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Crowd-sourcing the creation of “articles” within the Biodiversity Heritage Library

Crowd-sourcing the creation of “articles” within the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Bianca Crowley crowleyb@si.edu. Trish Rose- Sandler trish.rose-sandler@mobot.org. The BHL is…. A consortium of 13 natural history, botanical libraries and research institutions

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Crowd-sourcing the creation of “articles” within the Biodiversity Heritage Library

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  1. Crowd-sourcing the creation of “articles” within the Biodiversity Heritage Library Bianca Crowley crowleyb@si.edu Trish Rose-Sandler trish.rose-sandler@mobot.org

  2. The BHL is… A consortium of 13 natural history, botanical libraries and research institutions An open access digital library for legacy biodiversity literature. An open data repository of taxonomic names and bibliographic information An increasingly global effort BHL

  3. Problem: Books vs. Articles Librarians manage books Users need articles BHL

  4. Solution: “Article-ization” Page, R. (2011). Extracting scientific articles from a large digital archive: BioStor and the Biodiversity Heritage Library. BMC Bioinformatics, 12(187). Retrieved from http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/12/187 Creating articles manually, through the help of our users: BHL PDF Generator Creating articles through automated means: BioStorhttp://biostor.org/issn/0006-324X BHL

  5. BHL

  6. Create-your-own PDF BHL

  7. Citebank today: http://citebank.org BHL

  8. What is an “article” anyway? BHL

  9. the Good, the Bad, the Ugly BHL

  10. the Good, the Bad, the Ugly BHL

  11. the Good, the Bad, the Ugly BHL

  12. Questions for Data Analysis What is the quality, or accuracy, of user provided metadata? What kinds of content are users creating? How can we improve the PDF generator interface? BHL

  13. Stats • Jan 2010-Apr 2011 • Approx 60,000 pdfs created from PDF Generator • 40% of those (approx 24,000) were ingested into CiteBank(PDFs without user-contributedmetadata excluded) • 5 reviewers analyzed 945 pdfs (approx 3.9% of the 24,000+ articles going into Citebank) **Thanks to reviewers Gilbert Borrego, Grace Costantino, and Sue Graves from the Smithsonian Institution BHL

  14. Methodological approach Quantitative – numerical rating system Rated titles, authors, beg/end pages Its “findability” within CiteBank search often determined how it was rated BHL

  15. Ratings System Title • 1=has all characters in title letter for letter • 2=does not have all characters in title letter for letter but still findable in CiteBank search • 3= does not have all characters in title letter for letter and is NOT findable via the CiteBank search BHL

  16. Ratings System Author • 1=has all characters in author(s) last name letter for letter • 2=has at least one author’s last name spelled correctly • 3=has no authors or none of the author’s last names are spelled correctly BHL

  17. Ratings System Article beginning & ending pages • 1=has all text pages for an article, from start to end • 2=subset of pages from a larger article • 3=a set of pages where the intellectual content has been compromised. BHL

  18. Analysis steps

  19. Results BHL

  20. What did we learn? Ratings were better than we expected Many users took the time to create decent metadata “good enough” is not great but is still “findable” BHL

  21. BHL-Australia’s new portalhttp://bhl.ala.org.au/ But of course….. Other factors there’s always room for improvement BHL

  22. Changes we madefor UI so far • Asking users if they want to contribute their article to CiteBank • Making article title a required field and validating it so its at least 2 or more characters •  Review button for users to review page selections and metadata (inspired by BHL-AUS) • Reduced text and increased more intuitive graphics (inspired by BHL-AUS) BHL

  23. Brief survey of proposed changes But of course….. there’s always room for improvement Overwhelmingly positive response to proposed change BHL

  24. Success Factors Monitor the creation of the metadata to look at user behavior and patterns Engage with your users Incentivize your users

  25. http://biodiversitylibrary.org @BioDivLibrary/pages/Biodiversity-Heritage-Library/63547246565/photos/biodivlibrary/sets//group/biodiversity-heritage-library Bianca Crowley crowleyb@si.edu Trish Rose-Sandler trish.rose-sandler@mobot.org BHL

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