mentioned as well as to the plate with the fish itself illustrated Not only that but I could send the patron the exact link to both pages which described her fish How remarkable it was to find this Harvard University book available so easily through the Biodiversity Heritage Library A great success for our patron and we looked like magicians bringing the book to her
Gary Anderson Professor Emeritus at the University of Southern Mississippi He used to make an annual trip to our stacks to xerox hundreds of articles at a time
ldquoThe Biodiversity Heritage Library is a valuable resource foracquiring crustacean literature At present a search there (httpwwwbiodiversitylibraryorgSearchaspxsearchTerm=pycnogonidampsearchCat=) will turn up 5 publications (one ofwhich was not contributed by the Smithsonian) Also note that the BHLhas scanned these and additional literature at the site for taxonomicterms and provides links to those documents There are 1592 hitsfor Pycnogonida It is likely that you could turn up a lot ofadditional articles within larger works that way Alternatively youcould perform searches for volumes of interest (if you know ofspecific references) to home in on the papers you want There willbe A LOT of additional material becoming available at that siterdquo
ldquoYesterday whilst reading the latest edition of The Entomologists Record I was pleased to find that early editions of this invaluable publication edited by the seminal entomologist James Tutt (no relation to Elviss drummer as far as I am aware) are available digitised [hellip]
So I went there and was amazed at what I found
They even have a blog What a fantastic projectrdquo
From the blog httpforteanzoologyblogspotcom200903fantastic-resourcehtml
[hellip]Michael an colleague researching wasps was excited that he had discovered in the Biodiversity Heritage Library a copy of an obscure 1860s bookSaussure H de amp Sichel J (1864) Catalogue des espegraveces de lanciengenre Scolia contenant les diagnoses les descriptions et la synonymie des espegraveces avec des remarques explicatives er critiques Genegraveve amp Paris Henri Georg amp V Masson et Fils pp 1ndash350
This book was not in our library probably not in Australia and almost impossible to get hold of without travelling to the northern hemisphereThanks to the BHL for their work in providing access to works of importance Michael is now able to use detailed content of this book in his work
John Tann Australian Museum
The Biodiversity Heritage Library Advancing Metadata Practices in a Collaborative Digital Library
Suzanne C Pilsk Smithsonian Institution Libraries Matthew Person MBLWHOI Library Joseph deVeer Ernst Mayr Library Museum of Comparative Zoology John F
Furfey MBLWHOI Library Martin R Kalfatovic Smithsonian Institution Libraries
AbstractThe Biodiversity Heritage Library is an open access digital library of taxonomic literature forming a single point of access to this collection for use by a worldwide audience of professional taxonomists as well as ldquocitizen scientistsrdquo A successful mass scanning digitization program one that creates functional and findable digital objects requires thoughtful metadata workflow that parallels the workflow of the physical items from shelf to scanner This article examines the needs of users of taxonomic literature specifically in relation to the transformation of traditional library material to digital form It details the issues that arise in determining scanning priorities avoiding duplication of scanning across the founding twelve natural history and botanical garden library collections and the problems related to the complexity of serials monographs and series Highlighted are the tools procedures and methodology for addressing the details of a mass scanning operation
A Mass Scanning Workflow
Discussion
Pilskssiedu
mpersonmbledu
Thanks to All Staff of the
BHL Members
Choose the more complete record
2 records merged into single record for this title
Holdings remain distinct for each institution
Potential second bid brewinghellip
Last step in the workflow
another view of the beehive
callingworker bees to the beehive
the bee-skyve
24 April 2009The following came from a public librarian in Falmouth Massachusetts
We recently were asked the question who discovered the zebra fish In searching the Encyclopedia of Life I kept seeing the phrase ldquoHamilton 1822rdquo next to the ldquodanio reriordquo Wondering who Hamilton was I searched WorldCat and discovered that Hamilton was Francis Hamilton who had published in 1822 An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges and its branches I looked at the EOL record and clicked on the Biodiversity Heritage Library link One of the links was to a Hamilton book In 1878 the book The Fishes of India was published which included a description and a image of the danio rerio Links were provided to the exact place in the text where the fish was mentioned as well as to the plate with the fish itself illustrated Not only that but I could send the patron the exact link to both pages which described her fish How remarkable it was to find this Harvard University book available so easily through the Biodiversity Heritage Library A great success for our patron and we looked like magicians bringing the book to her
Gary Anderson Professor Emeritus at the University of Southern Mississippi He used to make an annual trip to our stacks to xerox hundreds of articles at a time
ldquoThe Biodiversity Heritage Library is a valuable resource foracquiring crustacean literature At present a search there (httpwwwbiodiversitylibraryorgSearchaspxsearchTerm=pycnogonidampsearchCat=) will turn up 5 publications (one ofwhich was not contributed by the Smithsonian) Also note that the BHLhas scanned these and additional literature at the site for taxonomicterms and provides links to those documents There are 1592 hitsfor Pycnogonida It is likely that you could turn up a lot ofadditional articles within larger works that way Alternatively youcould perform searches for volumes of interest (if you know ofspecific references) to home in on the papers you want There willbe A LOT of additional material becoming available at that siterdquo
ldquoYesterday whilst reading the latest edition of The Entomologists Record I was pleased to find that early editions of this invaluable publication edited by the seminal entomologist James Tutt (no relation to Elviss drummer as far as I am aware) are available digitised [hellip]
So I went there and was amazed at what I found
They even have a blog What a fantastic projectrdquo
From the blog httpforteanzoologyblogspotcom200903fantastic-resourcehtml
[hellip]Michael an colleague researching wasps was excited that he had discovered in the Biodiversity Heritage Library a copy of an obscure 1860s bookSaussure H de amp Sichel J (1864) Catalogue des espegraveces de lanciengenre Scolia contenant les diagnoses les descriptions et la synonymie des espegraveces avec des remarques explicatives er critiques Genegraveve amp Paris Henri Georg amp V Masson et Fils pp 1ndash350
This book was not in our library probably not in Australia and almost impossible to get hold of without travelling to the northern hemisphereThanks to the BHL for their work in providing access to works of importance Michael is now able to use detailed content of this book in his work
John Tann Australian Museum
The Biodiversity Heritage Library Advancing Metadata Practices in a Collaborative Digital Library
Suzanne C Pilsk Smithsonian Institution Libraries Matthew Person MBLWHOI Library Joseph deVeer Ernst Mayr Library Museum of Comparative Zoology John F
Furfey MBLWHOI Library Martin R Kalfatovic Smithsonian Institution Libraries
AbstractThe Biodiversity Heritage Library is an open access digital library of taxonomic literature forming a single point of access to this collection for use by a worldwide audience of professional taxonomists as well as ldquocitizen scientistsrdquo A successful mass scanning digitization program one that creates functional and findable digital objects requires thoughtful metadata workflow that parallels the workflow of the physical items from shelf to scanner This article examines the needs of users of taxonomic literature specifically in relation to the transformation of traditional library material to digital form It details the issues that arise in determining scanning priorities avoiding duplication of scanning across the founding twelve natural history and botanical garden library collections and the problems related to the complexity of serials monographs and series Highlighted are the tools procedures and methodology for addressing the details of a mass scanning operation
A Mass Scanning Workflow
Discussion
Pilskssiedu
mpersonmbledu
Thanks to All Staff of the
BHL Members
2 records merged into single record for this title
Holdings remain distinct for each institution
Potential second bid brewinghellip
Last step in the workflow
another view of the beehive
callingworker bees to the beehive
the bee-skyve
24 April 2009The following came from a public librarian in Falmouth Massachusetts
We recently were asked the question who discovered the zebra fish In searching the Encyclopedia of Life I kept seeing the phrase ldquoHamilton 1822rdquo next to the ldquodanio reriordquo Wondering who Hamilton was I searched WorldCat and discovered that Hamilton was Francis Hamilton who had published in 1822 An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges and its branches I looked at the EOL record and clicked on the Biodiversity Heritage Library link One of the links was to a Hamilton book In 1878 the book The Fishes of India was published which included a description and a image of the danio rerio Links were provided to the exact place in the text where the fish was mentioned as well as to the plate with the fish itself illustrated Not only that but I could send the patron the exact link to both pages which described her fish How remarkable it was to find this Harvard University book available so easily through the Biodiversity Heritage Library A great success for our patron and we looked like magicians bringing the book to her
Gary Anderson Professor Emeritus at the University of Southern Mississippi He used to make an annual trip to our stacks to xerox hundreds of articles at a time
ldquoThe Biodiversity Heritage Library is a valuable resource foracquiring crustacean literature At present a search there (httpwwwbiodiversitylibraryorgSearchaspxsearchTerm=pycnogonidampsearchCat=) will turn up 5 publications (one ofwhich was not contributed by the Smithsonian) Also note that the BHLhas scanned these and additional literature at the site for taxonomicterms and provides links to those documents There are 1592 hitsfor Pycnogonida It is likely that you could turn up a lot ofadditional articles within larger works that way Alternatively youcould perform searches for volumes of interest (if you know ofspecific references) to home in on the papers you want There willbe A LOT of additional material becoming available at that siterdquo
ldquoYesterday whilst reading the latest edition of The Entomologists Record I was pleased to find that early editions of this invaluable publication edited by the seminal entomologist James Tutt (no relation to Elviss drummer as far as I am aware) are available digitised [hellip]
So I went there and was amazed at what I found
They even have a blog What a fantastic projectrdquo
From the blog httpforteanzoologyblogspotcom200903fantastic-resourcehtml
[hellip]Michael an colleague researching wasps was excited that he had discovered in the Biodiversity Heritage Library a copy of an obscure 1860s bookSaussure H de amp Sichel J (1864) Catalogue des espegraveces de lanciengenre Scolia contenant les diagnoses les descriptions et la synonymie des espegraveces avec des remarques explicatives er critiques Genegraveve amp Paris Henri Georg amp V Masson et Fils pp 1ndash350
This book was not in our library probably not in Australia and almost impossible to get hold of without travelling to the northern hemisphereThanks to the BHL for their work in providing access to works of importance Michael is now able to use detailed content of this book in his work
John Tann Australian Museum
The Biodiversity Heritage Library Advancing Metadata Practices in a Collaborative Digital Library
Suzanne C Pilsk Smithsonian Institution Libraries Matthew Person MBLWHOI Library Joseph deVeer Ernst Mayr Library Museum of Comparative Zoology John F
Furfey MBLWHOI Library Martin R Kalfatovic Smithsonian Institution Libraries
AbstractThe Biodiversity Heritage Library is an open access digital library of taxonomic literature forming a single point of access to this collection for use by a worldwide audience of professional taxonomists as well as ldquocitizen scientistsrdquo A successful mass scanning digitization program one that creates functional and findable digital objects requires thoughtful metadata workflow that parallels the workflow of the physical items from shelf to scanner This article examines the needs of users of taxonomic literature specifically in relation to the transformation of traditional library material to digital form It details the issues that arise in determining scanning priorities avoiding duplication of scanning across the founding twelve natural history and botanical garden library collections and the problems related to the complexity of serials monographs and series Highlighted are the tools procedures and methodology for addressing the details of a mass scanning operation
A Mass Scanning Workflow
Discussion
Pilskssiedu
mpersonmbledu
Thanks to All Staff of the
BHL Members
Last step in the workflow
another view of the beehive
callingworker bees to the beehive
the bee-skyve
24 April 2009The following came from a public librarian in Falmouth Massachusetts
We recently were asked the question who discovered the zebra fish In searching the Encyclopedia of Life I kept seeing the phrase ldquoHamilton 1822rdquo next to the ldquodanio reriordquo Wondering who Hamilton was I searched WorldCat and discovered that Hamilton was Francis Hamilton who had published in 1822 An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges and its branches I looked at the EOL record and clicked on the Biodiversity Heritage Library link One of the links was to a Hamilton book In 1878 the book The Fishes of India was published which included a description and a image of the danio rerio Links were provided to the exact place in the text where the fish was mentioned as well as to the plate with the fish itself illustrated Not only that but I could send the patron the exact link to both pages which described her fish How remarkable it was to find this Harvard University book available so easily through the Biodiversity Heritage Library A great success for our patron and we looked like magicians bringing the book to her
Gary Anderson Professor Emeritus at the University of Southern Mississippi He used to make an annual trip to our stacks to xerox hundreds of articles at a time
ldquoThe Biodiversity Heritage Library is a valuable resource foracquiring crustacean literature At present a search there (httpwwwbiodiversitylibraryorgSearchaspxsearchTerm=pycnogonidampsearchCat=) will turn up 5 publications (one ofwhich was not contributed by the Smithsonian) Also note that the BHLhas scanned these and additional literature at the site for taxonomicterms and provides links to those documents There are 1592 hitsfor Pycnogonida It is likely that you could turn up a lot ofadditional articles within larger works that way Alternatively youcould perform searches for volumes of interest (if you know ofspecific references) to home in on the papers you want There willbe A LOT of additional material becoming available at that siterdquo
ldquoYesterday whilst reading the latest edition of The Entomologists Record I was pleased to find that early editions of this invaluable publication edited by the seminal entomologist James Tutt (no relation to Elviss drummer as far as I am aware) are available digitised [hellip]
So I went there and was amazed at what I found
They even have a blog What a fantastic projectrdquo
From the blog httpforteanzoologyblogspotcom200903fantastic-resourcehtml
[hellip]Michael an colleague researching wasps was excited that he had discovered in the Biodiversity Heritage Library a copy of an obscure 1860s bookSaussure H de amp Sichel J (1864) Catalogue des espegraveces de lanciengenre Scolia contenant les diagnoses les descriptions et la synonymie des espegraveces avec des remarques explicatives er critiques Genegraveve amp Paris Henri Georg amp V Masson et Fils pp 1ndash350
This book was not in our library probably not in Australia and almost impossible to get hold of without travelling to the northern hemisphereThanks to the BHL for their work in providing access to works of importance Michael is now able to use detailed content of this book in his work
John Tann Australian Museum
The Biodiversity Heritage Library Advancing Metadata Practices in a Collaborative Digital Library
Suzanne C Pilsk Smithsonian Institution Libraries Matthew Person MBLWHOI Library Joseph deVeer Ernst Mayr Library Museum of Comparative Zoology John F
Furfey MBLWHOI Library Martin R Kalfatovic Smithsonian Institution Libraries
AbstractThe Biodiversity Heritage Library is an open access digital library of taxonomic literature forming a single point of access to this collection for use by a worldwide audience of professional taxonomists as well as ldquocitizen scientistsrdquo A successful mass scanning digitization program one that creates functional and findable digital objects requires thoughtful metadata workflow that parallels the workflow of the physical items from shelf to scanner This article examines the needs of users of taxonomic literature specifically in relation to the transformation of traditional library material to digital form It details the issues that arise in determining scanning priorities avoiding duplication of scanning across the founding twelve natural history and botanical garden library collections and the problems related to the complexity of serials monographs and series Highlighted are the tools procedures and methodology for addressing the details of a mass scanning operation
A Mass Scanning Workflow
Discussion
Pilskssiedu
mpersonmbledu
Thanks to All Staff of the
BHL Members
another view of the beehive
callingworker bees to the beehive
the bee-skyve
24 April 2009The following came from a public librarian in Falmouth Massachusetts
We recently were asked the question who discovered the zebra fish In searching the Encyclopedia of Life I kept seeing the phrase ldquoHamilton 1822rdquo next to the ldquodanio reriordquo Wondering who Hamilton was I searched WorldCat and discovered that Hamilton was Francis Hamilton who had published in 1822 An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges and its branches I looked at the EOL record and clicked on the Biodiversity Heritage Library link One of the links was to a Hamilton book In 1878 the book The Fishes of India was published which included a description and a image of the danio rerio Links were provided to the exact place in the text where the fish was mentioned as well as to the plate with the fish itself illustrated Not only that but I could send the patron the exact link to both pages which described her fish How remarkable it was to find this Harvard University book available so easily through the Biodiversity Heritage Library A great success for our patron and we looked like magicians bringing the book to her
Gary Anderson Professor Emeritus at the University of Southern Mississippi He used to make an annual trip to our stacks to xerox hundreds of articles at a time
ldquoThe Biodiversity Heritage Library is a valuable resource foracquiring crustacean literature At present a search there (httpwwwbiodiversitylibraryorgSearchaspxsearchTerm=pycnogonidampsearchCat=) will turn up 5 publications (one ofwhich was not contributed by the Smithsonian) Also note that the BHLhas scanned these and additional literature at the site for taxonomicterms and provides links to those documents There are 1592 hitsfor Pycnogonida It is likely that you could turn up a lot ofadditional articles within larger works that way Alternatively youcould perform searches for volumes of interest (if you know ofspecific references) to home in on the papers you want There willbe A LOT of additional material becoming available at that siterdquo
ldquoYesterday whilst reading the latest edition of The Entomologists Record I was pleased to find that early editions of this invaluable publication edited by the seminal entomologist James Tutt (no relation to Elviss drummer as far as I am aware) are available digitised [hellip]
So I went there and was amazed at what I found
They even have a blog What a fantastic projectrdquo
From the blog httpforteanzoologyblogspotcom200903fantastic-resourcehtml
[hellip]Michael an colleague researching wasps was excited that he had discovered in the Biodiversity Heritage Library a copy of an obscure 1860s bookSaussure H de amp Sichel J (1864) Catalogue des espegraveces de lanciengenre Scolia contenant les diagnoses les descriptions et la synonymie des espegraveces avec des remarques explicatives er critiques Genegraveve amp Paris Henri Georg amp V Masson et Fils pp 1ndash350
This book was not in our library probably not in Australia and almost impossible to get hold of without travelling to the northern hemisphereThanks to the BHL for their work in providing access to works of importance Michael is now able to use detailed content of this book in his work
John Tann Australian Museum
The Biodiversity Heritage Library Advancing Metadata Practices in a Collaborative Digital Library
Suzanne C Pilsk Smithsonian Institution Libraries Matthew Person MBLWHOI Library Joseph deVeer Ernst Mayr Library Museum of Comparative Zoology John F
Furfey MBLWHOI Library Martin R Kalfatovic Smithsonian Institution Libraries
AbstractThe Biodiversity Heritage Library is an open access digital library of taxonomic literature forming a single point of access to this collection for use by a worldwide audience of professional taxonomists as well as ldquocitizen scientistsrdquo A successful mass scanning digitization program one that creates functional and findable digital objects requires thoughtful metadata workflow that parallels the workflow of the physical items from shelf to scanner This article examines the needs of users of taxonomic literature specifically in relation to the transformation of traditional library material to digital form It details the issues that arise in determining scanning priorities avoiding duplication of scanning across the founding twelve natural history and botanical garden library collections and the problems related to the complexity of serials monographs and series Highlighted are the tools procedures and methodology for addressing the details of a mass scanning operation
A Mass Scanning Workflow
Discussion
Pilskssiedu
mpersonmbledu
Thanks to All Staff of the
BHL Members
callingworker bees to the beehive
the bee-skyve
24 April 2009The following came from a public librarian in Falmouth Massachusetts
We recently were asked the question who discovered the zebra fish In searching the Encyclopedia of Life I kept seeing the phrase ldquoHamilton 1822rdquo next to the ldquodanio reriordquo Wondering who Hamilton was I searched WorldCat and discovered that Hamilton was Francis Hamilton who had published in 1822 An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges and its branches I looked at the EOL record and clicked on the Biodiversity Heritage Library link One of the links was to a Hamilton book In 1878 the book The Fishes of India was published which included a description and a image of the danio rerio Links were provided to the exact place in the text where the fish was mentioned as well as to the plate with the fish itself illustrated Not only that but I could send the patron the exact link to both pages which described her fish How remarkable it was to find this Harvard University book available so easily through the Biodiversity Heritage Library A great success for our patron and we looked like magicians bringing the book to her
Gary Anderson Professor Emeritus at the University of Southern Mississippi He used to make an annual trip to our stacks to xerox hundreds of articles at a time
ldquoThe Biodiversity Heritage Library is a valuable resource foracquiring crustacean literature At present a search there (httpwwwbiodiversitylibraryorgSearchaspxsearchTerm=pycnogonidampsearchCat=) will turn up 5 publications (one ofwhich was not contributed by the Smithsonian) Also note that the BHLhas scanned these and additional literature at the site for taxonomicterms and provides links to those documents There are 1592 hitsfor Pycnogonida It is likely that you could turn up a lot ofadditional articles within larger works that way Alternatively youcould perform searches for volumes of interest (if you know ofspecific references) to home in on the papers you want There willbe A LOT of additional material becoming available at that siterdquo
ldquoYesterday whilst reading the latest edition of The Entomologists Record I was pleased to find that early editions of this invaluable publication edited by the seminal entomologist James Tutt (no relation to Elviss drummer as far as I am aware) are available digitised [hellip]
So I went there and was amazed at what I found
They even have a blog What a fantastic projectrdquo
From the blog httpforteanzoologyblogspotcom200903fantastic-resourcehtml
[hellip]Michael an colleague researching wasps was excited that he had discovered in the Biodiversity Heritage Library a copy of an obscure 1860s bookSaussure H de amp Sichel J (1864) Catalogue des espegraveces de lanciengenre Scolia contenant les diagnoses les descriptions et la synonymie des espegraveces avec des remarques explicatives er critiques Genegraveve amp Paris Henri Georg amp V Masson et Fils pp 1ndash350
This book was not in our library probably not in Australia and almost impossible to get hold of without travelling to the northern hemisphereThanks to the BHL for their work in providing access to works of importance Michael is now able to use detailed content of this book in his work
John Tann Australian Museum
The Biodiversity Heritage Library Advancing Metadata Practices in a Collaborative Digital Library
Suzanne C Pilsk Smithsonian Institution Libraries Matthew Person MBLWHOI Library Joseph deVeer Ernst Mayr Library Museum of Comparative Zoology John F
Furfey MBLWHOI Library Martin R Kalfatovic Smithsonian Institution Libraries
AbstractThe Biodiversity Heritage Library is an open access digital library of taxonomic literature forming a single point of access to this collection for use by a worldwide audience of professional taxonomists as well as ldquocitizen scientistsrdquo A successful mass scanning digitization program one that creates functional and findable digital objects requires thoughtful metadata workflow that parallels the workflow of the physical items from shelf to scanner This article examines the needs of users of taxonomic literature specifically in relation to the transformation of traditional library material to digital form It details the issues that arise in determining scanning priorities avoiding duplication of scanning across the founding twelve natural history and botanical garden library collections and the problems related to the complexity of serials monographs and series Highlighted are the tools procedures and methodology for addressing the details of a mass scanning operation
A Mass Scanning Workflow
Discussion
Pilskssiedu
mpersonmbledu
Thanks to All Staff of the
BHL Members
the bee-skyve
24 April 2009The following came from a public librarian in Falmouth Massachusetts
We recently were asked the question who discovered the zebra fish In searching the Encyclopedia of Life I kept seeing the phrase ldquoHamilton 1822rdquo next to the ldquodanio reriordquo Wondering who Hamilton was I searched WorldCat and discovered that Hamilton was Francis Hamilton who had published in 1822 An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges and its branches I looked at the EOL record and clicked on the Biodiversity Heritage Library link One of the links was to a Hamilton book In 1878 the book The Fishes of India was published which included a description and a image of the danio rerio Links were provided to the exact place in the text where the fish was mentioned as well as to the plate with the fish itself illustrated Not only that but I could send the patron the exact link to both pages which described her fish How remarkable it was to find this Harvard University book available so easily through the Biodiversity Heritage Library A great success for our patron and we looked like magicians bringing the book to her
Gary Anderson Professor Emeritus at the University of Southern Mississippi He used to make an annual trip to our stacks to xerox hundreds of articles at a time
ldquoThe Biodiversity Heritage Library is a valuable resource foracquiring crustacean literature At present a search there (httpwwwbiodiversitylibraryorgSearchaspxsearchTerm=pycnogonidampsearchCat=) will turn up 5 publications (one ofwhich was not contributed by the Smithsonian) Also note that the BHLhas scanned these and additional literature at the site for taxonomicterms and provides links to those documents There are 1592 hitsfor Pycnogonida It is likely that you could turn up a lot ofadditional articles within larger works that way Alternatively youcould perform searches for volumes of interest (if you know ofspecific references) to home in on the papers you want There willbe A LOT of additional material becoming available at that siterdquo
ldquoYesterday whilst reading the latest edition of The Entomologists Record I was pleased to find that early editions of this invaluable publication edited by the seminal entomologist James Tutt (no relation to Elviss drummer as far as I am aware) are available digitised [hellip]
So I went there and was amazed at what I found
They even have a blog What a fantastic projectrdquo
From the blog httpforteanzoologyblogspotcom200903fantastic-resourcehtml
[hellip]Michael an colleague researching wasps was excited that he had discovered in the Biodiversity Heritage Library a copy of an obscure 1860s bookSaussure H de amp Sichel J (1864) Catalogue des espegraveces de lanciengenre Scolia contenant les diagnoses les descriptions et la synonymie des espegraveces avec des remarques explicatives er critiques Genegraveve amp Paris Henri Georg amp V Masson et Fils pp 1ndash350
This book was not in our library probably not in Australia and almost impossible to get hold of without travelling to the northern hemisphereThanks to the BHL for their work in providing access to works of importance Michael is now able to use detailed content of this book in his work
John Tann Australian Museum
The Biodiversity Heritage Library Advancing Metadata Practices in a Collaborative Digital Library
Suzanne C Pilsk Smithsonian Institution Libraries Matthew Person MBLWHOI Library Joseph deVeer Ernst Mayr Library Museum of Comparative Zoology John F
Furfey MBLWHOI Library Martin R Kalfatovic Smithsonian Institution Libraries
AbstractThe Biodiversity Heritage Library is an open access digital library of taxonomic literature forming a single point of access to this collection for use by a worldwide audience of professional taxonomists as well as ldquocitizen scientistsrdquo A successful mass scanning digitization program one that creates functional and findable digital objects requires thoughtful metadata workflow that parallels the workflow of the physical items from shelf to scanner This article examines the needs of users of taxonomic literature specifically in relation to the transformation of traditional library material to digital form It details the issues that arise in determining scanning priorities avoiding duplication of scanning across the founding twelve natural history and botanical garden library collections and the problems related to the complexity of serials monographs and series Highlighted are the tools procedures and methodology for addressing the details of a mass scanning operation
A Mass Scanning Workflow
Discussion
Pilskssiedu
mpersonmbledu
Thanks to All Staff of the
BHL Members
24 April 2009The following came from a public librarian in Falmouth Massachusetts
We recently were asked the question who discovered the zebra fish In searching the Encyclopedia of Life I kept seeing the phrase ldquoHamilton 1822rdquo next to the ldquodanio reriordquo Wondering who Hamilton was I searched WorldCat and discovered that Hamilton was Francis Hamilton who had published in 1822 An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges and its branches I looked at the EOL record and clicked on the Biodiversity Heritage Library link One of the links was to a Hamilton book In 1878 the book The Fishes of India was published which included a description and a image of the danio rerio Links were provided to the exact place in the text where the fish was mentioned as well as to the plate with the fish itself illustrated Not only that but I could send the patron the exact link to both pages which described her fish How remarkable it was to find this Harvard University book available so easily through the Biodiversity Heritage Library A great success for our patron and we looked like magicians bringing the book to her
Gary Anderson Professor Emeritus at the University of Southern Mississippi He used to make an annual trip to our stacks to xerox hundreds of articles at a time
ldquoThe Biodiversity Heritage Library is a valuable resource foracquiring crustacean literature At present a search there (httpwwwbiodiversitylibraryorgSearchaspxsearchTerm=pycnogonidampsearchCat=) will turn up 5 publications (one ofwhich was not contributed by the Smithsonian) Also note that the BHLhas scanned these and additional literature at the site for taxonomicterms and provides links to those documents There are 1592 hitsfor Pycnogonida It is likely that you could turn up a lot ofadditional articles within larger works that way Alternatively youcould perform searches for volumes of interest (if you know ofspecific references) to home in on the papers you want There willbe A LOT of additional material becoming available at that siterdquo
ldquoYesterday whilst reading the latest edition of The Entomologists Record I was pleased to find that early editions of this invaluable publication edited by the seminal entomologist James Tutt (no relation to Elviss drummer as far as I am aware) are available digitised [hellip]
So I went there and was amazed at what I found
They even have a blog What a fantastic projectrdquo
From the blog httpforteanzoologyblogspotcom200903fantastic-resourcehtml
[hellip]Michael an colleague researching wasps was excited that he had discovered in the Biodiversity Heritage Library a copy of an obscure 1860s bookSaussure H de amp Sichel J (1864) Catalogue des espegraveces de lanciengenre Scolia contenant les diagnoses les descriptions et la synonymie des espegraveces avec des remarques explicatives er critiques Genegraveve amp Paris Henri Georg amp V Masson et Fils pp 1ndash350
This book was not in our library probably not in Australia and almost impossible to get hold of without travelling to the northern hemisphereThanks to the BHL for their work in providing access to works of importance Michael is now able to use detailed content of this book in his work
John Tann Australian Museum
The Biodiversity Heritage Library Advancing Metadata Practices in a Collaborative Digital Library
Suzanne C Pilsk Smithsonian Institution Libraries Matthew Person MBLWHOI Library Joseph deVeer Ernst Mayr Library Museum of Comparative Zoology John F
Furfey MBLWHOI Library Martin R Kalfatovic Smithsonian Institution Libraries
AbstractThe Biodiversity Heritage Library is an open access digital library of taxonomic literature forming a single point of access to this collection for use by a worldwide audience of professional taxonomists as well as ldquocitizen scientistsrdquo A successful mass scanning digitization program one that creates functional and findable digital objects requires thoughtful metadata workflow that parallels the workflow of the physical items from shelf to scanner This article examines the needs of users of taxonomic literature specifically in relation to the transformation of traditional library material to digital form It details the issues that arise in determining scanning priorities avoiding duplication of scanning across the founding twelve natural history and botanical garden library collections and the problems related to the complexity of serials monographs and series Highlighted are the tools procedures and methodology for addressing the details of a mass scanning operation
A Mass Scanning Workflow
Discussion
Pilskssiedu
mpersonmbledu
Thanks to All Staff of the
BHL Members
Gary Anderson Professor Emeritus at the University of Southern Mississippi He used to make an annual trip to our stacks to xerox hundreds of articles at a time
ldquoThe Biodiversity Heritage Library is a valuable resource foracquiring crustacean literature At present a search there (httpwwwbiodiversitylibraryorgSearchaspxsearchTerm=pycnogonidampsearchCat=) will turn up 5 publications (one ofwhich was not contributed by the Smithsonian) Also note that the BHLhas scanned these and additional literature at the site for taxonomicterms and provides links to those documents There are 1592 hitsfor Pycnogonida It is likely that you could turn up a lot ofadditional articles within larger works that way Alternatively youcould perform searches for volumes of interest (if you know ofspecific references) to home in on the papers you want There willbe A LOT of additional material becoming available at that siterdquo
ldquoYesterday whilst reading the latest edition of The Entomologists Record I was pleased to find that early editions of this invaluable publication edited by the seminal entomologist James Tutt (no relation to Elviss drummer as far as I am aware) are available digitised [hellip]
So I went there and was amazed at what I found
They even have a blog What a fantastic projectrdquo
From the blog httpforteanzoologyblogspotcom200903fantastic-resourcehtml
[hellip]Michael an colleague researching wasps was excited that he had discovered in the Biodiversity Heritage Library a copy of an obscure 1860s bookSaussure H de amp Sichel J (1864) Catalogue des espegraveces de lanciengenre Scolia contenant les diagnoses les descriptions et la synonymie des espegraveces avec des remarques explicatives er critiques Genegraveve amp Paris Henri Georg amp V Masson et Fils pp 1ndash350
This book was not in our library probably not in Australia and almost impossible to get hold of without travelling to the northern hemisphereThanks to the BHL for their work in providing access to works of importance Michael is now able to use detailed content of this book in his work
John Tann Australian Museum
The Biodiversity Heritage Library Advancing Metadata Practices in a Collaborative Digital Library
Suzanne C Pilsk Smithsonian Institution Libraries Matthew Person MBLWHOI Library Joseph deVeer Ernst Mayr Library Museum of Comparative Zoology John F
Furfey MBLWHOI Library Martin R Kalfatovic Smithsonian Institution Libraries
AbstractThe Biodiversity Heritage Library is an open access digital library of taxonomic literature forming a single point of access to this collection for use by a worldwide audience of professional taxonomists as well as ldquocitizen scientistsrdquo A successful mass scanning digitization program one that creates functional and findable digital objects requires thoughtful metadata workflow that parallels the workflow of the physical items from shelf to scanner This article examines the needs of users of taxonomic literature specifically in relation to the transformation of traditional library material to digital form It details the issues that arise in determining scanning priorities avoiding duplication of scanning across the founding twelve natural history and botanical garden library collections and the problems related to the complexity of serials monographs and series Highlighted are the tools procedures and methodology for addressing the details of a mass scanning operation
A Mass Scanning Workflow
Discussion
Pilskssiedu
mpersonmbledu
Thanks to All Staff of the
BHL Members
ldquoYesterday whilst reading the latest edition of The Entomologists Record I was pleased to find that early editions of this invaluable publication edited by the seminal entomologist James Tutt (no relation to Elviss drummer as far as I am aware) are available digitised [hellip]
So I went there and was amazed at what I found
They even have a blog What a fantastic projectrdquo
From the blog httpforteanzoologyblogspotcom200903fantastic-resourcehtml
[hellip]Michael an colleague researching wasps was excited that he had discovered in the Biodiversity Heritage Library a copy of an obscure 1860s bookSaussure H de amp Sichel J (1864) Catalogue des espegraveces de lanciengenre Scolia contenant les diagnoses les descriptions et la synonymie des espegraveces avec des remarques explicatives er critiques Genegraveve amp Paris Henri Georg amp V Masson et Fils pp 1ndash350
This book was not in our library probably not in Australia and almost impossible to get hold of without travelling to the northern hemisphereThanks to the BHL for their work in providing access to works of importance Michael is now able to use detailed content of this book in his work
John Tann Australian Museum
The Biodiversity Heritage Library Advancing Metadata Practices in a Collaborative Digital Library
Suzanne C Pilsk Smithsonian Institution Libraries Matthew Person MBLWHOI Library Joseph deVeer Ernst Mayr Library Museum of Comparative Zoology John F
Furfey MBLWHOI Library Martin R Kalfatovic Smithsonian Institution Libraries
AbstractThe Biodiversity Heritage Library is an open access digital library of taxonomic literature forming a single point of access to this collection for use by a worldwide audience of professional taxonomists as well as ldquocitizen scientistsrdquo A successful mass scanning digitization program one that creates functional and findable digital objects requires thoughtful metadata workflow that parallels the workflow of the physical items from shelf to scanner This article examines the needs of users of taxonomic literature specifically in relation to the transformation of traditional library material to digital form It details the issues that arise in determining scanning priorities avoiding duplication of scanning across the founding twelve natural history and botanical garden library collections and the problems related to the complexity of serials monographs and series Highlighted are the tools procedures and methodology for addressing the details of a mass scanning operation
A Mass Scanning Workflow
Discussion
Pilskssiedu
mpersonmbledu
Thanks to All Staff of the
BHL Members
[hellip]Michael an colleague researching wasps was excited that he had discovered in the Biodiversity Heritage Library a copy of an obscure 1860s bookSaussure H de amp Sichel J (1864) Catalogue des espegraveces de lanciengenre Scolia contenant les diagnoses les descriptions et la synonymie des espegraveces avec des remarques explicatives er critiques Genegraveve amp Paris Henri Georg amp V Masson et Fils pp 1ndash350
This book was not in our library probably not in Australia and almost impossible to get hold of without travelling to the northern hemisphereThanks to the BHL for their work in providing access to works of importance Michael is now able to use detailed content of this book in his work
John Tann Australian Museum
The Biodiversity Heritage Library Advancing Metadata Practices in a Collaborative Digital Library
Suzanne C Pilsk Smithsonian Institution Libraries Matthew Person MBLWHOI Library Joseph deVeer Ernst Mayr Library Museum of Comparative Zoology John F
Furfey MBLWHOI Library Martin R Kalfatovic Smithsonian Institution Libraries
AbstractThe Biodiversity Heritage Library is an open access digital library of taxonomic literature forming a single point of access to this collection for use by a worldwide audience of professional taxonomists as well as ldquocitizen scientistsrdquo A successful mass scanning digitization program one that creates functional and findable digital objects requires thoughtful metadata workflow that parallels the workflow of the physical items from shelf to scanner This article examines the needs of users of taxonomic literature specifically in relation to the transformation of traditional library material to digital form It details the issues that arise in determining scanning priorities avoiding duplication of scanning across the founding twelve natural history and botanical garden library collections and the problems related to the complexity of serials monographs and series Highlighted are the tools procedures and methodology for addressing the details of a mass scanning operation
A Mass Scanning Workflow
Discussion
Pilskssiedu
mpersonmbledu
Thanks to All Staff of the
BHL Members
The Biodiversity Heritage Library Advancing Metadata Practices in a Collaborative Digital Library
Suzanne C Pilsk Smithsonian Institution Libraries Matthew Person MBLWHOI Library Joseph deVeer Ernst Mayr Library Museum of Comparative Zoology John F
Furfey MBLWHOI Library Martin R Kalfatovic Smithsonian Institution Libraries
AbstractThe Biodiversity Heritage Library is an open access digital library of taxonomic literature forming a single point of access to this collection for use by a worldwide audience of professional taxonomists as well as ldquocitizen scientistsrdquo A successful mass scanning digitization program one that creates functional and findable digital objects requires thoughtful metadata workflow that parallels the workflow of the physical items from shelf to scanner This article examines the needs of users of taxonomic literature specifically in relation to the transformation of traditional library material to digital form It details the issues that arise in determining scanning priorities avoiding duplication of scanning across the founding twelve natural history and botanical garden library collections and the problems related to the complexity of serials monographs and series Highlighted are the tools procedures and methodology for addressing the details of a mass scanning operation
A Mass Scanning Workflow
Discussion
Pilskssiedu
mpersonmbledu
Thanks to All Staff of the
BHL Members
A Mass Scanning Workflow
Discussion
Pilskssiedu
mpersonmbledu
Thanks to All Staff of the
BHL Members
