The LIBRARY Part of the Biodiversity Heritage Library

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The LIBRARY Part ofThe

Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Traditional Library

Traditional Services

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Traditional Cataloging

Monographs

Serials

Videos

Microfilm/fiche

Sound Recordings

CD/DVDs

Electronic Resources

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Smithsonian Institution Research Information System (SIRIS)

MARC

AACR2r

ISBD

LC Classification

LC Subject Headings

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SI Libraries Serves: Curators Researchers Post-Docs Museum Administrators Public

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A library is a library is a library?

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Virtual Library

A “library without walls” in which the collections do not exist on paper, … or other tangible form at a physical location but are electronically accessible in digital format via computer networks.

- - Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science

http://lu.com/odlis/

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Digital LibraryA library in which a significant

proportion of the resources are available in machine-readable format … accessible by means of computers.

The digital content may be locally held or accessed remotely via computer networks.

- - Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science http://lu.com/odlis/

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Traditional Digital Library

Electronic Journals & Databases

Digital Editions Online Exhibitions Online Catalog Digital Reference

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Will they find it?

If you digitize it …

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Search Gone BAD!

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Validation for Libraries

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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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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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Metadata – failure to serve

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02761nam 2200469 4500001000700000005001700007008004100024010002300065019001300088035001400101035002300115040006100138049002700199050001500226100004200241245019300283260008300476300001700559504033500576505015400911590010901065590009601174650002601270945002101296945007301317945003101390945004801421945004801469945004701517945007901564945004401643945004601687945004801733945007601781945004401857945005101901945005101952945007102003945009002074945009602164945003102260‑459797‑20050131154400.0‑731129m19021933enk b 000 0 lat c‑ aagr03000069 //r582‑ a14018362‑ aABY6485LB‑ a(OCoLC)ocm00751549‑ aU.S. Dept. of Agr. Libr. cRIU dOCL dCHS dSER dSMI dWaOLN‑ aSMI$ aSMIM aSMIE aSMIB‑00 aQL354 b.S5‑1 aOscar Mayer & Co.‑10 aPronto pup: bhot dogs hamburgers/ ca Oscar Mayer and Company.‑ aNew Orleans, La. : bBourbon Street Foods, c2000.

Metadata: Real MARC – Still failure to serve

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- Specimen- Plate or other visual image- Taxonomic description

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Instant Identification System

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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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Selection Tools:

Combined Serial list for selection of title to scan to avoid duplication of effort

Monographic “de-duping” algorithm

OCLC Collection Analysis

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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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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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Marine Biological Laboratory/WHOI Marine monographs General Science

Museum of Comparative Zoology MCZ publications Herpetology monographs

and serials Ichthyology monographs and

serials

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University of Illinois Fieldiana Natural history of Illinois

American Museum of Natural History AMNH publications Ornithology

Natural History Museum NHM publications Major natural history general

serials

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Botany Collections

Missouri Botanical Garden,

New York Botanical Garden,

Harvard Botany Libraries, and

Royal Botanic Garden, Kew will cooperatively develop a

methodology for botanical publications

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Smithsonian Institution Libraries Smithsonian publications Entomology collection Marine mammals Fishes Selected special collections

materials

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Ernest Ingersoll Hand-book to the National Museum … Smithsonian Institution, 1886

Mass Scanning WorkflowBid ListsSerials ManagementPick ListsPacking ListsMonographic ManagementLocal data flowWonderFetchtm

Return of dataReturn of materialBilling

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1. Select Book ~Pull from Shelf

2. Review Physically and Metadata

3. Establish viability and create Wonderfetchtm

4. Send to IA scanning center

5. Book is scanned & QA

6. Page images loaded

7. Derivatives created

8. Book returned to library

9. Files harvested from IA portal to BHL

10. Taxonomic Intelligence Added

11. Available through BHL

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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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BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE LIBRARYStable URL

Attribution

Name Finding

Page Turning Page TurningZoom/Pan

Download/View

Browse

Search

Filter

Target/Object

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Reuse, don’t rebuild

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BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE LIBRARYRaw Image

Converted to text via OCRName finding via TaxonFinder

Extract names

Submit to NameBankSOAP response

Taxonomic Intelligence…

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BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE LIBRARYDiscovered Bibliographies

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Future: Citation Resolver Titles Resolver Other Cool Stuff

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TheEncyclopedia of Life

Serine Molecule

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BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE LIBRARYEOL Species Pages

Built from a variety of new and existing sources

Views available for varying levels of expertise from novice to expert

Legacy literature a key component of the EOL species pages

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Plant Names

Specimens

Plant Names

Plant NamesSpecimensDescriptions

Plant Names

Plant Names

Citations

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Standards • Services

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Thanks to:

Chris Freeland, Missouri Botanical Garden

Martin Kalfatovic, Smithsonian Institution Libraries

Cathy Norton, MBL – WHOI

Smithsonian Institution Libraries Galaxy of Images http://www.sil.si.edu/imagegalaxy/

7waspefr

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BHL Portalwww.biodiversitylibrary.org

Internet Archive

http://www.archive.org/index.php

Serial Mash up http://www.nhm.ac.uk/library/bhlseriallist/