Presentation to Smithsonian's Office of the Chief Information Officer.

1. Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL): Technology Overview Chris Freeland Director, Bioinformatics Missouri Botanical Garden Technical Director Biodiversity Heritage Library [email_address] www.biodiversitylibrary.org

3. Why have BHL? 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. One never knows wherein one edition differs from or supplements the other and unless these are on the same table at the same time it is not possible to collate them properly. Moreover for accurate work it is necessary for the student to verify every reference he may find ; it is not enough to copy from a previous author; he must verify each reference itself from the original . Charles Davies Sherborn, Epilogue to Index Animalium , March 1922 Charles Davies Sherborn (1861-1942)

6. Mushrooms of America, edible and poisonous. Ed. by Julius A. Palmer, Jr. , 1885.

7. Scan & Store: Internet Archive Scanning on Scribes Storage in Petaboxes

13. Stable URL Attribution Name Finding Page Turning Page Turning Zoom/Pan Download/View Browse Search Filter Target/Object

15. LizardTech ExpressServer Browser GSIV.js www.biodiversitylibrary.org .jp2 .jpg IA /page/1274907 pageid: 1274907 BHLdb http://www.archive.org/download/mushroomsofameri00palm/.../mushroomsofameri00palm_0010.jp2 images.mobot.org A user requests Mushrooms of America, edible and poisonous , Plate X: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1274907 locate: BHL/IA architecture = 5.0+ sec transfer Time to deliver image: 8+ sec

16. Reuse, don’t rebuild

17. TIF Image from Scanner Converted to text via PrimeOCR Name finding via TaxonFinder Extract names Submit to NameBank SOAP response Name Finding in action with Taxonomic Intelligence…

18. Names data mining

19. Tag cloud from LCSH Subject Heading from library catalog Expressed as MARCXML Tag Cloud

20. Geocoding LCSH

23. BHL Name Services http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/services/name/NameService.asmx

28. MOBOT Petabox cluster Internet Archive