bhl overview for gpo interagency seminar
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Biodiversity Heritage Library: Disseminating Content Beyond the Silo
Bianca Crowley Collections Coordinator
Free biodiversity literature & data for
everyone!
http://biodiversitylibrary.org
Now online61,401 titles
116,078 volumes
41.2 million pages
• New user interface launched in March• Search by title, author, article, subjects and scientific
names• Various download options, even high resolution• Taxonomic name finding algorithm• Machine-to-machine services
BHL Overview
• Open access• Open data• Deconstruct the silo and deliver content where users
are already working– Via other biodiversity websites and taxonomic resources– Via social media platforms like our blog, flickr, Facebook,
Twitter, Pinterest, &etc.
• Involve users in collection and technical development activities
Core Principles
Core BHL Member Institutions
Now online6900+ titles
18,000 volumes
7 million+ pages
Global Partners
Scanning Locally, Coordinating Globally
User Feedback is Critical
General feedback form Scan request form
http://biodiversitylibrary.org/contact
Beyond the Silo: Open Data
Amblyopsis
Formica sanguinea
Trifolium pratense
On the Origin of Species
By Charles Darwin (1859)
Bibliographic data for 61,000+ titlesScientific name data for 150 million+ taxa
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Free data. Come and get it!
-BHL
Beyond the Silo: Open Data
Open Data Policy
APIsApplication
Programming Interfaces
Stable URLs
OAI-PMHOpen Archive
Initiative – Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
Data Exports
Beyond the Silo: Open Data
Beyond the Silo: Social Media
@BioDivLibrary
www.facebook.com/BioDivLibrary
blog.biodiversitylibrary.org
http://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/sets
pinterest.com/biodivlibrary
Impact• “BHL came to the rescue when a planned trip to work in the Mertz Library at The New
York Botanical Garden had to be cancelled due to Hurricane Sandy. Thanks to the online resources available through BHL I was able to source most of the key works I needed, with their supporting bibliographic information. Further use of BHL occurred when building work at the Linnean Society of London limited access to some of the book I had been able to use from that collection."
• “I would like thank you all very much for invaluable work and support you do. I just got a pdf-file from more than century old (1893) journal paper (regional naturalist society paper, published in Finland), to get copy I should take 500 mile drive to our university library. Now I am got it fastly in high-quality pdf-copy. Cordial thanks and all success in continuing your highly valuable mission.” [conservation biologist from Estonia]
• “You are a wonderful resource. I maintain a Website that describes the plant genus Opuntia (prickly pear cacti). There is no way I could maintain such a site without access to literature from 100-200 years ago. Most of the cactus species were discovered long ago; I find it invaluable to put up PDF files to document each species in the literature as I document them photographically. I am a botanist, but I work in the pharmaceutical field (not so many botanical jobs out there). Your library makes it possible for me to continue working with plants in a meaningful and scientific manner.”
Thank youhttp://biodiversitylibrary.org
Bianca Crowley, [email protected]