cbhl apr2014
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BHL update for the Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries annual meetingTRANSCRIPT
Growing the BHL
BHL Collections Coordinator Bianca Crowley
April 2014 CBHL
http://biodiversitylibrary.org
Consortium Participants • Academy of Natural Sciences • American Museum of Natural History • California Academy of Sciences Library • Cornell University Library • Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology • e Field Museum • Harvard University Botany Libraries • Library of Congress • Marine Biological Laboratory and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Library • Missouri Botanical Garden Library • National Library Board (Singapore) • Natural History Museum, LA County • Natural History Museum, London • e New York Botanical Garden • Royal Botanic Garden, Kew • Smithsonian Libraries • University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign • United States Geological Survey Libraries • Washington University of St. Louis
Growing organization
• Vision : Inspiring discovery through free access to biodiversity knowledge.
• Mission : The Biodiversity Heritage Library works collaboratively to make biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community.
Growing organization: Goals 1. Relevant Content : Build and maintain the BHL as the largest reliable,
reputable, and responsive repository of biodiversity literature and archival materials.
2. Tools and Services : Develop services and tools which facilitate discovery and improve research efficiency of BHL content.
3. User Engagement : Increase global awareness about the BHL through outreach, learning and education, and branding through engagement and collaboration with existing and new user communities.
4. Membership and Partnerships : Grow BHL consortia membership and partnerships while fostering cross-institutional collaboration that continues to serve as a model for digital library development.
5. Financial Sustainability : Ensure sustainability and relevance by being flexible, adaptable, and financially sound while the content and services remain openly and freely available.
Growing consortium
• 4 New “Gardeners” – Washington University Library (St. Louis, MO)
– National Library Board Singapore – Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History
Research Library
– University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, University Library
Growing consortium
• BHL Central “Tract” – 16 institutions in the United States
– 2 institutions in the United Kingdom – 1 institution in Singapore – Verses global “plots” elsewhere in Africa, Australia,
Brazil, China, Egypt, Europe
New Membership Structure
Members • $10K annual dues • Guide BHL decision making • Funding for digitization • Access to specialized software
and technical support • Opportunities to participate in
technical development • Collaborative fund-raising
opportunities • Possible travel support • Achieving economy of scale
for access to, and storage of, digital collections in a safe repository
Affiliates • No annual dues • Participation in an active,
award-winning collaborative program that is making biodiversity literature freely available to the world
• Opportunity to provide advice about the growth and development of the BHL Program
• Discounts on service fees for content ingest, access and technical assistance
Growing Collections
• 76,000+ titles • 137,000+ volumes • 43 million+ pages!
BHL, BHL… How does your garden grow?
• Digi$za$on : BHL consor+um libraries send books to the Internet Archive for scanning
• Aggrega$on : Harves+ng non-‐BHL consor+um materials from Internet Archive corpus based on criteria of subject headings and call numbers
• Aggrega$on Experiment : indexing metadata for content available on external websites = 3rd party links
3rd Party Links
© Copyright Status Status language License
Permissions (1923 in-‐copyright pubs)
In copyright. Digi+zed with the permission of the rights holder.
Crea+ve Commons AOribu+on, Non-‐Commercial, Share-‐Alike (CC-‐BY-‐NC-‐SA
Due Diligence (1923-‐77 US pubs)
No known copyright restric+ons as determined by scanning ins+tu+on.
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Public Domain (pre-‐1923)
Public domain. The BHL considers that this work is no longer under copyright protec+on.
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Growing Website: en
Growing Website: Now
Pruning, Weeding, De-bugging General feedback form Scan request form
http://biodiversitylibrary.org/contact
Issue Tracking System
Sowing for the future
• “Macaw” software for loading content scanned outside our standard workflow
• Full Text Search! • Innovative projects: – Purposeful Gaming – Art of Life
– Biodiversity Library Exhibitions – Digging into Data – Field notebooks
Questions?
Thank you! [email protected]
• Open access • Open data • Deliver content where users are already
working – Via other biodiversity websites & taxonomic
resources – Via social media
• Involve users in collection & technical development
…not just another silo
Issue Tracking Software
Vols. 6, 8, 10 Vols.
1-‐5
Vols. 7, 9, 11-‐21
Communicate & Document Regularly
Standard Digitization Work"ow
Sowing for the future: “Macaw”
Metadata Collection and Work"ow System