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Smithsonian Institution Libraries:Partnering In Research
Smithsonian Institution LibrariesSuzanne C. Pilsk
With the Help from a Whole Host of Others
Smithsonian Institution
African ArtAfrican American History and CultureAnthropologyAmerican ArtAmerican HistoryAsian and Middle Eastern ArtAviation history and Space FlightDesign and Decorative ArtsEnvironmental Management and
Ecology
History of Science and TechnologyLatino History and CultureMaterials ResearchModern and Contemporary ArtMuseologyNative American History and Culture Natural HistoryPostal HistoryTropical BiologyTrade LiteratureWorld’s Fair Ephemera
Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Support for the Sciences Taxonomic Nomenclature
Identifying and Naming of Species– New, Old, Re-name, Misspellings,
Synonyms, Homonyms, Splits, Joins, …– Authorship: Who, When, Former, …
Rules:International Code of Botanical NomenclatureInternational Code of Zoological NomenclatureInternational Code of Nomenclature of Bacteria
Importance of Publication
Who Writes Publishes
and Distributes FIRST
WINS
Justification of NH Libraries!
In any well-appointed Natural History Library there should be found every book and every edition of every book dealing in the remotest way with the subjects concerned.
Charles Davies Sherborn, Epilogue to Index Animalium, March 1922
Libraries and Librarians
Metadata Fail
Tools of the Trade
Index Animalium
Taxonomic Literature 2nd Ed.
How to make THIS into 1’s and 0’s
Digitization
Metadata Successes
The Squire
Connecting Index to Sources
Bibliography = Metadata
Lost… Just Lost
"362382","SIL34_02_24_0193","6101","splendens Turdus, W. E. Leach, Zool. Miscell. II. 1815, 30.”
ID Image ID Page Name & reference
Database Parsing To Find Pieces and Parts
Taxonomic Literature 2nd Edition
Taxonomic Literature: A selective guide to botanical publications and collections with dates, commentaries and types (second edition)
15 volumes guide to the literature of systematic botany published between 1753 and 1940
Organized by author ~ Citation for the author’s surname
Numbered entries of the author’s publications ~ Suggested short-title & abbreviation of short-title for use in taxonomic publications
TL2 is a standard by which author’s names and titles should be abbreviated
Digitizing The Entire Title:Scope of Work
• Approximately 11, 500 scanned pages
• Average of 3,300 characters per page
• Approximately 44, 000 author entries
• Image files approx. 9 GB in size
★ Linked Open Data – 5 Stars ★
★ Available on the web (whatever format), but with an open licence ★★ Available as machine-readable structured data (e.g. excel instead of image scan of a table)
★★★ as (2) plus non-proprietary format (e.g. CSV instead of excel)
★★★★ All the above plus, Use open standards from W3C (RDF and SPARQL) to identify things, so that people can point at your stuff
★★★★★ All the above, plus: Link your data to other people’s data to provide context
• Shareable• Extensible• Re-Usable• International
TL2: Linked Open DataBotanist Pages
Triple stores of Name relationship to BooksTriple stores of Name relationship to Standard Abbreviation
Book PagesTriple stores of Book relationship to NameTriple stores of Book relationship to TL2 numberingTriple stores of Book relations to Standard Abbreviation
Future
Life and Literature Conference 2011
Life and Literature Conference 2011
Life and Literature Conference 2011
Elycia Wallis, Museum Victoria
Compelling Use Cases for DigitizationIncluding cool and unexpected
Once digitized, text is just textSignificant amount not discoverable
“So in not fully investigating the product of the digital projects, are we selling scholarship short? What scholarship in the digital age means? And what are the real tools we need to do it?”
Thanks To Many• Joel Richard• Martin Kalfatovic• Grace Costantino• Courtney Shaw• Keri Thompson• Interns too numerous to
name• Volunteers too numerous to
name
• Robin Everly• Gilbert Borrego• Carolyn Sheffield• Bianca Crowley • Becky Morin• Mike Lichtenburg• David Remsen• Patrick Leary• Chris Freeland
Contact information: PilskS@si.edu
Interesting SourcesIndex Animalium http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/indexanimalium/Taxonomic Literature (3) www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/tl-2
Smithsonian Institution Librarieswww.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/tl-2
Connecting Contentresearch.calacademy.org/library/fieldnotes
The Field Book Projectwww.mnh.si.edu/rc/fieldbooks/index.html
Linked Open Datalinkeddata.org/
Life and Literature Conferencehttp://www.lifeandliterature.org/
Smithsonian Institutionwww.si.edu/
Biodiversity Heritage Librarywww.biodiversitylibrary.org/
Internet Archivewww.archive.org/
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