24 April 2012, California Digital Library

1. : Your 24hr Library
http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/
TECHNOLOGY ADVANCES
California Digital Library
25 Apr 2012
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2. Points we’ll cover
Development Methodology
Usage Stats
APIs
Data Mining
External Connections
iTunes U
DOIs & Mendeley
Data Challenges & Gaming
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3. Methodology:
Evolutionary Prototyping
• Find a problem, code a solution, test evaluate with
staff users, push it out to production
• Example: Fuzzy Searches for bibliographic metadata
• Proceedings Philadelphia
• Darwin 1859
• Proc Soc Zool Lond
Moved into production yesterday
http://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2012/04/new-improved-bhl-search-interface.html

4. YTD Usage stats
Darwin’s Library Launch
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5. BHL APIs
http://biodivlib.wikispaces.com/Developer+Tools+and+API
http://biodivlib.wikispaces.com/Data+Exports
Can address download all of BHL through our APIs
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7. Tropicos TitleID: 648 = BHL TitleID: 64

8. http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/openurl?pid=title:
64volume=10issue=spage=151date=1827
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11. EOL
• 12,800,000 BHL pages linked to EOL
• 65,245,000 occurrences of EOL names in BHL
• Total of 95,900,000 names found Big Data
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12. Pagination Flickr Integration

13. public Flickr view
Direct line to EOL
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17. iTunes U
• Since Launch on Feb 2:
• 50,120 browses
• 1,646 subscriptions
• 6,007 downloads
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18. DOIs
Have assigned 49,000 DOIs to BHL monographs
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19. Purpose of exercise
• Make legacy scientific literature citable via modern systems
• Make 250+ years of scholarly communications available
via new tools
• Assign contemporary identifiers to legacy literature
• DOI
• ISBN
• ISSN
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20. DOI, ISBN, ISSN, ei, ei,…uh oh…
• Ran into trouble with each agency
• BHL isn’t a publisher
• BHL is a consortium, not a
separate legal entity
• BHL doesn’t own all the
content it serves
• “We know we need a policy on
that…”
…and on…and on…for more than
3 years…
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21. Challenge: Title Matching for
Uniqueness
• Only want 1 DOI per intellectual, citable unit
• Differences between cataloging publishing
• Libraries:
datafield tag=245 ind1=1 ind2=4
subfield code=aThe amoebae living in man;/subfield
subfield code=ba zoological monograph,/subfield
subfield code=cby Clifford Dobell./subfield
/datafield
• Publishers:
titleThe amoebae living in man; a zoological monograph/title
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22. Challenge:
Monographs/Series/Monographic Series
• “Report on the Rhynchota collected by the Wollaston Expedition in Dutch New Guinea”
• Published in 1914
• Bound catalogued as a monograph
• Scanned as a monograph
• Assigned a DOI as a monograph in BHL:http://dx.doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.13791
• Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, vol. 20, pt. 11.
• Presented by current publisher of that title as an article
• Assigned a DOI as a journal article:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1912.tb07839x
Guess who provides free access?

23. Challenge: Ownership of Backfiles
• Who owns public domain works?
• Some publishers consider they have ownership of
backfiles for journals they currently publish
• Long running series in natural history
• Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, since 1787
• Those publishers assign DOIs to their current volumes
• BHL assigns DOIs to the public domain works we’ve
digitized
Guess who is upset?

24. BHL
DOIs
in
Use
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26. Gaming
More than Angry Books
https://biodivlib.wikispaces.com/BHL+and+Gaming

28. Email: chris.freeland@mobot.org
Skype: cfreeland27
Twitter: @chrisfreeland
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