The Biodiversity Heritage Library 10 Years and More! Martin R. Kalfatovic. TDWG 2016. Centro de Transferencia Tecnológica y Educación Continua (CTEC) San Carlos, Santa Clara, Costa Rica. 7 December 2016.
Increasing Access, Promoting Progress: Empowering Global Research through the...Martin Kalfatovic
Increasing Access, Promoting Progress: Empowering Global Research through the BHL. Martin R. Kalfatovic. Expanding Access to Biodiversity Workshop. Atlanta History Center. Atlanta, GA. 24 January 2017.
Increasing Access, Promoting Progress: Empowering Global Research through the...Martin Kalfatovic
Increasing Access, Promoting Progress: Empowering Global Research through the BHL. Martin R. Kalfatovic. Group of 12 Meeting. Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle. Paris, 2 December 2016.
The Biodiversity Heritage Library. 10+1 and Beyond: Looking ForwardMartin Kalfatovic
The Biodiversity Heritage Library. 10+1 and Beyond: Looking Forward. Martin R. Kalfatovic. BHL Day 2016, Natural History Museum. London, 12 April 2016.
Enabling Progress in Global Biodiversity Research: The Biodiversity Heritage ...Martin Kalfatovic
This document summarizes a presentation about the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL). It discusses how BHL provides open access to over 49 million pages of biodiversity literature. It highlights BHL's global usage, with top cities including London, Paris, New York. It also summarizes partnerships with organizations like Encyclopedia of Life and projects like expanding access to literature and digitizing field notes. The presentation concludes that BHL has been successfully collaborative by focusing on taxonomy and providing services to researchers.
Botany and the BHL: A Botanical Overview of the Biodiversity Heritage LibraryMartin Kalfatovic
Botany and the BHL: A Botanical Overview of the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin R. kalfatovic. Botany Department Seminar. National Museum of Natural History. Smithsonian Institution. Washington, DC. 15 September 2016.
An Introduction to the Biodiversity Heritage LibraryMartin Kalfatovic
An Introduction to the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin R. Kalfatovic. BHL Australian Node Meeting: National Library of Australia. 4 June 2010. Canberra, Australia.
Increasing Access, Promoting Progress: Empowering Global Research through the...Martin Kalfatovic
Increasing Access, Promoting Progress: Empowering Global Research through the BHL. Martin R. Kalfatovic. Expanding Access to Biodiversity Workshop. Atlanta History Center. Atlanta, GA. 24 January 2017.
Increasing Access, Promoting Progress: Empowering Global Research through the...Martin Kalfatovic
Increasing Access, Promoting Progress: Empowering Global Research through the BHL. Martin R. Kalfatovic. Group of 12 Meeting. Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle. Paris, 2 December 2016.
The Biodiversity Heritage Library. 10+1 and Beyond: Looking ForwardMartin Kalfatovic
The Biodiversity Heritage Library. 10+1 and Beyond: Looking Forward. Martin R. Kalfatovic. BHL Day 2016, Natural History Museum. London, 12 April 2016.
Enabling Progress in Global Biodiversity Research: The Biodiversity Heritage ...Martin Kalfatovic
This document summarizes a presentation about the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL). It discusses how BHL provides open access to over 49 million pages of biodiversity literature. It highlights BHL's global usage, with top cities including London, Paris, New York. It also summarizes partnerships with organizations like Encyclopedia of Life and projects like expanding access to literature and digitizing field notes. The presentation concludes that BHL has been successfully collaborative by focusing on taxonomy and providing services to researchers.
Botany and the BHL: A Botanical Overview of the Biodiversity Heritage LibraryMartin Kalfatovic
Botany and the BHL: A Botanical Overview of the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin R. kalfatovic. Botany Department Seminar. National Museum of Natural History. Smithsonian Institution. Washington, DC. 15 September 2016.
An Introduction to the Biodiversity Heritage LibraryMartin Kalfatovic
An Introduction to the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin R. Kalfatovic. BHL Australian Node Meeting: National Library of Australia. 4 June 2010. Canberra, Australia.
Free and Open Access to Biodiversity Literature: An Introduction to the Biodi...Martin Kalfatovic
Free and Open Access to Biodiversity Literature: An Introduction to the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin R. Kalfatovic. Library of Congress. 1 June 2017.
Overview of the Biodiversity Heritage Library: Recent ActivitiesMartin Kalfatovic
Overview of the Biodiversity Heritage Library: Recent Activities. Martin R. Kalfatovic. Inaugural Digital Data in Biodiversity Research Conference. Digital Data and the North American Nodes of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Co-sponsored by the University of Michigan and iDigBio. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. 5 June 2017.
Free & Open Access to Biodiversity Literature: An Introduction to the Biodive...Martin Kalfatovic
Free & Open Access to Biodiversity Literature: An Introduction to the Biodiversity Heritage Library. NDSR Workshop. Smithsonian Libraries. 2 February 2017.
The Smithsonian Institution: Diffusing Knowledge in Partnership with the DPLAMartin Kalfatovic
The Smithsonian Institution: Diffusing Knowledge in Partnership with the DPLA. Martin R. Kalfatovic. Digital Programs Advisory Committee, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 10 December 2015
BHL and Specimen Collection Data: The needle in the Festuca stackMartin Kalfatovic
BHL and Specimen Collection Data: The needle in the Festuca stack
Biodiversity_Next | 23 October 2019 | Leiden
Martin R. Kalfatovic. BHL Program Director | Biodiversity Heritage Library. ORCID: 0000-0002-4563-4627. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.3.37787
The Biodiversity Heritage Library: Empowering Discovery through Free Access to Biodiversity Knowledge | Martin R. Kalfatovic, XIX IBC 2017. Shenzhen, China. 25 July 2017
The Biodiversity Heritage Library Empowering Discovery through Free Access to...Martin Kalfatovic
The Biodiversity Heritage Library Empowering Discovery through Free Access to Biodiversity Knowledge. Martin R. Kalfatovic. XXI Congress of the Association for the Taxonomic Study of the Flora of Tropical Africa (AETFAT). Nairobi, Kenya. 18 May 2017.
Empowering Global Research: User Stories from the Biodiversity Heritage Librarycostantinog
Presentation from the evening reception at the 2018 Annual Meeting in Los Angeles. Presentation shared user stories highlighting how BHL is supporting research in global science, conservation, and museum work.
The document summarizes the current status and future plans of the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) as of May 2011. It notes that BHL has the largest collection of digitized biodiversity literature in the world, with over 34.5 million pages from 91,600 volumes. It discusses BHL's efforts to obtain copyright permissions to digitize and host additional content, as well as its partnerships around the world and commitment to digital preservation.
Expanding Access for the Local and Global Increasing Access & Empowering Glob...Martin Kalfatovic
Expanding Access for the Local and Global Increasing Access & Empowering Global Biodiversity Research through the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin R. Kalfatovic. 2018 Ohio Natural History Conference. Cleveland Museum of Natural History. 24 February 2018.
The document discusses the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), which aims to make biodiversity literature openly accessible. It notes that biodiversity information exists within a complex "knowledge ecology" of various organizations, individuals, data flows, and more. The BHL seeks to digitize the core literature on biodiversity and make it openly accessible to fit within this dynamic knowledge system. It provides details on the BHL's global scope, members, digital collections, and efforts to ensure long-term preservation of content.
An Introduction to the Biodiversity Heritage Library for the DC Science Libra...costantinog
This document introduces the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), an open access digital library containing over 50 million pages of literature from biodiversity. It provides free access to publications such as original species descriptions, distribution records, and scientific illustrations. The BHL is a global consortium of 16 members and affiliates that works to overcome barriers to research by digitizing literature and making it publicly available online. It summarizes the BHL's activities, digital collections, services, and projects to expand access to biodiversity literature and archives.
Open Access to Legacy Biodiversity Literaturetgarnett
The document discusses the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) project which aims to digitize published literature on biodiversity from the collections of major natural history libraries and make it openly accessible online. It provides an overview of the participating libraries and institutions, as well as the technical infrastructure and processes for digitization, metadata creation, and integration with other biodiversity informatics resources.
The document discusses the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), an open access digital library focused on taxonomic literature from the 18th century onward. It notes that taxonomic literature has a longer half-life of citation than other scientific disciplines. The BHL aims to digitize over 1.4-1.6 million publications, totaling 280-320 million pages, from its partner institutions to make this literature more accessible online. It has already digitized around 400,000 pre-1923 publications totaling 80 million pages.
The Biodiversity Heritage Library: Collaborating Globally, Scanning LocallyMartin Kalfatovic
The Biodiversity Heritage Library: Collaborating Globally, Scanning Locally. Librarians as Digital Leaders: Collaborating on the Development and Use of Digitized Collections. American Library Association Annual Conference. Las Vegas, NV. 28 June 2014.
Digitizing Entomology: The Biodiversity Heritage Library @ the SmithsonianMartin Kalfatovic
Digitizing Entomology: The Biodiversity Heritage Library @ the Smithsonian. Martin R. Kalfatovic. National Museum of Natural History, Department of Entomology Staff Meeting. Martin R. Kalfatovic. November 26, 2007. Washington, DC.
A practical Introduction to Machine(s) LearningBruno Gonçalves
The data deluge we currently witnessing presents both opportunities and challenges. Never before have so many aspects of our world been so thoroughly quantified as now and never before has data been so plentiful. On the other hand, the complexity of the analyses required to extract useful information from these piles of data is also rapidly increasing rendering more traditional and simpler approaches simply unfeasible or unable to provide new insights.
In this tutorial we provide a practical introduction to some of the most important algorithms of machine learning that are relevant to the field of Complex Networks in general, with a particular emphasis on the analysis and modeling of empirical data. The goal is to provide the fundamental concepts necessary to make sense of the more sophisticated data analysis approaches that are currently appearing in the literature and to provide a field guide to the advantages an disadvantages of each algorithm.
In particular, we will cover unsupervised learning algorithms such as K-means, Expectation-Maximization, and supervised ones like Support Vector Machines, Neural Networks and Deep Learning. Participants are expected to have a basic understanding of calculus and linear algebra as well as working proficiency with the Python programming language.
This document discusses Twitter data analysis and network structure. It includes summaries of research analyzing the demographics of Twitter users including gender biases towards males, age distributions that show younger users, and analyses of user geographic locations that find overrepresentation of populous areas. Network structure analyses find that a small number of popular users have many followers but follow few accounts themselves, and retweet networks spread information further than just a user's followers as tweets get shared and repeated by others not directly connected.
Free and Open Access to Biodiversity Literature: An Introduction to the Biodi...Martin Kalfatovic
Free and Open Access to Biodiversity Literature: An Introduction to the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin R. Kalfatovic. Library of Congress. 1 June 2017.
Overview of the Biodiversity Heritage Library: Recent ActivitiesMartin Kalfatovic
Overview of the Biodiversity Heritage Library: Recent Activities. Martin R. Kalfatovic. Inaugural Digital Data in Biodiversity Research Conference. Digital Data and the North American Nodes of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Co-sponsored by the University of Michigan and iDigBio. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. 5 June 2017.
Free & Open Access to Biodiversity Literature: An Introduction to the Biodive...Martin Kalfatovic
Free & Open Access to Biodiversity Literature: An Introduction to the Biodiversity Heritage Library. NDSR Workshop. Smithsonian Libraries. 2 February 2017.
The Smithsonian Institution: Diffusing Knowledge in Partnership with the DPLAMartin Kalfatovic
The Smithsonian Institution: Diffusing Knowledge in Partnership with the DPLA. Martin R. Kalfatovic. Digital Programs Advisory Committee, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 10 December 2015
BHL and Specimen Collection Data: The needle in the Festuca stackMartin Kalfatovic
BHL and Specimen Collection Data: The needle in the Festuca stack
Biodiversity_Next | 23 October 2019 | Leiden
Martin R. Kalfatovic. BHL Program Director | Biodiversity Heritage Library. ORCID: 0000-0002-4563-4627. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.3.37787
The Biodiversity Heritage Library: Empowering Discovery through Free Access to Biodiversity Knowledge | Martin R. Kalfatovic, XIX IBC 2017. Shenzhen, China. 25 July 2017
The Biodiversity Heritage Library Empowering Discovery through Free Access to...Martin Kalfatovic
The Biodiversity Heritage Library Empowering Discovery through Free Access to Biodiversity Knowledge. Martin R. Kalfatovic. XXI Congress of the Association for the Taxonomic Study of the Flora of Tropical Africa (AETFAT). Nairobi, Kenya. 18 May 2017.
Empowering Global Research: User Stories from the Biodiversity Heritage Librarycostantinog
Presentation from the evening reception at the 2018 Annual Meeting in Los Angeles. Presentation shared user stories highlighting how BHL is supporting research in global science, conservation, and museum work.
The document summarizes the current status and future plans of the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) as of May 2011. It notes that BHL has the largest collection of digitized biodiversity literature in the world, with over 34.5 million pages from 91,600 volumes. It discusses BHL's efforts to obtain copyright permissions to digitize and host additional content, as well as its partnerships around the world and commitment to digital preservation.
Expanding Access for the Local and Global Increasing Access & Empowering Glob...Martin Kalfatovic
Expanding Access for the Local and Global Increasing Access & Empowering Global Biodiversity Research through the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin R. Kalfatovic. 2018 Ohio Natural History Conference. Cleveland Museum of Natural History. 24 February 2018.
The document discusses the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), which aims to make biodiversity literature openly accessible. It notes that biodiversity information exists within a complex "knowledge ecology" of various organizations, individuals, data flows, and more. The BHL seeks to digitize the core literature on biodiversity and make it openly accessible to fit within this dynamic knowledge system. It provides details on the BHL's global scope, members, digital collections, and efforts to ensure long-term preservation of content.
An Introduction to the Biodiversity Heritage Library for the DC Science Libra...costantinog
This document introduces the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), an open access digital library containing over 50 million pages of literature from biodiversity. It provides free access to publications such as original species descriptions, distribution records, and scientific illustrations. The BHL is a global consortium of 16 members and affiliates that works to overcome barriers to research by digitizing literature and making it publicly available online. It summarizes the BHL's activities, digital collections, services, and projects to expand access to biodiversity literature and archives.
Open Access to Legacy Biodiversity Literaturetgarnett
The document discusses the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) project which aims to digitize published literature on biodiversity from the collections of major natural history libraries and make it openly accessible online. It provides an overview of the participating libraries and institutions, as well as the technical infrastructure and processes for digitization, metadata creation, and integration with other biodiversity informatics resources.
The document discusses the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), an open access digital library focused on taxonomic literature from the 18th century onward. It notes that taxonomic literature has a longer half-life of citation than other scientific disciplines. The BHL aims to digitize over 1.4-1.6 million publications, totaling 280-320 million pages, from its partner institutions to make this literature more accessible online. It has already digitized around 400,000 pre-1923 publications totaling 80 million pages.
The Biodiversity Heritage Library: Collaborating Globally, Scanning LocallyMartin Kalfatovic
The Biodiversity Heritage Library: Collaborating Globally, Scanning Locally. Librarians as Digital Leaders: Collaborating on the Development and Use of Digitized Collections. American Library Association Annual Conference. Las Vegas, NV. 28 June 2014.
Digitizing Entomology: The Biodiversity Heritage Library @ the SmithsonianMartin Kalfatovic
Digitizing Entomology: The Biodiversity Heritage Library @ the Smithsonian. Martin R. Kalfatovic. National Museum of Natural History, Department of Entomology Staff Meeting. Martin R. Kalfatovic. November 26, 2007. Washington, DC.
A practical Introduction to Machine(s) LearningBruno Gonçalves
The data deluge we currently witnessing presents both opportunities and challenges. Never before have so many aspects of our world been so thoroughly quantified as now and never before has data been so plentiful. On the other hand, the complexity of the analyses required to extract useful information from these piles of data is also rapidly increasing rendering more traditional and simpler approaches simply unfeasible or unable to provide new insights.
In this tutorial we provide a practical introduction to some of the most important algorithms of machine learning that are relevant to the field of Complex Networks in general, with a particular emphasis on the analysis and modeling of empirical data. The goal is to provide the fundamental concepts necessary to make sense of the more sophisticated data analysis approaches that are currently appearing in the literature and to provide a field guide to the advantages an disadvantages of each algorithm.
In particular, we will cover unsupervised learning algorithms such as K-means, Expectation-Maximization, and supervised ones like Support Vector Machines, Neural Networks and Deep Learning. Participants are expected to have a basic understanding of calculus and linear algebra as well as working proficiency with the Python programming language.
This document discusses Twitter data analysis and network structure. It includes summaries of research analyzing the demographics of Twitter users including gender biases towards males, age distributions that show younger users, and analyses of user geographic locations that find overrepresentation of populous areas. Network structure analyses find that a small number of popular users have many followers but follow few accounts themselves, and retweet networks spread information further than just a user's followers as tweets get shared and repeated by others not directly connected.
The Massachusetts Historical Commission was established in 1963 to identify, evaluate, and protect historic and archaeological assets in Massachusetts. It assists the 351 cities and towns through local historical commissions and provides 12 tools for historic preservation planning, including surveying historic resources, National Register listings, demolition delay bylaws, local historic districts, and being involved in the local planning process. The director discussed the responsibilities of the Commission and available publications to aid communities in preservation efforts.
Love it or hate it (and a lot of people seem to hate it), Maven is a widely used tool. We can consider that Maven has been the de-facto standard build tool for Java over the last 10 years. Most experienced developers already got their share of Maven headaches. Unfortunately, new developers are going through the same hard learning process, because they don't know how to deal with Maven particularities. "Why is this jar in my build?", "I can’t see my changes!", "The jar is not included in the distribution!", "The artifact was not found!" are common problems. Learn to tame the Maven Beast and be in complete control of your build to save you countless hours of pain and frustration.
Este documento presenta información sobre un curso de contabilidad y presupuesto para no especialistas impartido por la Contraloría General de la República de Chile. El curso explica los conceptos básicos del sistema de administración financiera del Estado, incluyendo el proceso presupuestario, los instrumentos del sistema presupuestario chileno y las clasificaciones presupuestarias del sector público.
Amazon Web Services proporciona una amplia gama de servicios que le ayudarán a crear e implementar aplicaciones de análisis de big data de forma rápida y sencilla. AWS ofrece un acceso rápido a recursos de TI económicos y flexibles, algo que permitirá escalar prácticamente cualquier aplicación de big data con rapidez, incluidos almacenamiento de datos, análisis de clics, detección de elementos fraudulentos, motores de recomendación, proceso ETL impulsado por eventos, informática sin servidor y procesamiento del Internet de las cosas.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) es una plataforma de servicios de nube que ofrece potencia de cómputo, almacenamiento de bases de datos, entrega de contenido y otra funcionalidad para ayudar a las empresas a escalar y crecer. Explore cómo millones de clientes aprovechan los productos y soluciones de la nube de AWS para crear aplicaciones sofisticadas y cada vez más flexibles, escalables y fiables.
Vest Energy Renewable Energy Crowdfunding Eunice Robson
Vest Energy’s mission is to promote and facilitate renewable energy projects that slow or reverse catastrophic climate change. Our goal is to promote projects that will find solutions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, reduce global warming, eliminate energy poverty and boost economic growth. How do we do this? By empowering those with great ideas, such as solarpreneurs, product inventors, communities and advocates for the environment to raise needed cash through our crowdfunding platform at vestenergy.com. We are environmentally conscious and want to make a direct ecological impact on the world. Our goal is to slow or reverse climate change by supporting projects that protect and help the environment.
Free & Open Access to Biodiversity Literature: An Introduction to the Biodive...Martin Kalfatovic
This document provides an introduction and overview of the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), a global consortium that provides free and open access to digitized biodiversity literature. The summary is:
The Biodiversity Heritage Library is a global consortium that provides free online access to over 52 million digitized pages of biodiversity literature. It has members from research institutions around the world and aims to make biodiversity literature openly accessible to support research. The document outlines BHL's history, collections, partnerships, and future plans to expand open access to biodiversity knowledge on a global scale.
Empowering Global Research in Biodiversity: The Biodiversity Heritage LibraryMartin Kalfatovic
Martin R. Kalfatovic is the Program Director of the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), which is a global consortium that makes biodiversity literature openly available online. Over the past 10 years, BHL has digitized over 51 million pages from over 114,000 titles. It provides free access to biodiversity literature from the 15th-21st centuries and receives on average over 100,000 users per month from around the world. BHL aims to improve research methodology by making this historical literature openly accessible and searchable online.
The Biodiversity Heritage Library & Botany: Empowering Discovery through Free...Martin Kalfatovic
The Biodiversity Heritage Library & Botany: Empowering Discovery through Free Access to Biodiversity Knowledge. Martin R. Kalfatovic. Botany 2018. Rochester, MN. 24 July 2018.
Biodiversity Heritage Library : Development and PartnerhipsNancy Gwinn
Biodiversity Heritage Library. Development and Partnerships. Nancy E. Gwinn. Biodiversity and Ecosystems Informatics Group, National Science Foundation, March 24, 2008, Washington, D.C.
3 Years On: The Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin R. Kalfatovic. BHL Australia Kick Off Meeting: Melbourne Museum. 1 June 2010. Melbourne, Australia.
The document summarizes the history and development of the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL). It discusses how BHL was founded based on the natural history collections of partner institutions. It grew to include over 53 million pages from over 128,000 titles through collaborations. BHL provides open access to these resources through its website and partnerships. It continues to expand its collection and engage users around the world through outreach and mobile accessibility.
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) provides free online access to over 51 million pages from literature and archives related to biodiversity. It is a global consortium of 18 member institutions and 17 affiliates that digitize materials from their collections. BHL makes this biodiversity literature openly accessible online to support research and education. It has over 6 million users and continues to expand its global participation and digital content.
Botanical Literature Goes Global: The Biodiversity Heritage Library warnemen
The BHL is an international collaboration of natural history libraries working together to make biodiversity literature available for use by the widest possible audience through open access and sustainable management.
Free and Open Access to Biodiversity Literature: An Introduction to the Biodi...Carolyn Sheffield
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is a global consortium that provides open access to over 51 million pages of biodiversity literature and archives. It aims to make this historical literature openly accessible online to support biodiversity research. BHL has 18 member institutions and works with over 60 worldwide partners. It receives funding from various sources including grants and member contributions. BHL content is used by millions and helps researchers study biodiversity and life on Earth.
Transforming research by unlocking biodiversity data in libraries and archive...CONUL Conference
The document summarizes the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), an open access digital library that aims to make biodiversity literature openly available. It does this through a global consortium of natural history institutions that collaborate on digitizing publications and making them freely accessible online. The BHL supports research by addressing the lack of access to historical literature. It has digitized over 12 million pages and sees millions of users annually from around the world.
African Digital Libraries in Global Content: The Biodiversity Heritage Librar...Martin Kalfatovic
African Digital Libraries in Global Content: The Biodiversity Heritage Library Model. Martin R. Kalfatovic & Anne-Lise Fourie, ICADLA-4. Accra, Ghana, 28 May 2015
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is a project to digitize the published literature of biodiversity. It aims to provide open access to over 5.4 million books and publications dating back to 1469. The BHL involves many museum, botanical garden, and research institution libraries collaborating to scan materials. It uses taxonomic intelligence to link names in the literature to databases. The long-term goal is a sustainable platform to make biodiversity literature freely available online.
An International Cooperative Digital Library for Taxonomic Literature: The Bi...Martin Kalfatovic
An International Cooperative Digital Library for Taxonomic Literature: The Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin Kalfatovic. The Catholic University of America, School of Library and Information Science. LSC 715. 6 June 2008. Washington, DC.
This document discusses the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) project and its role in supporting other biodiversity initiatives like the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL). The BHL aims to digitize published literature on biodiversity and make it openly accessible online. It has already digitized over 4 million pages and works closely with groups like EOL to integrate taxonomic data. The document outlines the BHL's goals, partnerships, digitization process, and how it brings together distributed information on species through its use of taxonomic intelligence.
The Encyclopedia of Life, Biodiversity Heritage Library, Biodiversity Informa...drielinger
The document discusses the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) project, which aims to create a web page for every known species. It provides details on the project's goals and structure, as well as its partnerships with other biodiversity organizations. These include the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), which will digitize literature to support the EOL by providing the scientific underpinning. The BHL is forming collaborations internationally to make biodiversity literature openly accessible online.
Biodiversity Heritage Library: Cornerstone of the Encyclopedia of LifeMartin Kalfatovic
The document discusses the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), an organization that aims to digitize literature related to biodiversity and make it openly accessible online. It provides details on BHL's structure, partners, efforts to digitize over 1.4 million pages of literature through mass scanning facilities, and development of tools to extract taxonomic and other scientific information from the literature. BHL's goal is to narrow the digital divide by providing access to biodiversity literature from over 250 years that is currently difficult to access.
The Biodiversity Heritage Library: A Cornerstone of the Encyclopedia of LifeMartin Kalfatovic
Presentation at the Biodiversity Heritage Library @ Smithsonian Libraries event during ALA (June 25, 2007) held at the National Museum of Natural History
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) was created in 2006 with 10 founding partners. It has grown to include 20 member institutions and 4 affiliate organizations who contribute content from their biological literature collections. BHL makes over 44 million pages of literature openly available online. It has expanded globally and sees increasing mobile usage. BHL aims to digitize all literature related to natural history and make it freely accessible to accelerate biodiversity research and education worldwide.
Semelhante a The Biodiversity Heritage Library 10 Years and More! (20)
This document discusses the growth of ebooks and the future of books in a digital format. Some key points include:
- There are over 10 million ebook titles currently available in the United States from various sources.
- Ebooks are significantly cheaper than their physical print counterparts, with ebooks costing around $6.66 on average compared to $100-180 for hardcover books.
- Ebooks offer advantages over print such as availability in multiple formats, integration of rich media, social connectivity features, and quicker publication timelines.
- The future of books is pointed towards more interactive digital formats that incorporate gamification and pricing models that are fair to both consumers and publishers.
Managing Scholarly Research Output: The Smithsonian Institution ExperienceMartin Kalfatovic
Managing Scholarly Research Output: The Smithsonian Institution Experience. Martin R. Kalfatovic, Alvin Hutchinson, Richard Naples, and Suzanne Pilsk. Smithsonian-The National Commission for Science, Technology and Innovation (NACOSTI). Washington, DC, 16 May 2019.
Seeing a Butterfly & Knowing What It Is: BHL: Past > Present > FutureMartin Kalfatovic
Seeing a Butterfly & Knowing What It Is: BHL: Past > Present > Future. Martin R. Kalfatovic. 2019 BHL Annual Meeting. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. 30 April 2019.
Managing Scholarly Research Output: The Smithsonian Institution ExperienceMartin Kalfatovic
Managing Scholarly Research Output: The Smithsonian Institution Experience. Martin R. Kalfatovic, Alvin Hutchinson, Richard Naples, and Suzanne Pilsk. CNI Spring Meeting. St. Louis, MO. 8 April 2019.
Discoverable, Accessible, Reusable, and Transparent (DART): Scholarly Communi...Martin Kalfatovic
Discoverable, Accessible, Reusable, and Transparent (DART): Scholarly Communications and the Research Museum. Martin R. Kalfatovic. Global Summit of Research Museums. Berlin. 5 November 2018.
Cultural Heritage and the Technology of Culture: Finding the Nature of Illumi...Martin Kalfatovic
Cultural Heritage and the Technology of Culture: Finding the Nature of Illumination in Libraries and Museums. Martin R. Kalfatovic. 9th Shanghai International Library Forum. Shanghai, China. 19 October 2018.
Smithsonian Libraries: Digital Programs and Initiatives DivisionMartin Kalfatovic
This document outlines the organization of the Smithsonian Libraries' Digital Programs and Initiatives Division. It details the various departments within the division including Digital Library and Digitization, Metadata, Biodiversity Heritage Library, Outreach and Education, Scholarly Communications, and Web Services. It provides an overview of the roles and current projects of each department as they work to advance the Smithsonian's strategic goal of reaching 1 billion people annually through a digital first strategy.
The Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG): Opportunities for Collaboratio...Martin Kalfatovic
The Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG), also known as the Taxonomic Databases Working Group, is a non-profit scientific and educational association that is affiliated with the International Union of Biological Sciences. TDWG was formed to establish international collaboration among biological database projects and related services. Promoting the wider and more effective dissemination of information about the World's heritage of biological organisms for the benefit of the world at large, TDWG focuses on the development of standards for the exchange of biological/biodiversity data. TDWG promotes the use of standards through the most appropriate and effective means and acts as a forum for discussion through holding meetings and through publications, especially the recently launched open access journal, Biodiversity Information Standards and Science. This presentation will focus on areas of possible collaboration by the larger networked information community around bioinformatic standards, areas where TDWG collaborates with other biodiversity organizations such as the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL), and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).
A Vast Library of Life: The Biodiversity Heritage LibraryMartin Kalfatovic
A Vast Library of Life: The Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin R. Kalfatovic. Aim, Scope & Challenges of Research Museums: An Exchange between the Smithsonian Institution & Leibniz Association. Washington, DC. 30 October 2017.
Smithsonian Libraries in Service of Scholarly Communications: An Introduction...Martin Kalfatovic
Smithsonian Libraries in Service of Scholarly Communications: An Introduction to Smithsonian Research Online & Other Resources. Martin R. Kalfatovic. Aim, Scope & Challenges of Research Museums: An Exchange between the Smithsonian Institution & Leibniz Association. Washington, DC. 30 October 2017.
Digital Programs & Initiatives @ Smithsonian Libraries: Scholarly Communicati...Martin Kalfatovic
Digital Programs & Initiatives @ Smithsonian Libraries: Scholarly Communications | Digital Library | Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin R. Kalfatovic. Presentation for the National Library of Medicine Staff. Smithsonian Libraries. Washington, DC. 9 June 2017
“The Gift of Time”: Impact through Open: The Biodiversity Heritage LibraryMartin Kalfatovic
“The Gift of Time”: Impact through Open: The Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin R. Kalfatovic. Bracing for Impact: Digitizing Collections to Change Lives. 2017 Smithsonian Digitization Fair. Washington. 19 October 2017.
How Did We Get Here from There? The Origin Story of The Biodiversity Heritage...Martin Kalfatovic
How Did We Get Here from There? The Origin Story of The Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin R. Kalfatovic. 2017 Library Leaders Forum. Internet Archive. San Francisco. 13 October 2017.
Managing Scholarly Research Output The Smithsonian Institution Experience: An...Martin Kalfatovic
Managing Scholarly Research Output The Smithsonian Institution Experience: An Introduction to Smithsonian Research Online. Martin R. Kalfatovic with Alvin Hutchinson and Richard Naples. Mpala Research Centre and Wildlife Foundation, Laikipia County, Kenya. 22 May 2017.
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The Biodiversity Heritage Library 10 Years and More!
1. Martin R. Kalfatovic
Program Director
Biodiversity Heritage Library
Smithsonian Libraries
The Biodiversity Heritage Library
10 Years and More!
TDWG 2016 |
CTEC
December 2016
San Carlos, Costa
Rica
2. “The cultivation of natural history
cannot be efficiently carried out
without reference to an extensive
library.”
Charles Darwin, et al (1847)
3.
4.
5. Inspiring Discovery through Free Access
to Biodiversity Knowledge
10 years of inspiring discovery
15th
-21st
centuries
through
free & open access
to biodiversity literature & archives
from the
Mission
The Biodiversity Heritage Library improves research
methodology by collaboratively making biodiversity
literature openly available to the world as part of a
global biodiversity community.
6. Natural history literature and archives contain
information that is critical to studying life on Earth.
SPECIES
DESCRIPTIONS
DISTRIBUTION
RECORDS
HISTORY OF
SCIENTIFIC
DISCOVERY
CLIMATE
RECORDS
INFORMATION
ON EXTINCT
SPECIES
SCIENTIFIC
OBSERVATIONS
ECOSYSTEM
PROFILES
SCIENTIFIC
ILLUSTRATIONS
9. “BHL came to the rescue when a planned trip to
work in the Mertz Library at The New York
Botanical Garden had to be cancelled due to
Hurricane Sandy. Thanks to the online resources
available through BHL I was able to source most of
the key works I needed, with their supporting
bibliographic information.”
Gina Douglas
Honorary Archivist
Linnean Society of London
Governance
13. BHL is a Global Consortium
17MEMBERS
AS OF DECEMBER 2016
16AFFILIATES
60+ WORLDWIDE PARTNERS
18!
14. “Last year I threw down the gauntlet to [BHL staff] and asked if
there was any possibility of BHL arranging to have made available
the entire run of the UK periodical The Gardeners' Chronicle. I
asked because there is nowhere in my country of residence
(Denmark) that holds it, requiring that I make time consuming and
expensive research trips to London or Cambridge in the UK should I
wish to examine the periodical. I was amazed and delighted that
BHL has achieved what I asked. This contribution to the BHL
catalogue has been a real boon to my research.”
Dr. Toby Musgrave
Horticulturalist & Botanist
Lecturer, Danish Institute for Study Abroad
BHL Content
16. BHL includes all
levels of organismic
organization, from
genes to
ecosystems, as well
as other disciplines
affecting the study
of the biodiversity of
life on earth.
17. Not just “heritage”
collections
> 23% of BHL's collection of
188,970 items is post-1922
> 72.3% of BHL’s collection is
free of copyright restriction in
the United States
As of August 2016
18.
19. Systema naturae
per regna tria
naturae.
Ed. 10, 1758.
biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/542
___________________
Considered the starting
point of zoological
nomenclature.
Listed about 10,000
species of organisms, of
which about 6,000 are
plants and 4,236 are
animals.
The earliest work in BHL is
Theophrasti De Historia plantarum liber primus
(1483)
biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40913187
20. Logbook of the
yacht "France"
Whitney South Sea
Expedition of the American
Museum of Natural History
Volume: v.2 (1926-1928)
biodiversitylibrary.org/page/44821245
__________________
BHL includes over 100,000
pages of Field Notes and
related archival material.
Ongoing transcription projects
will make these fully
searchable.
21. Bonn Zoological
Bulletin 61 (1): 135-
39 (July 2012)
biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4482124
___________________
With the assistance of
BioStor, BHL now indexes
over 202,000 articles,
chapters or other “segments”
of BHL content.
These are all searchable
through the bibliographic
interface to BHL.
Scotopteryx kuznetzovi
(Wardikian, 1957)
(Lepidoptera, Geometridae,
Larentiinae),
a new species for the fauna of
Iran and Turkey
Hossein Rajaei Sh.* & Dieter
Stuning
22. Charles Darwin’s Library
biodiversitylibrary.org/browse/collection/darwi
nlibrary
___________________
A digital edition and virtual
reconstruction of the surviving
books owned by Charles Darwin.
It also provides full transcriptions of
his annotations and marks. These
works provide important insight into
the development of Darwin’s ideas
on evolution and natural selection.
"If this were true, adios theory"
Charles Darwin wrote these words in
response to reading Principles of
Geology, v. 2 (1837) by Charles
Lyell, who was arguing that changes
in species have limitations. Darwin,
on the other hand, argued that
changes in species are infinite and
continuous, an integral concept
crucial to his theory of evolution.
23. “BHL is a tremendous and extremely
valuable resource. It has done an
enormous amount to enhance the
capacity of developing countries to
undertake taxonomic research on their
biota.”
Dr. Dai Herbert
Malacologist
KwaZulu-Natal Museum, Pietermaritzburg
University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg
Usage: Macro
27. "I think BHL is one of the most important and
useful resources online right now. Judging by
how often I use it, I’d say it has an impact on
my research commensurate with that of
Google Scholar or Web of Science.”
Andrew Durso
Ph.D. Student, Herpetology
Biology Department
Utah State University
Expanding
Directions
28. 107,000+
IMAGES IN FLICKR
TOTAL IMAGES
TAGGED29,900+
202+MILLION
TOTAL VIEWS ON IMAGES
OF TOTAL FLICKR
COLLECTION TAGGED
TAGGED IMAGES IN
EOL
27% 18,000+
BHL FLICKR NAMED 1 OF WIRED’S
27 MUST-FOLLOW FEEDS IN
THE WORLD OF SCIENCE
*Stats as of November 2016
WWW.FLICKR.COM/BIODIVLIBRARY
29. Engagement
BHL is used in exhibitions in our
partner institutions, such as “Once
There Were Billions” at the National
Museum of Natural History.
30. “Congratulations on a superior on-line library service that is of
great help to anybody that has no direct access to old literature
(like many scientists in developing countries). I used to be
located in the Natural History Museum in Leiden, Netherlands
with an excellent library, but after my retirement I moved to
Brazil and lost direct contact with the Leiden library. In many
cases BHL now provides what I am looking for.”
Dr. Marinus Hoogmoed
Curator of Reptiles and Amphibians, 1963-2003
Naturalis Biodiversity Center
BHL Technology
31. BHL Technical Platform
Continuing to build for sustainability
• BHL Public Website hosted by the
Smithsonian Institution (Nov. 2016)
• All files stored actively at the Internet
Archive (and the IA back up facilities)
• Dark archive of all BHL files stored at
the Smithsonian (with regular file
harvest)
• Additional copy of BHL files at the
Bibliotheca Alexandrina (Egypt)
• Development work based at the
Missouri Botanical Garden
33. DOI
ASSIGNMENT
104,000+
TO DATEThe birds of Australia (1865) by John Gould
http://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.8367
Enables persistent citation of
BHL content in publications. Most
cited BHL item is Systema
Naturae (1758)
34. TAXONOMIC
NAME
SEARCHING
The Global Names
Architecture (GNA) is a
system of web-services
which helps people to
register, find, index,
check and organize
biological scientific
names and interconnect
on-line information about
species.
Names Discovery Engines
•NetiNeti
•TaxonFinder
35. “I am pretty sure I exclaimed ‘this is
amazing!’ out loud as soon as I discovered
BHL, and I immediately bookmarked it in my
browser. BHL helps fill this void by providing
such resources freely to the public.”
Aaron Sims
Rare Plant Botanist
California Native Plant Society (CNPS)
Finances
36.
37. Expanding Access to Biodiversity
Literature
•Funded by the Institute of Museum and
Library Services (IMLS) in 2015 as part of the
National Leadership Grants for Libraries
program.
•Two-year award for $846,457.
•Will help libraries, museums, and natural
history societies make their content more
widely available by providing the tools and
support necessary to facilitate contribution to
the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)
through BHL.
•Lead Institution: The New York Botanical
Garden.
•Participating Institutions: Harvard Ernst Mayr
Library of the Museum of Comparative
Zoology (MCZ), Missouri Botanical Garden
(MBG), and Smithsonian Libraries (SIL).
•Progress to date: 2274 volumes (169 titles;
245,434 pages); 86 in copyright titles from 45
contributors.
38. Foundations to Actions: Extending
Innovations in Digital Libraries in
Partnership with NDSR Learners
•A digital stewardship residency project
funded by the Institute of Museum and Library
Services (IMLS).
•Two-year award for $370,756.
•5 residents at 6 geographically-distributed
partners will plan and develop a next
generation digital library using the
Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) as a test-
bed.
•Outcomes will include a best practices
document for digital libraries incorporating
transcriptions, image searching, collection
analysis techniques and improved
connections to museums, archives and other
relevant databases.
•Lead Institution: Harvard MCZ.
•Participating Institutions: Field Museum of
Natural History, Chicago Botanic Garden,
Missouri Botanical Garden, Los Angeles
County Museum of Natural History, and
Smithsonian Libraries.
39. Biodiversity Heritage Library
Field Notes Project
•Funded by Council on Library and
Information Resources (CLIR) in 2015 as part of
Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and
Archives.
•Two-year award for $491,713.
•Will coordinate work to digitize field notes,
assign metadata, and publish online through
BHL & Internet Archive.
•Lead Institutions: Smithsonian Libraries and
Smithsonian Institution Archives.
•Participating Institutions: Missouri Botanical
Garden, Peter H. Raven Library; American
Museum of Natural History; Yale Peabody
Museum; Harvard University Herbaria, Botany
Libraries; Harvard University, Museum of
Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library;
University of California, Berkeley Museum of
Vertebrate Zoology; The New York Botanical
Garden, The LuEsther T. Mertz Library; The
Field Museum; and Internet Archive.
42. FUNDING SOURCES
• Member and Affiliate Dues & Fees
• Institutional Endowments
• Grants
• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
• Arcadia Fund
• Council on Library & Information
Resources
• Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation
• Institute of Museum & Library Services
• JRS Foundation
• MacArthur Foundation
• Mellon Foundation
• National Endowment for the Humanities
• National Science Foundation (NSF)
• Richard Lounsbery Foundation
• U.S. Federal Funding
• Federal allocation to Smithsonian
Libraries
• Donations
• Product Development
• Institutional Subventions
• In-Kind Contributions
43. CASH & IN-KIND CONTRIBUTIONS
DIRECT STAFF
$1,112,785.14
VALUE
OF
MEMBER & AFFILIATE
CONTRIBUTIONS 2015
OTHER
$246,123.06
2014
VS
2015
TOTAL IN-KIND
CONTRIBUTIONS
2014
$1,437,666.46
2015
$1,358,908.20
14TOTAL MEMBER & AFFILIATE
FTEs WORKING ON BHL IN 2015
44. “BHL is an awesomely useful resource!
It’s very helpful to have the BHL when
I’m traveling away from ‘home base.’
No need to carry around a rare 120
year old book if you can just open a
scanned file of it on your computer.”
Dr. Christopher Mah
Invertebrate Zoologist
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Outreach
45. 55,000+
TOTAL FOLLOWERS ON
SOCIAL MEDIA
TOTAL FOLLOWERS
10,800+
TOTAL FOLLOWERS
10,900+
TOTAL FOLLOWERS
26,000+
TOTAL FOLLOWERS
4,900+
AVERAGE
MONTHLY
READERS (CY16)
2,300+
FOLLOW @BIODIVLIBRARY
*Stats as of November 2016
TOTAL FOLLOWERS
2,400+
* BHL Instagram launched August 2016
46. MAJOR MEETINGS
• 2016 DLF Forum, Milwaukee, 6-9 November 2016
• GBIF 23, Brasilia, 24-28 October 2016
• Library Leaders Forum 2016, Internet Archive, San
Francisco, 26-28 October 2015
• CETAF 40 General Assembly Madrid, Spain, 18-19
October 2016
• The 8th Shanghai International Library Forum,
Shanghai, 6-8 July 2016
• SPNHC 31st Annual Meeting, Berlin, 19-26 June
2016
• Open Repositories, Ireland, June 2016
• Society for Scholarly Publishing, Vancouver, June
2016
• BHL/ITIS/EOL/GBIF Meeting, Prague, June 2016
• BHL 2016 Annual Meeting and 7th Global BHL
Meeting, London, 11-15 April 2016
• BHL Mexico Workshop, CONABIO, Mexico City,
Mexico, 2-4 December 2015
• LITA Forum, Minneapolis, 15 November 2015 BHL
• Staff Meeting, Washington, DC, 12-13 November
2015
• Library Leaders Forum 2015, Internet Archive, San
Francisco, 21-23 October 2015
• 22nd GBIF Governing Board Meeting (GB22),
Madagascar, 5-11 October 2015
• TDWG 2015, Nairobi, 28 September - 1 October
2015
50. AWARDS
• Digital Library Federation (DLF) 2016
Community/Capacity Award (joint recipient with
Archive of American Broadcasting).
2016
• Internet Archive Hero Award. Global Leaders
in Sharing Knowledge.
2015
• Laureate. IDG’s Computerworld Honors
Program.
• Charles Robert Long Award of Extraordinary
Merit. Council on Botanical and Horticultural
Libraries.
2013
• Victorian Government Arts Leadership
Recognition Award (BHL Australia).
2012
• John Thackray Medal. The Society for the
History of Natural History.
2011
• Outstanding Collaboration Award. Association
for Library Collections & Technical Services
(ALCTS).
2010
51. ... meeting the aspirational goals
of the Convention on Biodiversity
and the Darwin Declaration
A Larger Context
BHL supports institutions in ...
52. “Such exchange of information shall include
exchange of results of technical, scientific
and socio-economic research, as well as
information on training and surveying
programmes, specialized knowledge,
indigenous and traditional knowledge as
such and in combination with the
technologies referred to in Article 16,
paragraph 1. It shall also, where feasible,
include repatriation of information.”
A Larger Context
Convention on Biodiversity (CBD Article 17, 1992)
53. “The essential requirements for
accessing and utilising this global
information are: that existing
information held in literature and
by current experts is made
available electronically ”
A Larger Context
Darwin Declaration (1998)
54. “Joining BHL represents a greater opportunity for
CONABIO to provide broader access to Mexico’s
biodiversity knowledge contained within published
literature. We believe that only with a well-informed
society it is possible to develop and strengthen a
culture of appreciation and valuation of Mexico’s
natural capital.”
Dr. José Sarukhán
CONABIO National Coordinator
Mexico City, Mexico
In Closing …
55. BHL strives to be part of that larger "Biodiversity
Commons" and provide a space for the literature
of biodiversity to be available such that ...
it is a zone of fair use
sustainable use without jeopardizing original
ownership rights
respects organizational/individual "moral
rights" (rights of authors)
protects against unauthorized commercial use
Tom Moritz, "A Vision for the Biodiversity Commons" (2004)
56. By engaging with the larger
biodiversity community and major
stakeholder institutions, BHL is
creating a sustainable
biodiversity commons for the
literature of taxonomy.
57. The Commons succeeds when,
among other elements, there is
"the presence of a
community; small and stable
populations with a thick
social network and social
norms".
BHL has created that community
among our natural history and
botanical libraries
Elinor Ostrom, "Sustainable development and the
tragedy of commons" (2009)