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The Biodiversity Heritage Library Mass Digitizing Project: A Grandeur in this View of Digital Libraries by Martin R. Kalfatovic and Suzanne C. Pilsk, Smithsonian Institution Libraries. LITA National Forum, October 2007. Denver, Colorado.TRANSCRIPT
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A Grandeur in this View of Digital Libraries
Martin R. KalfatovicSuzanne C. Pilsk
Smithsonian Institution Libraries
LITA Forum6 October 2007
Denver, Colorado
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There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species, 1859
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Boutique Scanning Scanning back
cameras All special handling Slow production Expensive
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Rare Books Obvious choice “Pretty pictures”
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Rare Books Rarely had textual
access (OCR, etc.) Difficult to link to other
materials
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Mass Scanning Projects
Google Books MSN Live Internet Archive/Open
Content Alliance
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Difficult (impossible?) to repurpose much of the material
Quality of images often questionable
“Frankenbooks” Sketchy / inaccurate
bibliographic data
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Content is more re-purposable than Google
Content not fully open Nice search interface Still, no context!
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Open Access Hodge-podge of collections Interface hard to use! Still, no, or very little context
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United States Exploring Expedition
Biologia Centrali-Americana
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Biologia Centrali-Americana Large scale content and
repurposing text Innotaxa
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Our Man Sherborn – the Squire Cataloger at heart Slowly went through every
relevant text looking for names Created an index that was
useful as soon as he started Index AND Bibliography of
relevant texts from 1758 through 1850
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• Re-keying of data
• Parsing data
• Using tools to harvest out data
• Manually matching data
• Wealth of information locked on the page is being liberated!
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Current Uses Look up individual species Batch whole data sets for
comparisons Future Possibilities
Updated species information Accurate images of species Geographic distributions Other databases can link (such as
uBio) Future prioritizing of scans
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Demonstration I: Index Animalium and Nomenclature Zoologicus http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/indexanimalium/http://uio.mbl.edu/NomenclatorZoologicus/
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Nomina si nescis, perit et cognitio rerum
Who knoweth not the name, knoweth not the subject
~ Linnaeus, 1737, Critica Botanica n. 210
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Over 250 years of systematic description of life
Systema naturae (10th ed. 1758) by Carl von Linné
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Binomial Nomenclature Genus name and
Species epithet or descriptor
Latin or Latin-ized Bill Gates' Flower Fly Eristalis gatesi
Thompson
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St. Louis Code of International Code of Botanical Nomenclature
International Code of Zoological Nomenclature
International Code of Phylogenetic Nomenclature
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Index Animalium’s Citation:
albimanus Delphinus, T. R. Peale in Wilkes, Expl. Exped. VIII. 1848, 33
On page 33, of volume 8 of Charles Wilke’s 1848 publication:Narrative of the United State Exploring Expedition the Delphinus albmimanus was first named by T.R. Peale.
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Agatea violarisType specimen from the U.S. National Herbarium (Smithsonian Institution) collected by the United States Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842
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- Specimen- Plate or other visual image- Taxonomic description
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The cited half-life of publications in taxonomy is longer than in any other scientific discipline
* * * The decay rate is longer than in any scientific discipline~ Macro-economic case for open access, Tom Moritz
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Taxonomic descriptions must be published for the name to be valid
Publications must be available to the public through trusted sources
Libraries have been the traditional place
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Specimen collections
Databases
Publications
Observations
‘Gray’ literature
Index cards
Field notebooks
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Biologia Centrali-Americana. Edited by Frederick Ducane Godman and Osbert Salvin. London : Pub. for the editors by R. H. Porter, 1879-1915
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Vishwas Chavan travels a lot. An informatician based at the National Chemical Laboratory in Pune, India, he collects data on what types of animal live where in India to enter into a biodiversity database … Much of the information Chavan seeks is in old, out-of-print tomes … To find them, Chavan has spent years trailing around libraries. He dreams of the day when books such as these are scanned and made available as digital files on the Internet.
“Science in the Web Age: The Real Death of Print”by Andreas von Bubnoff
Nature 438, 550-552 1 December 2005
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What is Biodiversity? Ecosystems and
landscapes Diversity of species Genetic variability within
species
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• Wholesome food• Drinkable water• Breathable air• Stable climate for– Forestry– Agriculture– Fisheries
• Waste decomposition• Bioremediation• Invasive species• Pest control• Ecotourism
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• Pharmaceuticals• Genomics• Proteomics• Bioengineering• Biotechnology• Molecular design• Imitating nature• Designer organisms• Renewable feedstocks• Envirofriendly• Manufacturing processes
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BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE LIBRARY 2003, Telluride. Encyclopedia of Life meeting
February 2005. London. Library and Laboratory: the Marriage of Research, Data and Taxonomic Literature
May 2005. Washington. Ground work for the Biodiversity Heritage Library
June 2006. Washington. Organizational and Technical meeting
August 2006. New York Botanical Garden. BHL Director’s Meeting.
October 2006. St. Louis/San Francisco. Technical meetings
February 2007. Museum of Comparative Zoology. Organizational meeting
May 2007. Encylopedia of Life Launch. Washington DC.
September 2007. Missouri Botanical Garden. Technical and Organizational Meeting. St. Louis, Missouri.
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American Museum of Natural History (New York)
Field Museum (Chicago) Natural History Museum
(London) Smithsonian Institution
(Washington) Missouri Botanical Garden
(St. Louis)
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New York Botanical Garden (New York)
Royal Botanic Garden, Kew Botany Libraries, Harvard
University Ernst Mayr Library of the
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University
Marine Biological Laboratory / Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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• Core literature pre-1923: 400,000 (80 million pages)
• All pre-1923: 600-750,000 (120-150 million pages)
• All literature: 1.4-1.6 million (280-320 million pages)
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Most literature is in the developed world the Northern
Hemisphere
Most Biodiversity is in developing world the Southern
Hemisphere
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Most literature is in large libraries
formed in the 19th century
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Who has what?
What should we scan and when?
Monographs vs Serials
Series treated as separates
Can it be found and used once scanned?
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Initial Metadata Analysis: We have 1.3 million
catalogue records 73% are monographs
(remainder are serials at title-level)
63% is English language material. The next most popular language (9%) is German.
About 30% of material was published before 1923.
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Scalable Mass Scanning Contracts Firewalls Bathrooms Security Loading docks Trucks
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Mass Scanning Workflow Pick lists Packing lists Serials management Monographic management Stickers for books
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Demonstration II: Workflow Tools
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Stable URL Handle DOI BICI/SICI ISSN ISBN
http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org
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Biologia Centrali-Americana :zoology, botany and archaeology
Mammalia Aves v. 1 … Aves v. 4 Reptilia and Batrachia
Biologia Centrali-Americana : Aves v. 1 Introduction -- Subclass Aves Carinate. Order
Passeres. v. 2 Subclass Aves Carinate. Order[s]: Passeres
(contd.), Macrochires, Pici, Coccyges, Psitta
Is itOr
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Zea mays L.
Sp. Pl. 2: 971-972. 1753.
Title: Species PlantarumTL2: 4.769Tropicos Pub_id: 1071IPNI Pub_id:1071-2
Volume: 2Start Page: 971End Page: 972Year Published: 1753
http://hdl.handle.net/1234567/9876
http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/358992
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Page turning, multiple views, translations PDF “Grab-n-Go”
OCR TextStellaria ongipes ? Goldie. Cornwallis Island.Silene acaWlis, L. Woman Islands.Sawfraga oppositifolia, L. Kakkidlarn, Greenland; Cornwallis Island.Sa4mfraga cerua, De Cand. Ukaari; Cornwallis Island.Sairaga csepitosa, L. Wolstenholme, Greenland; Cornwallis Island.Saxfraga rimdaris, De Cand. Whale Fish Island.Sad~ raga nivalis, L. Cornwallis Island.Ptentilla emarginata? Pursh. Wolstenholme.Dipena Lapponica, L. Whale Fish Island.Pyrola rotndifolia, L. Whale Fish Island.Casiope tetragona, Don. Ichauti.Vaccinium uliginosum, L.Loiseleuria procumbens, L. Whale Fish Island.
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<genus>Polygonum</genus>
<species>viviparm</species>,
<author>L.</author>
<locality>Bushnan Island.</locality>
Created via automated or
semi-automated means.
Machine-readable literature
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10.3 million name strings in NameBank
Uses sophisticated algorithm (TaxonGrab) to locate likely name strings in OCR text
Iterative processing of BHL texts will both increase the number of name strings in NameBank and increase the accuracy of name string recognition
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Demonstration III: Taxonomic Intelligencehttp://www.ubio.org
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Search Browse
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Demonstration IV: BHL Portal http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org
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Funding from the MacArthur and Sloan Foundations
Part of the larger Encyclopedia of Life project
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Structure of the Encyclopedia of Life
Serine Molecule
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Serine Molecule
Synthesis CenterField Museum
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OutreachSmithsonian/Harvard
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Let us … rejoice in the fact, that we have realised what no other kingdom can boast of, and that such vast and harmoniously related accumulation of knowledge is gathered together around a library
Charles Darwin, et al, 1858
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Thanks to: Chris Freeland, Missouri Botanical Garden Neil Thomson, Natural History Museum, London David Remsen, Global Biodiversity Information Facility Neil Sarkar, Marine Biological Laboratory/Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institution Anna Weitzman, National Museum of Natural History Chris Lyal, Natural History Museum, London The staff at the Internet Archive
Images from The Galaxy of Images, Smithsonian Libraries (
www.sil.si.edu/imagegalaxy) NASA, Visible Earth Project Martin R. Kalfatovic
Diane Rielinger
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Biodiversity Heritage Library http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ Encyclopedia of Life http://www.eol.org/ Smithsonian Institution Libraries http://www.sil.si.edu/ Universal Biological Indexer and Organizer http://www.ubio.org/ Sherborn’s Index Animalium http://
www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/indexanimalium/ Neave’s Nomenclator Zoologicus http://
www.ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ United States Exploring Expedition http://
www.sil.si.edu/DigitalCollections/usexex/index.htm Biologia Centrali-Americana
http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/bca/ Botanicus http://www.botanicus.org/