Fedlink Fall Expo 2012 NewFeds Panel presentation

1. Forging a Digital Roadmap: The Preservation,
Curation and Stewardship Nexus
Bianca Crowley
Collections Coordinator
Smithsonian Libraries

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Bianca Crowley
Collections Coordinator
Smithsonian Libraries

3. http://biodiversitylibrary.org
>58,000 titles >108,000 volumes > 39 million pages

4. The BHL is…
• A consortium of 14 natural history, botanical
libraries and research institutions
• An open access digital library for legacy biodiversity
literature.
• An open data repository of taxonomic names and
bibliographic information
• An increasingly global effort

6. BHL Digitization Overview
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Images,
OCR text,
XML
Taxonomic
Name
Services
User
User BHL
BHL
Feedback
Feedback

7. What does a Collections Coordinator do?

8. Challenges
• Article access
• Preservation: Replication & Synchronization
• Integrating content scanned outside standard
workflow
• Deduplication
• OCR accuracy
• Copyright issues
• Funding & resources
(of course!)

9. Lessons Learned
• Collaboration is key
• Content is King
• If you make your data available, people will use it
• Value of experimentation and failure
• Be flexible
• “Just Do It”

10. Future Directions
• Article level access
– Reconfiguring back-end BHL database
– Harvesting metadata from Biostor.org (thanks Roderic D.M. Page)
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• New user interface coming soon!

11. Curation: a Patient Practice…

12. Curation: a Patient Practice…

13. Curation: a Patient Practice that Pays Off!

14. Curation: a Patient Practice that Pays Off!

15. Curation: your Users can Help

16. Curation: your Users can Help

17. Stewardship: Our Role in the
Biodiversity Research “Ecology”
BHL EOL
Biodiversity
Literature
Scientific Names
Publications Phylogenies
Nomen-
Researchers clators
Name Species
Checklists
Datasets Indexes
Collecting
Events Specimens Content Aggregators
Localities
Field
Notes

18. Thank you!
blog.biodiversitylibrary.org
biodivlibrary
Bianca Crowley
biodivlibrary crowleyb@si.edu
Biodiversity Heritage Library Slides: slideshare.net/lipscombb
biodivlibrary