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Presentation given at VALA2012 conference February 2012 in Melbourne, Australia. Ely Wallis and Dave Matthews were coauthors in a paper entitled Collaborating Locally, Contributing Globally. The Biodiversity Heritage Library in Australia.
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Collaborating locally, contributing globallyThe Biodiversity Heritage Library in Australia
Elycia Wallis & Dave Matthews@elyw
Introduction
• Why literature is important to taxonomy
• Biodiversity Heritage Library global consortium
• BHL-Australia and the Atlas of Living Australia
• Future plans
Context: museum libraries
Hidden away
Platypus see Ornithorhynchus
John Gould (1863) The Mammals of Australia
The Naturalist's Miscellany: Or, Coloured Figures Of Natural Objects; Drawn and Described Immediately From Nature (1789-1813)
Literature and taxonomy
Theodore Roosevelt, 1910, African Game Trails: an account of the African wanderings of an American hunter-naturalist. http://bhl.ala.org.au/bibliography/20032#/summary
Taxonomy is a dynamic science
Supergiant amphipod caught in the Kermadec Trench off New Zealand. Photo copyright of Oceanlab, University of Aberdeen, UK. http://www.niwa.co.nz/news/%E2%80%98supergiant%E2%80%99-amphipods-discovered-7-kilometres-deep
Electronic publishing
http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110720/full/news.2011.428.html?s=news_rss
http://cunabulum.blogspot.com/2011/07/botanists-vote-to-allow-online.html
Biodiversity Heritage Library
BHL: extensive, open, global
Goals• To digitise biological literature• To create a global partnership• To engage the research community
Principles• Open access = free• Open content = public domain or with permission of
copyright holders• Collaborative = local collaborations as well as global• Shared development = learning from others
Origins of BHL
• Academy of Natural Sciences (Philadelphia)
• American Museum of Natural History
• Field Museum• Marine Biological Laboratory
(WHOI) (Woods Hole)• Museum of Comparative
Zoology (Harvard)• Smithsonian Institution
Libraries • Natural History Museum
(London)• Harvard Botany Libraries • Missouri Botanical Garden• New York Botanical Garden• Royal Botanic Gardens (Kew)
Encyclopedia of Life
Encyclopedia of Life
And so they started scanning...
The numbers tell the story
November 2011
Global BHL
• Nodes in Europe, China, Brazil, Egypt and Australia
Social
“Global data sharing requires a social infrastructure”Martin Kalfatovic
Best facilitated face to face
Biodiversity Heritage Library in Australia
BHL-Australia
Background• BHL-Au is the literature service for the Atlas of
Living Australia
MissionTo develop an authoritative, freely accessible, distributed and federated biodiversity data management system
www.ala.org.au
The Council of Heads of Australian Faunal Collections (CHAFC)
The Council of Heads of Australian Entomological Collections (CHAEC)
The Council of Heads of Australasian Collections of Microorganisms (CHACM)
The Council of Australasian Museum Directors (CAMD)
BHL-Australia
Goals• To provide a digital literature
service for the ALA• To participate in the global
BHL partnership• To manage a BHL-Au website,
including development of new functionality
• To develop a bid list for new digitisation
• To undertake new scanning projects
http://bhl.ala.org.au
Bid list
New scanning
Macaw
Photographer: Beatrice Murch Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ara_ararauna_-Blue-and-yellow_Macaw_in_a_tree.jpg
Future plans
Species page
Links to articles
New tools
The images are wonderful
Hot off the presses
Thank-you