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Open Scientific Digital Libraries The Biodiversity Heritage Library

Open Scientific Digital Libraries The Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin R. Kalfatovic Smithsonian Libraries Digital Libraries for North Africa / Maghreb Fulbright Academy of Science & Technology Washington, DC 24-25 January 2011. Taxonomic Impediment. Specimen collections Databases

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Open Scientific Digital Libraries The Biodiversity Heritage Library

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  1. Open Scientific Digital LibrariesThe Biodiversity Heritage Library Martin R. Kalfatovic Smithsonian Libraries Digital Libraries for North Africa / Maghreb Fulbright Academy of Science & Technology Washington, DC 24-25 January 2011

  2. Taxonomic Impediment • Specimen collections • Databases • Publications • Observations • ‘Gray’ literature • Index cards • Field notebooks

  3. Smithsonian Institution Libraries Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Missouri Botanical Garden Academy of Natural Sciences (Philadelphia) Marine Biological Laboratory/WHOI Harvard Botany Libraries Biodiversity Heritage Library2005-2009 • American Museum of Natural History • Field Museum • California Academy of Sciences • Museum of Comparative Zoology (Harvard) • New York Botanical Garden • Natural History Museum (London)

  4. Goals > Digitization of biodiversity literature > Creation of a global partnership > Engagement of the research community

  5. 33+ million pages of Taxonomic literature

  6. 1.5+ million users

  7. Six Continents

  8. Global BHL Based on open access Open content Collaboration Shared development

  9. Services Names Service Return all occurrences of a name throughout BHL digitized corpus Documentation: http://bit.ly/2e6sg9 Access to 51million name strings using TaxonFinder 1.4million unique names Working out a strategy for obscure species Algorithm improvements to detect nomenclatural & taxonomic acts OpenURL Facilitate links to citations: protologues, articles, references Documentation: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/openurlhelp.aspx Useful to Nomenclators, Reference Systems IPNI Tropicos

  10. Global data sharing requiresa social infrastructure

  11. What Users Say Dear Sir / Madam Can I just congratulate you on an absolutely brilliant online resource. I am compiling a report on an invasive hydromedusae and could not believe the ease and efficiency of this web page which genuinely saved me weeks of my life Just a quick line to thank you and your organisation for the foresight and generosity in allowing these works to be dowloaded. Dear Biodiversity Heritage Library: I am in awe of your work. Thank you so much. As an illustrator who scans a lot of my work, I know how very onerous the task is. Many thanks!

  12. The Biodiversity Heritage Library Extensive. Open. Global.

  13. Thank You Thanks to: Chris Freeland & Team BHL Global

  14. Open Scientific Digital LibrariesThe Biodiversity Heritage Library Martin R. Kalfatovic Smithsonian Libraries Digital Libraries for North Africa / Maghreb Fulbright Academy of Science & Technology Washington, DC 24-25 January 2011

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