An Overview of Standards for Biodiversity Literature and the State of the BHL. Martin R. Kalfatovic. TDGW 2014. Jönköping, Sweden. 28 October 2014.

2. Looking Forward
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.
Charles Davies Sherborn
Epilogue to Index Animalium, March 1922

4. Biodiversity Heritage Library
Technology Library Science

5. 21 Members and Affiliates
16 Members
• American Museum of Natural History
• California Academy of Sciences Library
• Cornell University Library
• Harvard University Botany Libraries
• Mayr Library of the Museum of Comp. Zoology
• Library of Congress
• Marine Biological Laboratory and Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institution Library
• Missouri Botanical Garden Library
• National Library Board (Singapore)
• Natural History Museum, London
• The New York Botanical Garden
• Royal Botanic Garden, Kew
• Smithsonian Libraries
• United States Geological Survey Libraries
• Washington University of St. Louis
• University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
5 Affiliates
•Academy of Natural Sciences
•The Field Museum
• Natural History Museum, LA County
• Chicago Botanic Garden
• National Agriculture Library

6. Secretariat and Technical Staff
APugruosgt r2a01m1 Director
Program Manager
Collections Coordinator
Communication & Outreach Manager
Technical Director
Programmer / Secret Weapon
Data Project Coordinator

8. Global BHL
BHL Central | BHL Africa | BHL Australia | BHL SciELO |
BHL China | BHL Egypt | BHL Europe | BHL Singapore

9. 44,908,563 pages
152,240 items
88,153 titles
27 Oct 2014
Content Growth
2007-2014

10. User Statistics: 2013 – 2014 (March)
Unique Visitors: 664,645 / 55,387 per month
Page Views: 3,741,640
New vs. Returning: 54.94% vs. 45.06%
2007
2014
146,798 visitors | November 2012

11. Users2 i3n 324 5c Coouunntrtiersies

12. TheMachineIsUs/ingUs
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13. 87,594 mobile visits (32% iPad)
March 2013 – March 2014
35,231 mobile visits (45% iPad)
March 2012 – March 2013

14. 29+ million total views | 97K + images (Fall 2014)

15. Bouchout Declaration Signatory
Our natural world is a source of food, water, resources,
protection and enjoyment that our society needs. The richness
and complexity of nature, and the speed of new discoveries
made possible by genomic and digital technologies, challenge
us to find new ways to benefit from and be better custodians of
the natural world. Digital information management systems can
bring together the wealth of information now dispersed in a
myriad of different documents, institutions, and locations. With
such systems, we can harness the benefits of rapid discovery
and open up our legacy of over 260 years of biological
observations.
http://bouchoutdeclaration.org/

17. Increase agreements
with publishers of in
copyright materials
US Titles: 249
UK Titles: 69
TOTAL TITLES: 318
US Licensors: 92
UK Licensors: 41
TOTAL LICENSORS: 133
October 2014

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19. Funder: Institute of Museum and Library Services
($174,724 for US partners)
Partners: Center for Biodiversity Informatics, Missouri
Botanical Garden, (US); National Centre for Text Mining,
University of Manchester, (UK); Big Data Analytics Institute
and Social Media Lab, Dalhousie University, (CAN).
Also participating: Smithsonian Institutions and
Encyclopedia of Life.

20. And now a growing archive!

21. Field Notes and Archival Materials

22. Digital Object Identifiers
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Thank
Currently assigning CrossRef
Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs)
to all monographs.
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Exploring options with CrossRef
for assigning at other levels (e.g.
articles/ segments / treatments)
Working with members of the
bioinformatics community to
address other needs for DOIs
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23. Tack! | Thank you!