1. Biodiversity Heritage Library:
Contributing locally, Collaborating globally
Joe Coleman
BHL Digitisation Project manager

2. A typical research library?

3. How does it work?
Turning this… … into this.

4. Partners
Initial consortium of US and UK based institutions.
Internet Archive
Encyclopedia of Life
BHL Australia
BHL Europe
BHL China
BHL Latin America (Brazil)

5. “The cultivation of natural science
cannot be efficiently carried on
without reference to an extensive
library”.
C.R. Darwin

8. Workflow

10. http://bhl.ala.org.au/bibliogr
aphy/34887

11. bhl.ala.org.au/bibliography/5
1826

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http://bhl.ala.org.au/item/37
058

13. Item:
http://bhl.ala.org.au/item/
92744

14. 1:
http://bhl.ala.org.au/item/
108513

15. Item:
http://bhl.ala.org.au/item/8
2057

16. ments de Buffon / par P. Lesson.
Paris : P. Pourrat res,1838.
http://bhl.ala.org.au/bibliography/16068
The quadrupeds of North America,
New York,V.G. Audubon,1851-54.
http://bhl.ala.org.au/bibliography/51130

17. Buller, Walter Lawry, Sir, 1838-1906.
Keulemans, J. G. (John Gerrard), 1842-1912
Publication info
London :John van Voorst,1873
[28/11/11 11:23:25 PM] Joe Coleman:
http://bhl.ala.org.au/bibliography/50671
Natural history of Victoria.
Prodromus of the zoology of
Victoria; or,
Figures and descriptions of the
living species of all classes of the
Victorian indigenous animals... By
Frederick McCoy...
Melbourne,J.Ferres, government
printer;1885-90.
http://bhl.ala.org.au/bibliography/
4821

19. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/

20. http://biostor.org/
http://citebank.org/

21. http://synynyms.no.de/

22. Thank you
Joe Coleman
jcoleman@museum.vic.gov.au
http://bhl.ala.org.au