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The Biodiversity Heritage Library
Martin R. KalfatovicSmithsonian Libraries
Biodiversity Heritage LibraryFulbright Academy Open Board Meeting
15 February 02013 | Washington, DC
The cultivation of natural science cannot be efficiently carried on without reference to an extensive library
Charles Darwin, et al (1847)
The Wherefore of BHL
Specimen collections
Databases
Publications
Observations
‘Gray’ literature
Index cards
Field notebooks
Taxonomic Impediment
Technology Library Science
Biodiversity Heritage Library
15 Member institutions …Formed in 2006
15 Members•Academy of Natural Sciences Library and Archives•American Museum of Natural History Library•California Academy of Sciences Library•Cornell University Library•The Field Museum Library•Harvard University Botany Libraries•Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology•Library of Congress•Marine Biological Laboratory and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Library•Missouri Botanical Garden Library•Natural History Museum, London, Library & Archives •The New York Botanical Garden•Royal Botanic Garden, Kew, Library & Archives•Smithsonian Institution Libraries•United States Geological Survey Libraries
Secretariat and Technical StaffAugust 2011Program Director
Program ManagerCollections Coordinator
Technical DirectorProgrammerData Analyst
40,329,911pages111,310 items58,210 titles
11 February 2013
Content Growth2007-2013
Cornell ingest | Dec 201114,45814,458
Items Added: Past 12 Months
Average: 1,204 / month
User Statistics: 2007 - 2012Visitors: 3,628,088Page Views: 17,604,395New vs. Returning: 48.88% vs. 50.12%
2007
2012112,584 visitors | March 2012
233 countriesUsers in 233 Countries
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Increase agreements with publishers of in copyright materials
(up from ~250)
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Images (JP2)PDFCoordinate-based OCRXML metadata
BHL Architecture: Window Seat Ed.
BHL DBBHL DB
Internet ArchiveInternet Archive
Storage
Logic
APIsAPIs UIUI DataExportsData
Exports
Access
Data TransformUtilities
Data TransformUtilities
GeocodingGeocoding
Name FindingName
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The Biodiversity Heritage Library: 2006
Experiment with taxonomic markup
Smithsonian Contributions and Studies SeriesCollaboration with Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press1,000+ titles; 100,000 pages
3.8 million total views | 63,000 images (13 Feb 13)
233 countriesUsers in 233 Countries
June 2012
Over 30 librarians, scientists, informaticians gathered in Cape Town, South Africa to start the formation of the BHL Africa node; funded by JRS Foundation
Trish Rose-Sandler, Missouri Botanical GardenDLF Forum 2012 Denver CO Art of Life project
FacebookTotal Page Likes: 4,384
Twitter @ BioDivLibraryTotal Followers: 2,369
Pinterest2,373 images & 16 collections
BlogTotal Visits: 9,096(2Q13)
BHL Social MediaFebruary 2013
Outreach
“Thank you much for your help. It is so useful as I am right now working on the fishes of Ganges. Moreover it is so great that the library provides classic literature on fishes and it was a dream to me [when] I started my taxonomy ten years back. It is marvellous [what] you did for us which are badly in need of old literature. Thanks a lot.”“Thank you much for your help. It is so useful as I am right now working on the fishes of Ganges. Moreover it is so great that the library provides classic literature on fishes and it was a dream to me [when] I started my taxonomy ten years back. It is marvellous [what] you did for us which are badly in need of old literature. Thanks a lot.”
What an absolutely wonderful site. It is a treasure trove of information. Thank you!
May I compliment you on this splendid service? The Library's invaluable for my work on seasonal
variability of climate and vector-borne disease in British India, 1875-1940.
I really appreciate your work. The Biodiversity Heritage Library is an excellent resource that regularly helps my assistant and I obtain original descriptions for plants .... I feel so privileged to be working in a day in age when such resources are so readily available and easy to obtain.
Looking Forward
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.
Charles Davies Sherborn Epilogue to Index Animalium, March 1922
Thanks … Questions and Discussion