Presentation at Arizona State University

1. The Encyclopedia of Life, Biodiversity Heritage Library, Biodiversity Informatics and beyond….. MBLWHOI Library Cathy Norton Deputy Director, BHL

3. Collaborative Tree of Life distributed semantic Biodiversity Heritage Library ever evolving TED all information Synthesis Center Oh wow! SpeciesBase ClassificationBank Education and Outreach ANTS index MacArthur Foundation taxonomic intelligence modular software communal ownership user defined AvenueA | Razorfish OBIS MBL free visualization images WorkBench sounds phylogeny web 2.0 names-based infrastructure Atlas of Living Australia February 2008 Google Marine Biological Laboratory all species Smithsonian FISHBASE Harvard Field Museum Tree of Life E. O. Wilson aggregation / mashup EDIT ScratchPad widgets MOBOT NHM AMNH NYBotancial Sloan Foundation GBIF llison l NameBank videos National Geographic any classification TDWG/BIS

9. Data Sharing Plant Names Specimens Plant Names Plant Names Specimens Descriptions Plant Names Plant Names Citations

11. Serine Molecule Biodiversity Heritage Library Synthesis Center Field Museum Informatics Marine Biological Laboratory & MOBOT Education & Outreach Smithsonian/Harvard Secretariat Smithsonian

12. This library serves the MBL, WHOI, USGS, NMFS, SEA, WHRC, and other scientific groups in the area. Facing a new dynamic phase NMFS - 1871 MBL - 1888 WHOI - 1930 USGS - 1960 SEA - 1971 WHRC - 1985 Woods Hole Scientific Community

13. Biodiversity Heritage Library

29. Biologia Centrali-American Physical Distribution… Now… you can virtually Parse data, harvest out data, Wealth of information locked on the pages are now liberated!

30. Henry Walter Bates The Naturalist on the River Amazons , 1863 Most literature is in the developed world the Northern Hemisphere Most Biodiversity is in the developing world the Southern Hemisphere

31. Progne subis- Purple Martin Illustrations of the nest and eggs of birds of Ohio , 1879-1886 Library and Laboratory: the Marriage of Research, Data and Taxonomic Literature London, February 2005 Eighty participants from 22 countries gathered to discuss the status and future of access to the taxonomic literature and to propose an agenda for actions that would improve the research environment for taxonomy. The participants were taxonomists; librarians; publishers; representatives of learned and professional societies, private foundations and government agencies; and specialists in information and communications technology. Scalable Mass Scanning Contracts Firewalls Security Loading Docks Trucks 180 mile round trip!

32. Ernest Ingersoll Hand-book to the National Museum … Smithsonian Institution , 1886 Mass Scanning Workflow Bid Lists Pick Lists Packing Lists Serials Management Monographic Management Stickers for Media and carts Rare Books-vaults

33. It began and begat Reptilia and Batrachia . (1885-1902) by Albert C.L.G. Günther Open Access: all content can be reused, repurposed, reformatted, sliced, diced, scraped, harvested, integrated. 2003 Telluride . Encyclopedia of Life Meeting 2005 London. Library and laboratory: the Marriage of Research, Data, and Taxonomic Literature. June 2006 Washington. Organization and Technical Meeting October 2006 St Louis/San Francisco Technical Meeting

34. Reptilia and Batrachia . (1885-1902) by Albert C.L.G. Günther February 2007 MCZ Harvard Organizational Meeting May 2007 Encyclopedia of Life Launch. Washington DC Sept 2007 Missouri Botanical Garden Technical Meeting March 2008 MCZ Harvard Organizational Technical Meeting

35. Collaborators Sanborn Tenney Natural History of Animals . . . 1868. Internet Archive Set up scanning centers in London, New York, Washington, Boston, etc. High-quality, non-destructive Scanning. Image files and text derived from OCR. Internet Archive International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature Open Content Alliance European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) Many more under negotiation Sanborn Tenney Natural History of Animals . . . 1868.

36. Jacob Christian Schäffer Elementa entomologica . . . 1766. BHL Portal http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org Serve image and test files: create volume, Part, piece, metadata; ingest page level Metadata at scanning level; apply Globally Unique Identifiers (GUIDs) for linking to Other taxonomic services.

37. Internet Archive Scribe: Boston

38. Biodiversity Heritage Library

39. Biodiversity Informatics

47. “ All accumulated information of a species is tied to a scientific name, a name that serves as a link between what has been learned in the past and what we today add to the body of knowledge.” ~ Grimaldi & Engel, 2005, Evolution of the Insects

48. Who knowth not the name, knoweth not the subject Linnaeus, 1737, Critica Botanica n 210 .

50. The challenge for contemporary DIGITAL libraries Goal: Use one name to find the content for all names

52. Who is affected by these problems? Libraries Publishers Museums Federal Agencies

53. Serious challenges in federated environments One organism 4 scientific names 4 maps We want one map

54. Reconciliation – linking alternative names for the same organism A query initiated with any name, can be expanded to all names and will unify data associated with each

55. Reuse, don’t rebuild

59. Biodiversity Heritage Library BHL Taxonomic Intelligence Tool Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon Histoire naturelle : générale et particulière (Oiseaux) , 1799-1808

61. FindIT - uBio’s Scientific Name Recognition Algorithm

62. Training and Improving the Algorithm

63. uBioRSS Taxonomically Intelligent RSS Feed Aggregator

64. uBioRSS Taxonomically Intelligent RSS Feed Aggregator

65. MBL WHOI Library – Woods Hole authors’ publications

66. MBL WHOI Library – Woods Hole species publications

67. Taxonomically intelligent scientific text parsing

73. B E Y O N D A N D

74. EMF Biology of Aging Ellison Medical Foundation (EMF) “ Enable the Study of Aging Across the Spectrum of Life” Officially Began January 2008

75. EMF Biology of Aging FEDORA Commons Conditions Locations Organisms Genes

80. Gesner, 1576

81. www.EOL.org

82. Acknowledgments Patrick Leary David Remsen Diane Rielinger David Patterson Neil Sarkar A.W. Mellon Foundation Alfred P. Sloan Foundation John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Internet Archive Christopher Freeland Tom Garnett Dr. James Edwards M artin Kalfatovic Graham Higley BHL & EOL Teams