1. The Encyclopedia of Life, BioDiversity Heritage Library, Biodiversity Informatics MBLWHOI Library Cathy Norton Deputy Director, BHL Massachusetts Library Association May 7, 2008

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

6. This library serves the all of the scientific institutions in Woods Hole and other scientific groups in the area. The Library is facing a new dynamic phase

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

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

23. 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!

24. Internet Archive Scribe: Boston

25. 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

26. 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.

27. Biodiversity Heritage Library

28. Biodiverstiy Informatics

29. “ 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

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

32. The challenge for contemporary DIGITAL libraries Goal: Use one name to find the content for all names related to “that” species.

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

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

36. Reuse, don’t rebuild

40. uBio Programmers BHL Taxonomic Intelligence Tool Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon Histoire naturelle : générale et particulière (Oiseaux) , 1799-1808

42. Training and Improving the Algorithm

43. uBioRSS Taxonomically Intelligent RSS Feed Aggregator

44. uBioRSS Taxonomically Intelligent RSS Feed Aggregator

45. MBL WHOI Library – Woods Hole authors’ publications

46. MBL WHOI Library – Woods Hole species publications

48. Taxonomically intelligent scientific text parsing

54. Acknowledgments Catherine Norton 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 M artin Kalfatovic Graham Higley BHL & EOL Teams

55. www.biodiversitylibrary.org www.eol.org www.ubio.org