The Biodiversity Heritage Library: Growing from Botanical Origins. Martin R. Kalfatovic. Council on Botanical and Horticulture Libraries Annual Meeting. May 12, 2009. St. Louis, MO.

1. The Biodiversity Heritage Library Growing from Botanical Origins Martin R. Kalfatovic Smithsonian Institution Libraries

4. 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 Botany Libraries, Harvard University Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University Marine Biological Laboratory / Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

5. Scanning Partner Internet Archive Contributor University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign BHL – Europe To be officially launched in May 2009 Discussions underway with China Additional categories of membership under consideration

6. Initial grant from the MacArthur and Sloan Foundations (as part of the Encyclopedia of Life grant)‏ Additional support from parent institutions Supplemental grants in place for specific development (e.g. Moore Foundation for Fedora) Additional grants being actively pursued by BHL and individual members

7. Botanical Members

8. How much is there: Core literature pre-1923: 100 million pages (?) All pre-1923: 120-150 million pages All literature: 280-320 million pages Martin R. Kalfatovic :: Smithsonian Libraries :: Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries :: 12 May 2009

9. More statistics: 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 Martin R. Kalfatovic :: Smithsonian Libraries :: Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries :: 12 May 2009

14. Collections Coordinator on board in February 2009. Bianca Lipscomb, based at the Smithsonian, will coordinate material selection across the BHL and contributing partners Rough Selection Martin R. Kalfatovic :: Smithsonian Libraries :: Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries :: 12 May 2009

15. How to make THIS into 0’s and 1’s Martin R. Kalfatovic :: Smithsonian Libraries :: Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries :: 12 May 2009

16. Selection Tools: Combined Serial list for selection of title to scan to avoid duplication of effort Monographic “de-duping” algorithm OCLC Collection Analysis Martin R. Kalfatovic :: Smithsonian Libraries :: Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries :: 12 May 2009

19. BHL Scanning Martin R. Kalfatovic :: Smithsonian Libraries :: Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries :: 12 May 2009

21. Single Scribe Machine Custom built by the Internet Archive Human operated 3,500 page per shift per day Martin R. Kalfatovic :: Smithsonian Libraries :: Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries :: 12 May 2009

26. The BHL Portal! Martin R. Kalfatovic :: Smithsonian Libraries :: Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries :: 12 May 2009

29. Since we would be covering more than botany, the obvious choice was: ZoBo.org

30. BoZo.org Or we could give plants precedence:

31. Maybe TWO portals were needed: Botanicus.org Faunicaus .org

32. Extinctionary.org

33. Or inspired by the All Species Foundation or Species 2000: Omnibiosis.org Vitalis.org Allogy.org

36. Or more of a 18 th century library LibraryofNaturalCuriosities.org Levinus Vincent Elenchus tabularum, pinacothecarum, atque nonnullorum cimeliorum . . . , 1719

37. But in German … WunderkammerBibliothekKatalogDerLebendenSachen.org Levinus Vincent Elenchus tabularum, pinacothecarum, atque nonnullorum cimeliorum . . . , 1719

38. Or perhaps just stay enigmatic … 42.museum Antonín Frič Fauna der Gaskohle und der Kalksteine… 1893-

39. BiodiversityLibrary.org Mordecai Cubitt Cooke Our reptiles and batrachians; … indigenous to Great Britain , 1893

41. The BHL Portal is not an OPAC! Martin R. Kalfatovic :: Smithsonian Libraries :: Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries :: 12 May 2009

42. Plant Names Specimens Plant Names Plant Names Specimens Descriptions Plant Names Plant Names Citations Martin R. Kalfatovic :: Smithsonian Libraries :: Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries :: 12 May 2009

43. Metadata – failure to serve Martin R. Kalfatovic :: Smithsonian Libraries :: Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries :: 12 May 2009

44. 02761nam 2200469 4500001000700000005001700007008004100024010002300065019001300088035001400101035002300115040006100138049002700199050001500226100004200241245019300283260008300476300001700559504033500576505015400911590010901065590009601174650002601270945002101296945007301317945003101390945004801421945004801469945004701517945007901564945004401643945004601687945004801733945007601781945004401857945005101901945005101952945007102003945009002074945009602164945003102260‑459797‑20050131154400.0‑731129m19021933enk b 000 0 lat c‑ ­aagr03000069 //r582‑ ­a14018362‑ ­aABY6485LB‑ ­a(OCoLC)ocm00751549‑ ­aU.S. Dept. of Agr. Libr.­cRIU­dOCL­dCHS­dSER­dSMI­dWaOLN‑ ­aSMI$­aSMIM­aSMIE­aSMIB‑00­aQL354­b.S5‑1 ­aOscar Mayer & Co.‑10­aPronto pup:­bhot dogs hamburgers/­ca Oscar Mayer and Company.‑ ­aNew Orleans, La. :­bBourbon Street Foods,­c2000. Metadata: Real MARC – Still failure to serve Martin R. Kalfatovic :: Smithsonian Libraries :: Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries :: 12 May 2009

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48. BHL Portal Demo Martin R. Kalfatovic :: Smithsonian Libraries :: Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries :: 12 May 2009

53. The Encyclopedia of Life Serine Molecule Martin R. Kalfatovic :: Smithsonian Libraries :: Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries :: 12 May 2009

54. Encyclopedia of Life Species Pages Built from a variety of new and existing sources Views available for varying levels of expertise from novice to expert Legacy literature a key component of the EOL species pages Martin R. Kalfatovic :: Smithsonian Libraries :: Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries :: 12 May 2009

60. Thanks for sticking around! Martin R. Kalfatovic :: Smithsonian Libraries :: Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries :: 12 May 2009

61. Links BHL Portal http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org Cite http://cite.biodiversitylibrary.org Internet Archive http://www.archive.org Ubio http://www.ubio.org Martin R. Kalfatovic :: Smithsonian Libraries :: Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries :: 12 May 2009