world wide access to biodiversity literature - the biodiversity heritage library
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Presentation given by Henning Scholz at the BioSystematics Symposium 2011 in BerlinTRANSCRIPT
World wide access to biodiversity literatureThe Biodiversity Heritage Library
Henning Scholz1 & Tom Garnett2
1Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany
2Smithsonian Libraries, Washington, USA
Charles Darwin et al. 1847
The cultivation of natural science cannot be efficiently carried on without reference to an extensive library.
Ten years ago
Virtual libraries (online)
Digital libraries (online)
Download/print books & articles
E-Journals & Open Access
PDF & Email
OPAC, library catalogues
Libraries (travel)
Copy books & articles
Printed material
Reprints & snail mail
Ecosystem of services
BHLBHL-Europe
BHL-China
BHL-Australia
BHL-SouthAmerica
Arab Language BHL
CiteBank
EoL
EuropeanaGRIB EDIT
CoL
VIAF
EJT
vifabio
AnimalBase
Tropicos
BioStor
BHL
http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/
BHL 2007
SIL, MOBOT, AMNH, Harvard Botany Library, MCZ, MBL/WHOI, Field Museum, NYBG
NHM, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
BHL today
• 87,788 volumes online• 32,706,117 pages online (9.2.2011)
• About 70 Tb data• OCR, page level access• Bibliographic indexing• Taxonomic metadata• Metadata re-use• Open Access
BHL today
BHL today
BHL-Europe
http://www.bhl-europe.eu
BHL-Europe
Main principles:• No digitisation
BHL-Europe is not funded to digitise
• Best Practice Network No research and development project Building a solution with existing (state-of-the-art)
technologies and bring it onto the market Existing European repositories of digital biodiversity
literature into a multilingual BHL-Europe portal and Europeana
Long-term preservation and sustainability
BHL-Europe Partner
BHL-Europe results
GRIB
Aim: Develop bibliographic database (union catalogue with content management and deduplication functionalities).
Global Reference Index to Biodiversity (http://grib.gbv.de)
Collaboration: European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy (EDIT)
User: Scientist, taxonomist, librarian
Europeana
• >15 million objects
• Mona Lisa to Charles Darwin
• Texts, images, videos, sounds
• 88,997 BHL-Europe objects
• Three BHL-Europe partners
• Non BHL-Europe content
BHL-Global
BHL-Global
Regional Requirements
Mass digitisation
Contractual obligations (MacArthur)
Driven by EoL
Service for scientists
Copyright
Technology
Improve interoperability
Contractual obligations (EC)
Driven by Europeana
Service for the public
Copyright
Technology
BioSystematics 2011
You are the user…
…vivid discussions
…future developments
…hands on training
Dr. Henning Scholz Project Coordinator BHL-Europe
Museum für Naturkunde Invalidenstraße 43 D-10115 Berlin
Email: [email protected]
http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org http://www.bhl-europe.euhttp://www.bhl-europe.eu
…Questions