1. Global References Index to Biodiversity (GRIB)
3rd EDIT Publishing Meeting, Copenhagen, October Friday 8th, 2010
Boris Jacob | EDIT WP5 Bibliographic Tools | Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
A bibliographic index of EDIT and BHL-Europe
partner libraries and a scanning management
tool for librarians and scientists.

2. 3rd EDIT Publishing Meeting, Copenhagen, Friday 8th 2010
Boris Jacob | EDIT WP5 Bibliographic Tools | Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
ToC
• What is the Biodiversity Heritage Library
• What is EDIT/ViTaL
• Why we team up
• Global References Index to Biodiversity
• GRIB Prototype
• GRIB Digitisation Management
• GRIB Web Services
• Outlook

3. 3rd EDIT Publishing Meeting, Copenhagen, Friday 8th 2010
Boris Jacob | EDIT WP5 Bibliographic Tools | Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
Biodiversity Heritage Library
for Europe
• BHL-Europe Project startet in 2009. Not funded to digitise, but a
best practice network building a solution with existing (state-of-the-
art) technologies and bring it onto the market.
• Improving the interoperability of European biodiversity digital
libraries.
• Facilitate the open access to taxonomic literature for a large number
of target users including the general public.
• Provide a multilingual access point for the search and retrieval of
biodiversity content through EUROPEANA and BHL.
• Develop operational strategies and processes for long-term
preservation and sustainability of the data.
• Facilitate and enable the initiation of scanning initiatives in European
countries.

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Boris Jacob | EDIT WP5 Bibliographic Tools | Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
BHL-Portal

5. 3rd EDIT Publishing Meeting, Copenhagen, Friday 8th 2010
Boris Jacob | EDIT WP5 Bibliographic Tools | Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
EDIT/ViTaL
• WP 5.3 Activity/ViTaL - Virtual Library of Taxonomic Literature and
Documentation as a platform component.
• ViTaL Metasearch engine was stuck in an dead-end.
ReViTaLization in Nov. 2009. EDIT and BHL-Europe started
envisioning a shared bibliographical index called GRIB.
• Teaming up: Shared Partners and goals
• 29 partners in EDIT
• 28 partners in BHL-Europe
• 16 in EDIT & BHL-Europe
EDIT BHL-E
29 16 28

6. 3rd EDIT Publishing Meeting, Copenhagen, Friday 8th 2010
Boris Jacob | EDIT WP5 Bibliographic Tools | Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
Teaming up
• Create an index of bibliographic references based on the EDIT
partner’s taxonomic literature catalogues using mechanisms
developed jointly with the BHL-Europe Project.
• Linked to the index of references, provide information on subscribed
digital literature resources available at the partners. Link through to
these resources where access is permitted.
• Link freely available digital resources (e.g. BHL) to the index of
references.
• Make the search capabilities for the index of references accessible
as (i) a web service and (ii) within a web page (ViTaL web portal).
• Allow users of the index of references to nominate literature items
for digitisation.
EDIT JPA5/5.3 of March 2010

7. 3rd EDIT Publishing Meeting, Copenhagen, Friday 8th 2010
Boris Jacob | EDIT WP5 Bibliographic Tools | Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
Global References Index to Biodiversity
• GRIB is build by the VZG of the Common Library Network GBV.
• Imported library catalogues:
• NHM (Natural History Museum, London)
• NBN (Netherlands Centre for Biodiversity Naturalis)
• MFN (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
• FUB BGBM (Freie Universität Berlin - Botanical Garden and
Botanical Museum)
• BHL-US (allows link to electronic full text)
• Now holds 325.805 deduplicated titles and articles

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Boris Jacob | EDIT WP5 Bibliographic Tools | Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
GRIB Prototype

9. 3rd EDIT Publishing Meeting, Copenhagen, Friday 8th 2010
Boris Jacob | EDIT WP5 Bibliographic Tools | Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
GRIB Digitisation Management
Digitisation Status
Not digitised
Should be digitised
Will be digitised
Digitisation in progress
Digitisation completed
Document available
Digitisation status can be set by authenticated
users depending on their specific roles.
RESTful web service to set and see digitisation
status

10. 3rd EDIT Publishing Meeting, Copenhagen, Friday 8th 2010
Boris Jacob | EDIT WP5 Bibliographic Tools | Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
GRIB Services
Using GRIB services e.g. in CDM based EDIT Platform components
Taxonomic Editor
GRIB
CDM
• Search for references directly from within the Taxonomic Editor
• Reuse of references from result set in the Taxonomic Editor,
storeable in CDM Community Store
SRU = Search and Retrieve via URI
CDM = Common Data Model
According user interface elements are
currently under construction
SRUServiceWrapper
SRU

11. 3rd EDIT Publishing Meeting, Copenhagen, Friday 8th 2010
Boris Jacob | EDIT WP5 Bibliographic Tools | Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
Outlook
• Autumn 2010
• Initial import of EDIT & BHL-Europe library catalogues
• GRIB user review and technical review
• Winter 2010/2011
• Implementation of mechanism to update library catalogues into
GRIB
• Sustainability review
• Spring 2011
• Live-version of the GRIB, further development by BHL-Europe

12. 3rd EDIT Publishing Meeting, Copenhagen, Friday 8th 2010
Boris Jacob | EDIT WP5 Bibliographic Tools | Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
Contact & Information
• Email: boris.jacob@mfn-berlin.de
• News: http://twitter.com/editvital
• GRIB Prototype: http://grib.gbv.de
• EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy: http://wp5.e-taxonomy.eu
• BHL-Europe: http://www.bhl-europe.eu
• BHL: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org