Current Status-Future Plans
May 31, 2011Thomas Garnett
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BHL ContentThe Biodiversity Heritage Library has the largest
collection of full-text digitized biodiversity literature in the world.
No other repository is even close.34,500,000 pages – 91,600 volumes.
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The Bleeding Obvious - Why?
A major component of the well-documented “taxonomic impediment” is being eliminated. This will help accelerate the glacial pace of documenting the world’s biota. Revisions to taxonomy require reading all prior work.
EOL (and other integrator projects) will have vastly increased source data for species to draw on.
The published record is available and preserved in network space. What is and what is not the “record” is a complex subject in digital network space.
Repatriation of knowledge to high-biodiversity countries.
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BHL Operates in Different Domains
Biodiversity ResearchPublishing WorldLibrary Community
Biodiversity Sciences and informatics
Publishers Libraries
BHL
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Work with Not Against
To digitize and mount works under copyright BHL must obtain permission from the copyright holders.
Many biodiversity journals and monographs are published by non-profit institutions or learned societies whose mission is to promote research and learning.
Some of these institutions have not sold their rights to commercial publishers and are open to sharing with the BHL.
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Use Expertise
Working with legal counsel at the Smithsonian and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, we prepared a permission agreement that we send to prospective publishing partners.For more background see https://bhl.wikispaces.com/Copyright+Issueshttps://bhl.wikispaces.com/Article+Index+Copyright
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Ability to Deliver
Permissions for > 160 journal titles and growing. A global cooperation to incentivize other national-level
projects to host and preserve the content. A fruitful collaboration with the Internet Archive that has
provide high-quality scanning and free storage infrastructure.
The ability to deliver more content through scanning if funding is made available.
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Documented Export Methods
> 160 journal titles and growing.
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CiteBank Developments
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BHL CiteBank stats as of April 30
* Total citations: 72213 * Citations with PDFs from BHL: 19779 * Citations without PDFs attached: 52434 * Citations from BHL: 63673 * Citations from Scielo: 6252 * Citations from various sources: 1283 * Citations from Zookeys: 341
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BHL Next Steps
Digital PreservationIncreased contentIncreased servicesHow to integrate with and contribute to
the emerging practices of CYBERTAXONOMY
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BHL Digital Preservation
Committed to long-term storage, curation, and preservation of digital text assets for the world-wide biodiversity community
BHL is a steward for this literature. To keep this content available and open for
the future requires careful organizational planning.
Preservation is both a technical and political/social process.
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BHL Digital Preservation
Content stored redundantly in geographically separated repositories.
Running on different architechtures. Under separate and different adminstrative
policies. No mono-culture pathologies.
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BHL: US/UK
Academy of Natural Science (Philadelphia, PA) American Museum of Natural History (New York, NY) California Academy of Science (San Francisco, CA) The Field Museum (Chicago, IL) Harvard University Botany Libraries (Cambridge, MA) Harvard University, Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of
Comparative Zoology (Cambridge, MA) Marine Biological Laboratory / Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institution (Woods Hole, MA) Missouri Botanical Garden (St. Louis, MO) Natural History Museum (London, UK) The New York Botanical Garden (New York, NY) Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Richmond, UK) Smithsonian Institution Libraries (Washington, DC)
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BHL Partner: BHL-Europe
Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Natural History Museum, UK Narodni muzeum NMP CZ Angewandte Informationstechnik
Forschungsgesellschaft mbH Freie Universität Berlin FUBBGBM Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Stiftung Öffentlichen Rechts Naturhistorisches Museum Wien Hungarian Natural History Museum Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish
Academy of Sciences University of Copenhagen
Stichting Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum, Naturalis
National Botanic Garden of Belgium Royal Museum for Central Africa, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences Bibliothèque nationale de France Museum national d’histoire naturelle Consejo Superior de Investigaciones
Cientificas Università degli Studi di Firenze Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh Species 2000 John Wiley & Sons limited Helsingin yliopisto UH-Viikki
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BHL Partner: BHL-ChinaChinese Academy of Science – Institute of
BotanyChinese Academy of Science – Institute of
ZoologyChinese Academy of Science – Institute of
MicrobiologyChinese Academy Science - Institute of
Oceanography
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BHL Partner: BHL-China
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BHL Partner: BHL-China
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BHL Partner: BHL-AustraliaAtlas of Living Australia (ALA)Museum VictoriaAustralian digitizing projects
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BHL Partner: BHL South AmericaBIREME/SciElo (Scientific Electronic Library
Online)Museum of Zoology, University of São PauloNational Biodiversity Program, Ministry of
EnvironmentSeveral museum and herbaria librariesWill coordinate integration with other South
American initiatives
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BHL Partner: EgyptBiblioteca Alexandrina
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Proposed Global Governance Chart