biodiversity heritage library update: smithsonian institution libraries (january - september 2007)

Martin R. Kalfatovic : Smithsonian Institution LibrariesBiodiversity Heritage Library Meeting / Missouri Botanical Garden : 12 September 2007

Biodiversity Heritage LibraryUpdate

Smithsonian Institution Libraries

January – September 2007

Martin R. KalfatovicSmithsonian Institution Libraries

12 September 2007


Funding

August 2007SIL received $200,000 for FY 2007-08 from the Under Secretary for Science from the Seidell Fund to support BHL activities


Organizational

11 April 2007Organizational. Smithsonian Institution Libraries forms the SIL BHL Task force comprised of eight staff and charged with overseeing all SIL BHL related activities


Organizational

● Marcia Adams, Assistant Director for Technical Services

● Laudine Creighton, Administrative Officer

● Ann Juneau, Librarian, Natural and Physical Sciences

● Eliza Gilligan, Head, Preservation Services and Chief Conservator

● Keri Thompson, Digital Projects Librarian

● Suzanne Pilsk, Metadata Librarian

● Courtney Shaw, Invertebrate Zoology Librarian

● Martin Kalfatovic, Head, New Media Office (Chair)


Staffing

● September 2007. SIL begin the process of hiring a library technician to support BHL activities


Scribe Scanning

● 5 May 2007. The Smithsonian Scribe machine arrived in Washington

● 15 August 2007. Internet Archive staffer Melissa Bell arrives in Washington

● 20 August 2007. Scanning begins in earnest at the Smithsonian


Scribe Scanning

● Scanning Stats (through September 10, 2007): 38 volumes 12,574 pages


Scribe Scanning● 184 items on picklists - starting 8/2 ending

9/6 (one month!)

● 111 items selected for scanning (in process)

● 84 rejects (on further notice, or by the scanner)

● 2 copyright post 1923 (bib data did not match item data, puller didn't look at item closely)

● 7 foldouts

● 4 NOS, recalled

● 39 out of scope (mostly dictionaries and atlases)

● 4 non book (rejected in picklist before going to shelf)


Scribe Scanning● 24 dups (including c.2s and items

already scanned by SI)

● 2 rejected by scanner for tight margins

● 2 rejected by scanner for size limitations

● 3 rejected by SI conservator because they were too brittle/falling apart etc.

● 35 have been scanned

● 22 have been "curated"

● of the 13 that haven't been curated yet, 5 have truncated metadata and 5 have incorrect metadata (bound-withs)


Meetings

● 11 February 2007. Martin Kalfatovic (Smithsonian), Chris Freeland (MOBOT), Cathy Norton (MBLWHOI), and Neil Sarkar (MBLWHOI) attended the EOL Informatics Workshop meeting at Woods Hole, Mass.


Meetings

● 16 February 2007. Martin Kalfatovic (Smithsonian), Chris Freeland (MOBOT), and Neil Sarkar (MBLWHOI) attended the Data Curation meeting held at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign


Meetings

● 10 May 2007. The BHL Executive Board met in Washington, DC


EOL Launch

● 9 May 2007. Washington, D.C. BHL Members present: Marine Biological Laboratory/Woods Hole

Oceanographic Institution: Cathy Norton

Missouri Botanical Garden: Chuck Miller, Chris Freeland

Natural History Museum: Graham Higley

Smithsonian: Nancy Gwinn, Mary Augusta Thomas, Marcia Adams, Tom Garnett, Martin Kalfatovic, Keri Thompson, Suzanne Pilsk


Presentations

● 21 January 2007. Suzanne Pilsk gave an overview of metadata needs for the BHL at the Networked Resources and Metadata Interest Group meeting in at the ALA Midwinter meeting in Seattle, WA

● 12 April 2007. “Biodiversity Heritage Library” by Tom Garnett, Smithsonian Institution Libraries. National Museum of Natural History Board, Science Committee. Washington, DC


Presentations

● 8 May 2007. “The Biodiversity Heritage Library: A Cornerstone of the Encyclopedia of Life” by Martin R. Kalfatovic, Smithsonian Institution Libraries. The Field Museum of Natural History. Chicago, IL.


Presentations

● 15 May 2007. “Presentation. Open Access to Biodiversity Literature: The Biodiversity Heritage Library. Tom Garnett and Martin R. Kalfatovic, Smithsonian Institution Libraries. American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) Council Meeting. Washington, DC.


Presentations

● 25 June 25 2007. SIL hosted as BHL member staff gave presentations to a group of about 50 librarians attending the American Library Association Annual meeting in Washington, DC.:

Martin R. Kalfatovic, SIL John Mignault, NYBG Robert Miller, Internet Archive


Picture Credits

● Plates and other historical images available from the Smithsonian Institution Libraries' Galaxy of Images:http://www.sil.si.edu/ImageGalaxy/

● Additional images from Biodiversity Heritage Library events can be found at: http://flickr.com/groups/bhl/

● Other photography: Martin R. Kalfatovic

biodiversity heritage library update: smithsonian institution libraries (january - september 2007)

Technology

martin kalfatovic smithsonian

smithsonian scribe machine

bhl activities

scribe scanning scanning

graham higley smithsonian

sil bhl related activities

group meeting

library technician