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Suzanne Pilsk Presentation to SIL Board 2012
1. Partnering In Research:
The Smithsonian Libraries,
Index Animalium
&
Taxonomic Literature, 2nd Ed
Suzanne C. Pilsk
Metadata Librarian
Smithsonian Libraries
5. Smithsonian Institution Libraries
History of Science and Technology
Latino History and Culture
Materials Research
Modern and Contemporary Art
Museology
African Art Native American History and Culture
African American History and Culture Natural History
Anthropology Postal History
American Art Tropical Biology
American History Trade Literature
Asian and Middle Eastern Art World’s Fair Ephemera
Aviation history and Space Flight
Design and Decorative Arts
Environmental Management and
Ecology
6. Support for the Sciences
Taxonomic Nomenclature
Identifying and Naming of Species
New, Old, Re-name, Misspellings, Synonyms,
Homonyms, Splits, Joins, ….
Authorship: Who, When, Former …
Rules:
International Code of Botanical Nomenclature
International Code of Zoological Nomenclature
International Code of Nomenclature of Bacteria
9. Justification of NH Libraries!
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.
Charles Davies Sherborn, Epilogue to Index Animalium, March 1922
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12. “Veni, vidi, vici – and now history:
Botany’s new rules allow English
to replace Latin in Describing Species”
Washington Post 19 January 2012
29. Library’s Catalog:
The zoological miscellany : being descriptions
of new, or interesting animals / by William Elford Leach
Sherborn’s Bibliography:
Zoological Miscellany (Leach’s). 3 vols. 8vo. Lond. 1814-17.
30. Index Citation Species Name to Page
Database Parsing To Find Pieces and Parts
ID Image ID Page Name & reference
"362382","SIL34_02_24_0193","6101","splendens Turdus, W. E. Leach, Zool. Miscell. II. 1815, 30.”
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36. Taxonomic Literature 2nd Edition
Taxonomic Literature: A selective guide to
botanical publications and
collections with dates,
commentaries and types (second
edition)
15 volumes guide to the literature of
systematic botany published
between 1753 and 1940
Organized by author ~ Citation for the author’s
surname
Numbered entries of the author’s publications ~
Suggested short-title & abbreviation of short-title for
use in taxonomic publications
TL2 is a standard by which author’s names and titles
should be abbreviated
37. Digitizing The Entire Title:
Scope of Work
• Approximately 11, 500
scanned pages
• Average of 3,300 characters
per page
• Approximately 44, 000 author
entries
• Image files approx. 9 GB in
size
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44. ★ Linked Open Data – 5 Stars ★
★ Available on the web (whatever
format), but with an open licence
★★ Available as machine-readable
structured data (e.g. excel instead of • Shareable
image scan of a table)
★★★ as (2) plus non-proprietary • Extensible
format (e.g. CSV instead of excel)
★★★★ All the above plus, Use open • Re-Usable
standards from W3C (RDF and
SPARQL) to identify things, so that • International
people can point at your stuff
★★★★★ All the above, plus: Link
your data to other people’s data to
provide context
46. Linked Open Data
Subject Predicate Object
Subject – A “thing” with a unique identifier
Johan Wilhelm Palmstruch
TL2 id <Palmstr>
Predicate – A “verb” with a unique identifier
Illustrated
RDA <Illustrator>
Object – A “thing” with a unique identifier
Svensk Botanik
TL2 id <7247>
47. Triple Stores
Johan Wilhelm Palmstruch
Illustrated
Svensk Botanik
TL2 BOTid <Palmstr> TL2 BKid <7247>
RDA <Illustrator> RDA <Illustrator>
TL2 BKid<7247> TL2 BOTid <Palmstr>
48. TL2: Linked Open Data
Botanists Pages
Triple Stores of
Name relationship to Books
Name relationship to Standard Abbreviation
Book Pages
Triple Stores of
Book relationship to Name
Book relationship to TL2 Numbering
Book relationship to Standard Abbreviation
60. Life and Literature Conference 2011
Compelling Use Cases for Digitization
Including cool and unexpected
Once digitized, text is just text
Significant amount not discoverable
“So in not fully investigating the
product of the digital projects, are we
selling scholarship short? What
scholarship in the digital age means?
And what are the real tools we need
to do it?” Elycia Wallis, Museum Victoria
61. Contact information: PilskS@si.edu
Thanks To Many
• Joel Richard • Gilbert Borrego
• Martin Kalfatovic • Carolyn Sheffield
• Grace Costantino • Bianca Crowley
• Courtney Shaw • Becky Morin
• Keri Thompson • Mike Lichtenburg
• Robin Everly • David Remsen
• Interns too numerous to • Patrick Leary
name • Chris Freeland
• Volunteers too numerous to • Rod Page
name
62. Interesting Sources
Index Animalium www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/indexanimalium
Taxonomic Literature (3) www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/tl-2
Smithsonian Institution Libraries Life and Literature Conference
www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/tl-2 http://www.lifeandliterature.org/
Connecting Content Smithsonian Institution
research.calacademy.org/library/fieldnotes www.si.edu/
The Field Book Project Biodiversity Heritage Library
www.mnh.si.edu/rc/fieldbooks/index.html www.biodiversitylibrary.org/
Linked Open Data Internet Archive
linkeddata.org/ www.archive.org/
