BHLBHL-USBHL-US/UKBHL-ClassicBHL-OriginalBHL-AngloAmerican Project

Chris FreelandTechnical Director, Global BHL

Motivation

1. Take Books from Library Shelves2. Scan Books3. Make Users Happy

• This is not about us, it’s about scientists in developing countries– We have an embarrassment of riches in our

own libraries– We are uniquely poised to produce a global BHL

BHL-US is virtual

Internet Archive:Digitized content / files

MOBOT:Database & web application

MBL:Redundant cluster

Metadata

Content

Tech Work

• More than 83,000 volumes online• More than 2,000 visitors every day

• 1 Technical Director, who isn’t• 1 Full Time Programmer on BHL• 1 Full Time Systems Developer• 1 Full Time Data Analyst• 1 Full Time consultant thru 12/2010

Tech Work Planned

• Enhancements based on user survey– Listen to users– Respond to users

• CiteBank– Community needs, we can provide

• New funding, new opportunities– Darwin’s Library annotations

Human resources available

• Attitude to contractors– We LOVE them, when we hire them

• Students– We LOVE them, when we can get them

• Library staff– We LOVE them.

Funding

• Multiple Streams• MacArthur & Sloan Foundations

– Funding for scanning, starting BHL

• Moore Foundation– Fedora integration– Globalization activities

• IMLS– Special Collections

• Trio Foundation, others

Drivers/criteria for success

• Volumes online• Patrons served• Number of EOL pages with BHL

content• Number of referrers to BHL• Positive feedback• *Not revenue*…hmmm…

Integration with other projects

• Encyclopedia of Life (EOL)• Tropicos• International Plant Names Index

(IPNI)• Internet Archive• BioStor.org• BiblioOdyssey

Dates of major milestones/deliverables

• Dec 31, 2010– Have to have completed:

• Fedora Integration• Citebank production release

– Hard deadline for funding

• June 30, 2012– Completion of core funding

Regional Requirements

• We have always looked at our work as serving a global audience

• Realized we can’t do it alone• Have to make funding organizations

happy• Have to make users happy