This document discusses the global reach and collaborations of the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL). It notes that BHL works to make biodiversity literature openly available worldwide through activities like content digitization and partnerships. BHL has various regional nodes that contribute literature from their areas, including nodes in Africa, Australia, China, Egypt, Europe, Mexico, and Singapore. BHL collaborates with organizations like the Internet Archive, the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, and various research institutions to expand its global network and share expertise. The document provides statistics on page counts and user access from different countries to illustrate BHL's global impact.
2. Por se global?
• Biodiversity is global
• The literature is global
– Repatriation
– Accessibility of local information
• “The BHL works collaboratively to make biodiversity
literature openly available to the world”
• Leverage global talent, resources & content
• Collaborations on funding & technological
advancements
• Developing standards
6. Global Biodiversity Information Facility
• BHL joined as Associate Participant
• GBIF provides open data infrastructure for sharing
biodiversity data
• GBIF now links to BHL bibliographies
• This association allows sharing of expertise,
collaboration with new & similar communities
11. BHL Africa
• $150,000 Award from JRS Biodiversity Foundation
to facilitate the growth of BHL Africa: content,
training & outreach
• Joined BHL as Affiliate
• Content: 1557 pages
A plan for phylogenetic studies of Southern
African reptiles : proceedings of a workshop held
at Kirstenbosch, February 2006. By Bill Branch.
SANBI, Pretoria
Ichthyological papers 1931-1943 by J.L.B.
Smith. 1969. Rhodes University
12. BHL Australia
• Host of 2014 Annual Global meeting
• Google Cultural Index Exhibits: The Art of Science
1700-1850 & more
• Content: >130,000 pages
The Birds of Australia by Gracius
Broinowski. 1890-91. Stuart &
Co. Melbourne
13. BHL China
• Content: 324,315 pages
an hui sheng ye sheng zhi wu zong he
li yong wei yuan hui bian Some Chinese vertebrates. 1912. Glover
Allen et al. Memoirs of the Museum of
Comparative Zoology, v. 40 (4).
14. BHL Egypt
• Working on BHL Egypt portal
• New logo in draft form
• Have a partial copy of BHL data
15. BHL Europe
• Content harmonization with Internet Archive in
process
–574 pages
• CETAF/EU BON funding opportunities; promotion
• Draft strategy under review
• Training in Exhibition Tool
16. BHL Mexico
• Newest dual global node & BHL member!
• Preparing content for BHL
• 10 new collaborations for BHL Mexico
17. BHL SciELO
• Host of Annual 2015 Global meeting: May 6-8
• Content: 17,866 articles plus 11,526 pages of books
A defesa contra o ophidismo by
Vital Brazil 1911
A natural history of spiders and others
curious insects by Eleazar Albin. 1736.
GB: John Tilly
18. BHL Singapore
• Extensive guidance on MOU/
by-laws
• Global node & BHL Member
• Content: 15,467 pages
The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and
the bird of paradise : a narrative of travel, with studies
of man and nature by Alfred Russel Wallace 1874
Malayan fishes by Charleton Maxwell. 1921.
Singapore Methodist Pub. House
Image from Louis Agassiz’s Thayer Expedition to Brazil 1865-1866, Jacques Burkhardt
Gibbon Musei Leveriani explicatio, anglica et latina [London] :Impensis Jacobi Parkinson,1792-1796.
Kanga: Il gabinetto del giovane naturalista /.Milano :Presso Omobono Manini,1825-1826..
Thylacine: Atlas of zoologie
BHL Exibition tool, Portal interface collab with BHL Australia
Metadata
digitization
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CONNIE PARTNERSHIPS AND COLLABORATIONS ACROSS THE GLOBE
BHL is an EXTENSIVE and growing repository of biodiversity literature. The content includes literature dating back to the 15th century, current copyrighted material and open access links to born digital content that cannot currently be ingested (SciELO, Pensoft Press, RJB))
BHL is fully open access under creative commons license.
BHL has global coverage and is a global virtual organization
BHL links to other regional and global initiatives some are illustrated on the slide also Cetaf/GBIF. First funded through grants received by the Encyclopedia of Life. From the beginning we have Partner with the Internet Archive for storage and scanning.
The original driver for setting up BHL was to support predominantly scientists and researchers studying the diversity of life and assist in resolving the taxonomic impediment.
RECENTly joined
… and Europeana
We put the records into other discovery methods, like DPLA…DPLA harvests BHL metadata
South African Institute of Aquatic Biodiversity: 753 pages
South African National Biodiversity Instiitute 472 pages
Nature Kenya, East African Natural History Society 332 pages, 607 article
Awarded to SANBI, this new grant will grow BHLA through assessment, collaboration, and digitization, resulting in a wealth of collections unique to African institutions being added to BHL. This new JRS support will allow BHLA to:
Conduct outreach to expand active BHLA participation through engagement with current members and recruitment of new participants
Improve communications and host workshops and trainings for 13 BHLA member institutions
Analyze the existing capacity for participation and content aggregation
Stabilize the governance of the organization and infrastructure through sustainability planning
In order to accomplish these objectives, Anne-Lise Fourie, Assistant Director of SANBI Libraries, Chair of BHLA and PI on the JRS Africa project, plans to survey current members and potential partners and conduct site visits to Kenya and Uganda to establish capacities and collection profiles. This information will help inform future trainings regarding identification of unique content for inclusion in BHL and the selection of digitization service providers.
We are also pleased to announce that BHL Africa has joined BHL as an Affiliate, following the example of BHL Singapore and BHL Mexico, which participate in BHL both as autonomous regional nodes and Members of the BHL. As an Affiliate, BHLA may participate in BHL committees, task forces, and working groups and will collaborate more extensively within the global BHL community. See a list of current BHL Members and Affiliates here.
Digitized books deposited to BH; L
As of May 1, 2015 498 vols, 129,842 pages (Museum Vic: 78,045; 326)
996 volumes
As of May 1, 2015
Serve some bhl data through DAR
EU BON: European Biodiversity Observation Network (citizen science)
CETAF: Consortium of European Taxonomic facilities
Australia now and Smithsonian previously for
Contributions to morphometrics / Edited by Leslie F. Marcus, Elisa Bello, Antonio Garcia-Valdecasas. 1993
Based in conabio
Ensayo ornitologico de los troquilideos ó colibries de Mexico..
Mexico,I Escalante,1875
Arachnida Araneidea. In Biologia Centrali Americana Vol I by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge. 1895.
March: Content: 17,684 articles plus 8533 pages of books
May on slide
27 volumes (march 2015)
Update 48 vol as of May 1, 2015
March 31-Apr 30, 2015
Total: 181,353
1. US: 46,985 sessions
2. UK: 10,635
3.Germany: 10,446
4. Brazil: 8,518
7. Australia: 5,852
9. Mexico: 4,965
16. China: 2,450
21. Czech Republic: 1,782
ANNUAL: China #15, South Africa #26, Czech Republic #24, Singapore #38,
ANNUAL Total: 1,565,405; US, UK, Germany, India, Brazil, France, Australia, Canada, Italy, Spain, Mexico, Japan, Netherlands, Russia, China #15, South Africa #26, Czech Republic #24, Singapore #38
Note that several European countries are in the top 35, if you add them all up, BHL Europe: 394,745
Australia: 47,965
Mexico: 39,122
China 23,034
CR: 13,098
South Africa: 11,054
Singapore: 6,961
Egypt: 3,954