Presented December 12, 2007, at Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum, Berlin-Dahlem

1. Biodiversity Heritage Library www.biodiversitylibrary.org Chris Freeland Director of Bioinformatics, Missouri Botanical Garden Technical Director, Biodiversity Heritage Library [email_address]

2. Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) 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. One never knows wherein one edition differs from or supplements the other and unless these are on the same table at the same time it is not possible to collate them properly. Moreover for accurate work it is necessary for the student to verify every reference he may find ; it is not enough to copy from a previous author; he must verify each reference itself from the original . Charles Davies Sherborn, Epilogue to Index Animalium , March 1922 Charles Davies Sherborn (1861-1942)

3. Biodiversity Heritage Library The cited half-life of publications in taxonomy is longer than in any other scientific discipline * * * The decay rate is longer than in any scientific discipline - Macro-economic case for open access, Tom Moritz Levinus Vincent Elenchus tabularum, pinacothecarum, 1719

5. BHL Tech Partner: Internet Archive Scanning on Scribes Storage in Petaboxes

6. Botanicus & BHL

9. Parsed Subject Headings/Tag Cloud Subject Heading from library catalog Expressed as MARCXML Tag Cloud

10. Google Maps API

11. TIF Image from Scanner Converted to text via PrimeOCR Name finding via TaxonFinder Extract names Submit to NameBank SOAP response Name Finding in action with Taxonomic Intelligence…

12. Discovered Bibliography Interface http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/name/Epidendrum_liliastrum

13. BHL Name Services http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/services/name/NameService.asmx

14. Coming soon…

16. Migration to Fedora platform

17. Evaluation of Name Finding

18. Current Architecture Internet Archive Web access BHL Portal & Taxonomic Intelligence

19. Future Architecture BHL Portal & Taxonomic Intelligence Internet Archive Node European Digital Library French national node Chinese national node Multiple language interfaces Node Node Fedora objects

21. Thank You! Chris Freeland Director of Bioinformatics, Missouri Botanical Garden Technical Director, Biodiversity Heritage Library [email_address]