Poster for RDAP13 Research Data Access and Preservation conference April 4-6, 2013 Baltimore MD

1. Biodiversity Heritage Library The Biodiversity Heritage Library is an international
consortium of natural history libraries and research centers
dedicated to providing free access to the world’s biodiversity
literature. With over 40 million pages of digitized text, the
Content liberator BHL is an invaluable resource for researchers worldwide.
Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) embodies E.O. Wilson's Bibliographic metadata is aggregated by OCLC and is
dream to provide a webpage for every species. BHL included in Serial Solution’s Summon discovery service
provides bibliographic references to EOL via OpenURL by periodically harvesting data using OAI-PMH
and image data through flickr: http://ow.ly/jdQUh
The BHL mobilizes biodiversity Bibliographic metadata is available
content by identifying & exposing for download in a variety of
over 100 million scientific names formats (MODS, BibTex, EndNote)
Images are shared on flickr.com where anyone is embedded within the digitized
welcome to add species name machine tags such
for individual items, and for all Biostor, developed by taxonomist Rod
as “taxonomy:binomial=Genus species”. EOL then texts. http://ow.ly/jdPin items in bulk as .csv or via API Page, extracts, annotates, & provides
harvests tagged images for display on eol.org visualizations for data in BHL found
via OpenURL http://ow.ly/jdPH6
Open Data Policy
OpenURL Bulk data
Microdata
resolver exports
OAI-
APIs
PMH
Scientific names change through time. Using
BHL & EOL data Ryan Schenk, developer of Metadata is provided on the page as
Synynyms, provides a chronological visualization COinS , RDFa, and in schema.org markup for search
of name popularity and use http://ow.ly/jdRdw engines and tools like Mendeley and Zotero.
Bianca Crowley, Collections Coordinator, Biodiversity Heritage Library/Smithsonian Libraries Keri Thompson, Digital Projects Librarian, Smithsonian Libraries Constance Rinaldo, Librarian of the Ernst Mayr Library Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University