Growing the BHL

BHL Collections Coordinator Bianca Crowley

April 2014 CBHL

http://biodiversitylibrary.org

Consortium Participants • Academy of Natural Sciences • American Museum of Natural History • California Academy of Sciences Library • Cornell University Library •  Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology • e Field Museum • Harvard University Botany Libraries •  Library of Congress • Marine Biological Laboratory and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Library • Missouri Botanical Garden Library • National Library Board (Singapore) • Natural History Museum, LA County • Natural History Museum, London • e New York Botanical Garden • Royal Botanic Garden, Kew •  Smithsonian Libraries • University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign • United States Geological Survey Libraries • Washington University of St. Louis

Growing organization

•  Vision : Inspiring discovery through free access to biodiversity knowledge.

• Mission : The Biodiversity Heritage Library works collaboratively to make biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community.  

Growing organization: Goals 1.  Relevant Content : Build and maintain the BHL as the largest reliable,

reputable, and responsive repository of biodiversity literature and archival materials.

2.  Tools and Services : Develop services and tools which facilitate discovery and improve research efficiency of BHL content.

3.  User Engagement : Increase global awareness about the BHL through outreach, learning and education, and branding through engagement and collaboration with existing and new user communities.

4.  Membership and Partnerships : Grow BHL consortia membership and partnerships while fostering cross-institutional collaboration that continues to serve as a model for digital library development.

5.  Financial Sustainability : Ensure sustainability and relevance by being flexible, adaptable, and financially sound while the content and services remain openly and freely available.  

Growing consortium

•  4 New “Gardeners” – Washington University Library (St. Louis, MO)

– National Library Board Singapore – Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History

Research Library

– University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, University Library

Growing consortium

•  BHL Central “Tract” – 16 institutions in the United States

– 2 institutions in the United Kingdom – 1 institution in Singapore – Verses global “plots” elsewhere in Africa, Australia,

Brazil, China, Egypt, Europe

New Membership Structure

Members  •  $10K annual dues •  Guide BHL decision making •  Funding for digitization •  Access to specialized software

and technical support •  Opportunities to participate in

technical development •  Collaborative fund-raising

opportunities •  Possible travel support •  Achieving economy of scale

for access to, and storage of, digital collections in a safe repository

Affiliates  •  No annual dues •  Participation in an active,

award-winning collaborative program that is making biodiversity literature freely available to the world

•  Opportunity to provide advice about the growth and development of the BHL Program

•  Discounts on service fees for content ingest, access and technical assistance

Growing Collections

•  76,000+ titles •  137,000+ volumes •  43 million+ pages!

BHL, BHL… How does your garden grow?

•  Digi$za$on  :  BHL  consor+um  libraries  send  books  to  the  Internet  Archive  for  scanning  

•  Aggrega$on  :  Harves+ng  non-­‐BHL  consor+um  materials  from  Internet  Archive  corpus  based  on  criteria  of  subject  headings  and  call  numbers  

•  Aggrega$on  Experiment  :  indexing  metadata  for  content  available  on  external  websites  =  3rd  party  links    

3rd Party Links

©  Copyright  Status   Status  language   License  

Permissions  (1923  in-­‐copyright  pubs)  

In  copyright.  Digi+zed  with  the  permission  of  the  rights  holder.  

Crea+ve  Commons  AOribu+on,  Non-­‐Commercial,  Share-­‐Alike  (CC-­‐BY-­‐NC-­‐SA  

Due  Diligence  (1923-­‐77  US  pubs)  

No  known  copyright  restric+ons  as  determined  by  scanning  ins+tu+on.  

NA  

Public  Domain  (pre-­‐1923)  

Public  domain.  The  BHL  considers  that  this  work  is  no  longer  under  copyright  protec+on.  

NA  

Growing Website: en

Growing Website: Now

Pruning, Weeding, De-bugging General  feedback  form   Scan  request  form  

http://biodiversitylibrary.org/contact

Issue Tracking System

Sowing for the future

•  “Macaw” software for loading content scanned outside our standard workflow

•  Full Text Search! •  Innovative projects: – Purposeful Gaming – Art of Life

– Biodiversity Library Exhibitions – Digging into Data – Field notebooks

Questions?

Thank you! crowleyb@si.edu

•  Open access •  Open data •  Deliver content where users are already

working –  Via other biodiversity websites & taxonomic

resources –  Via social media

•  Involve users in collection & technical development

…not just another silo

Issue Tracking Software

Vols.  6,  8,  10   Vols.  

1-­‐5  

Vols.  7,  9,  11-­‐21  

Communicate & Document Regularly

Standard Digitization Work"ow

Sowing for the future: “Macaw”

Metadata Collection and Work"ow System