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A Global Library for Life
BHL-Europe
Caterina Guiducci
Universitá degli Studi di Firenze,
Museo di Storia Naturale
Biblioteca di Scienze
10 June 2009
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Biodiversity Heritage Library for
Europe
Improving the interoperability of
European biodiversity digital
libraries
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The cultivation of
natural science cannot
be efficiently carried on
without reference to an
extensive biodiversity
library organized
following taxonomic
criteria
Charles Darwin et al. (1847)
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First of all: the meaning of biodiversity and…
Biodiversity is the variations
of life forms within a given
ecosystem, biome or for the
entire Earth.
The biodiversity found on Earth
today consists of many millions
of animal and plant species,
which is the product of nearly
3,5 billion years of evolution.
(Wikipedia, s.v. Biodiversity,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodiversity)
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…and the meaning of Taxonomy
Taxonomy is the practice and science of
classification and uses taxonomic units,
known as taxa (singular taxon).
Linnean classification system, developed in
the 18th century, is the basis of the modern
zoological and botanical classification and
of the naming system for species.
(Wikipedia, s.v. Taxonomy,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxonomy)
BHL uses taxonomy as a global and
common subject-based classification.
In DC subject element taxonomies attempt
to completely describe all of the terms in a
field, as well as the relationship between
the terms, supplying a unique access point.
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Taxonomic Literature
• The cited half-life of
publications in taxonomy
is longer than in any other
scientific discipline
• Over 250 years of
systematic description of
life
ES. Systema naturae (10th ed.
1758) by Carl von Linné
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Biodiversity Heritage Library is
growing in US and Europe through:
BHL (US)  from 2005
BHL (Europe)  from 2009
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BHL (1)– United States
Goals:
 Scan public domain biodiversity
literature.
 Negotiate rights to digitize
copyrighted materials
 Ingest content digitized by others
 Provide interfaces for repository
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BHL Members
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American Museum of Natural
History (New York)
Field Museum (Chicago)
Natural History Museum (London)
Smithsonian Institution Libraries
(Washington)
Missouri Botanical Garden (St.
Louis)
New York Botanical Garden (New
York)
Royal Botanic Garden (Kew, UK)
Botany Libraries, Harvard
University
Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum
of Comparative Zoology, Harvard
University
Marine Biological Laboratory /
Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institution
BHL Partnerships
•EOL (Encyclopedia of Life)
•Internet Archive
•Open Content Alliance
•ZipCodeZoo
•European Distributed Institute
of Taxonomy (EDIT)
•Global Biodiversity Information
Facility (GBIF)
•International Commission on
Zoological Nomenclature
•BioOne
•Learned Societies
•Publishers (Wiley)
•uBio
•Many more under negotiation
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BHL Focus: Literature
•Digitize the core literature of
biodiversity. Full works, not
bits & pieces.
•Open Access: all content can
be repurposed, reused,
reformatted.
•Congruent: must fit in to a
dynamic knowledge ecology.
•Public Domain – pre-1923
•Core literature pre-1923: ~100
million pages
BHL achievements
1.3 million catalogue records
73% are monographs
(remainder are serials at
title-level)
63% is English language
material
The next most popular
language (9%) is German
About 30% of material was
published before 1923.
32,000 volumes, 13,000,000
pages digitized
•All pre-1923: 120-150 million pages
•All literature: 280-320 million pages
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BHL (2)- Europe
Goals:
• No digitisation:
- BHL-Europe is not funded to digitise
• Best Practice Network:
- no research and development
project
- building a solution with existing
(state-of-the-art) technologies and
bring it onto the market
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BHL-Europe Goals
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Provide a multilingual access point for the search and retrieval of
biodiversity content through EUROPEANA and BHL
Review and test approaches for the establishment and management
of multilingual biodiversity digital libraries
Improve the interoperability of European biodiversity digital
libraries by the innovative application of proven technologies
Promote the adoption of best practice methods, standards and
specifications for the large-scale implementation of such
repositories
Facilitate the open access to taxonomic literature for a large
number of target users including the general public
Develop operational strategies and processes for long-term
preservation and sustainability of the data produced by national
biodiversity digitisation programmes
Facilitate and enable the initiation of scanning initiatives in
European countries not yet involved in digitisation programmes and
improve the infrastructure for digital libraries in all EU countries
Negotiate with Rights Holders to enable access to in-copyright
content
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BHL-Europe and Europeana
• Provide science material to join Europeana
• Cooperation at technical level to ensure interoperability
• Common intellectual property rights policies
• An application will be developed to interface with and
ingest from the current Biodiversity Heritage Library
Portal
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Scientific vs. Non-scientific Users
Target users
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Libraries
Digitisation centres
Digital library / Open Access networks
Scientists (e.g. Biology)
Scientists (e.g. History, Cultural
heritage)
Citizen scientists
Students of different levels (primary to
academic)
School teachers
Environmental and Conservation
agencies / Government officials /
Policy makers
Artists
European citizens
“It is clear, that only a small
fraction of the available
natural history and biodiversity
resources are of interest to
non-scientific users and could
be meaningfully interlinked
with cultural heritage content.
Yet, even this small fraction
represents a high potential for
adding value to the European
Digital Library initiative.”
(D 6.5. Technology
Watch Report,
Nov 08, STERNA,
ECP-2007-DILI-517012)
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Participants – Overview
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Biodiversity Heritage Libraries in Europe
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Natural History Museum, London, UK
Narodni Muzeum, Prague, CZ
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Stiftung Öffentlichen Rechts, DE
Land Oberösterreich (Oberösterreichische Landesmuseen), AT
Hungarian Natural History Museum, HU
University of Copenhagen (Natural History Museum of Denmark), DK
Stichting Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum Naturalis, Leiden, NL
National Botanic Garden of Belgium, BE
Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, BE
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, BE
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, FR
Museum National d‘Histoire Naturelle, Paris, FR
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Madrid, ES
Museo di Storia Naturale e Biblioteca di Scienze, Universita’ di Firenze, IT
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, UK
Helsingin Yliopisto, Helsinki, FI
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Networking Capacity
BHL-Europe
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BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library)
AnimalBase
ATHENA (Access To cultural HEritage Networks
Across Europe)
BIOTA ((The Artificial Life Project)
Catalogue of Life (Species 2000)
CETAF (Consortium of European Taxonomic
Facilities)
DELOS (Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries)
DINI (Deutsche Initiative für Netzwerkinformation)
DRIVER (Digital repository Infrastructure Vision for
European Research)
EDIT (European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy)
ENBI (European Network for Biodiversity
Information)
ENRICH (European Networking Resources and
Information)
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life)
EUROPEANA
EUROPEANA Connect
GALLICA
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility)
IMPACT (Improving Access to Text)
Key2Nature
LIFEWATCH
MICHAEL (Multilingual inventory of cultural heritage
in Europe)
MINERVA EUROPE (knowledge base – digitising
content together)
NATURALIS
OCLC (Online Computer Library Center)
STERNA (Semantic Web-based Thematic European
Reference Network Application)
SYNTHESIS (Synthesis of Systematic Resources)
TDWG (Biodiversity Information Standards)
THESEUS
uBIO (Indexing & Organizing Biological names)
VITAL (Enabling Convergence of IP Multimedia
Services Over Next Generation Networks
Technology)
EUROPEANA Local
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Name Finding via TaxonFinder
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SOAP response
Raw Image
Name finding via TaxonFinder
Submit to NameBank
Extract names
Converted to text via OCR
Name Finding in action
with Taxonomic Intelligence…
BHL/IA architecture
A user requests
Mushrooms of America, edible and poisonous, Plate X:
http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1274907
Browser
IIPViewer
/page/1274907
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images.biodivlibrary.org
djatoka
BHLdb
.jp2
IA
pageid: 1274907
locate: http://www.archive.org/download/mushroomsofameri00palm/.../mushroomsofameri00palm_0010.jp2
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Technologies in hand 
Needed 
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Deduplication Tools
Storage
OCR
Markup/rekeying
UI/UX
Interface translation
Data synchronization
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TaxonFinder
djatoka
IA Bookreader
Drupal/Biblio
OAI-PMH
OpenURL
Fedora
Commons
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Social tagging involvement in BHL and
BHL Europe: a different approach …
• Authoritative tags not generated from a
folksonomy
• Reuse of specialized descriptive metadata
• LCSH offer a controlled vocabulary routinely
applied within BHL libraries
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Tag clouds
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BHL 2.0
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BHL 2.0 activities:
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Facebook
Flickr
Wikispaces
Blog
Twitter
Twibe
Etc.
Coming soon:
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SecondLife
LibraryThing
OpenLibrary
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