Good Afternoonbiodiversityadvisor.sanbi.org › wp-content › uploads › 2016 › 05 ›...
Transcript of Good Afternoonbiodiversityadvisor.sanbi.org › wp-content › uploads › 2016 › 05 ›...
![Page 1: Good Afternoonbiodiversityadvisor.sanbi.org › wp-content › uploads › 2016 › 05 › 5_M… · improve access to BHC's collection and verify the accuracy of text previously](https://reader033.fdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022060506/5f1ee22c01501d34992dd6b0/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
Good Afternoon
![Page 2: Good Afternoonbiodiversityadvisor.sanbi.org › wp-content › uploads › 2016 › 05 › 5_M… · improve access to BHC's collection and verify the accuracy of text previously](https://reader033.fdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022060506/5f1ee22c01501d34992dd6b0/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
Biodiversity Heritage Library
The cultivation of natural science cannot
be efficiently carried on without reference
to an extensive library
Charles Darwin, et al (1847)
![Page 3: Good Afternoonbiodiversityadvisor.sanbi.org › wp-content › uploads › 2016 › 05 › 5_M… · improve access to BHC's collection and verify the accuracy of text previously](https://reader033.fdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022060506/5f1ee22c01501d34992dd6b0/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
A VIRTUAL LIBRARY
...digital books / volumes about biodiversity and the…
…scientific names contained within those books / volumes.
![Page 4: Good Afternoonbiodiversityadvisor.sanbi.org › wp-content › uploads › 2016 › 05 › 5_M… · improve access to BHC's collection and verify the accuracy of text previously](https://reader033.fdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022060506/5f1ee22c01501d34992dd6b0/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
A GLOBAL PROJECT
Technology Libraries Science
![Page 5: Good Afternoonbiodiversityadvisor.sanbi.org › wp-content › uploads › 2016 › 05 › 5_M… · improve access to BHC's collection and verify the accuracy of text previously](https://reader033.fdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022060506/5f1ee22c01501d34992dd6b0/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
STRUCTURE
• BHL @ 10 in the UK
• 3 committees
• Reporting
• Meetings
![Page 6: Good Afternoonbiodiversityadvisor.sanbi.org › wp-content › uploads › 2016 › 05 › 5_M… · improve access to BHC's collection and verify the accuracy of text previously](https://reader033.fdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022060506/5f1ee22c01501d34992dd6b0/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
COLLABORATIONS
• Extensive
• Open
• Global
• Linked
![Page 7: Good Afternoonbiodiversityadvisor.sanbi.org › wp-content › uploads › 2016 › 05 › 5_M… · improve access to BHC's collection and verify the accuracy of text previously](https://reader033.fdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022060506/5f1ee22c01501d34992dd6b0/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
![Page 8: Good Afternoonbiodiversityadvisor.sanbi.org › wp-content › uploads › 2016 › 05 › 5_M… · improve access to BHC's collection and verify the accuracy of text previously](https://reader033.fdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022060506/5f1ee22c01501d34992dd6b0/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
![Page 9: Good Afternoonbiodiversityadvisor.sanbi.org › wp-content › uploads › 2016 › 05 › 5_M… · improve access to BHC's collection and verify the accuracy of text previously](https://reader033.fdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022060506/5f1ee22c01501d34992dd6b0/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
MOST DOWLOADED MATERIAL
• Linnaeus Specie plantarum
• Invasive alien flora and fauna in South Africa : expertise and bibliography
![Page 10: Good Afternoonbiodiversityadvisor.sanbi.org › wp-content › uploads › 2016 › 05 › 5_M… · improve access to BHC's collection and verify the accuracy of text previously](https://reader033.fdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022060506/5f1ee22c01501d34992dd6b0/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
BHL AFRICA
• BHLA is an open access digital library
for biodiversity literature
• 3 Regions: Western and Central Africa,
Eastern Africa and Southern Africa
• Mission is to improve research
methodology
![Page 11: Good Afternoonbiodiversityadvisor.sanbi.org › wp-content › uploads › 2016 › 05 › 5_M… · improve access to BHC's collection and verify the accuracy of text previously](https://reader033.fdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022060506/5f1ee22c01501d34992dd6b0/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
BHL AFRICA GRANT
• SANBI/JRS grant
• 3 year project
• 12 institutes in Kenya, Uganda
and South Africa
• 4 Main Goals
![Page 12: Good Afternoonbiodiversityadvisor.sanbi.org › wp-content › uploads › 2016 › 05 › 5_M… · improve access to BHC's collection and verify the accuracy of text previously](https://reader033.fdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022060506/5f1ee22c01501d34992dd6b0/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
2. Training workshop in Kenya 2015
![Page 13: Good Afternoonbiodiversityadvisor.sanbi.org › wp-content › uploads › 2016 › 05 › 5_M… · improve access to BHC's collection and verify the accuracy of text previously](https://reader033.fdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022060506/5f1ee22c01501d34992dd6b0/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
CHALLENGES
• Sustainability
– Mixed funding model
• Virtual Organization
• Collaboration
– Communication: language, culture
• Content aggregation
![Page 14: Good Afternoonbiodiversityadvisor.sanbi.org › wp-content › uploads › 2016 › 05 › 5_M… · improve access to BHC's collection and verify the accuracy of text previously](https://reader033.fdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022060506/5f1ee22c01501d34992dd6b0/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
WHAT CAN YOU DO?
• Feedback
• Suggestions
Betrachtungen uber die Farbenpracht der Insekten,. Leipzig,Wilhelm Engelmann,1897. http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42186828