Presentation for the Office of Strategic Initiatives (November 8, 2006) with Suzanne C. Pilsk

1. Biodiversity Heritage Library: A Conversation About A Collaborative Digitization Project Suzanne C. Pilsk Martin R. Kalfatovic Smithsonian Institution Libraries

5. Taxonomic Literature The cited half-life of publications in taxonomy is longer than in any other scientific discipline * * * The decay rate is longer than in any scientific discipline - Macro-economic case for open access, Tom Moritz

7. Taxonomic Impediment Agatea violaris Type specimen from the U.S. National Herbarium (Smithsonian Institution) collected by the United States Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842

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11. Taxonomic Impediment Biologia Centrali-Americana. Edited by Frederick Ducane Godman and Osbert Salvin. London : Pub. for the editors by R. H. Porter, 1879-1915

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13. Digital Divide? Vishwas Chavan travels a lot. An informatician based at the National Chemical Laboratory in Pune, India, he collects data on what types of animal live where in India to enter into a biodiversity database … Much of the information Chavan seeks is in old, out-of-print tomes … To find them, Chavan has spent years trailing around libraries. He dreams of the day when books such as these are scanned and made available as digital files on the Internet. “ Science in the Web Age: The Real Death of Print” by Andreas von Bubnoff Nature 438, 550-552 1 December 2005

14. Encyclopedia of Life … imagine for a moment that all the diversity of the world were finally revealed and then described, say one page to a species. The description would contain the scientific name, a photograph or drawing, a brief diagnosis, and information of where the species if found. If published in conventional book form … this Great Encyclopedia of Life would occupy 60 meters of library shelf per million species … 100 million species of organisms … would extend through 6 kilometers of shelving … E.O. Wilson (1992 )

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23. Biodiversity Heritage Library Mandates: Open Access: all content can be reused, repurposed, reformatted, sliced, diced, scraped, and ???

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57. Taxonomic Intelligence Vernacular terms Link outs

58. Taxonomic Intelligence Generated Taxa Lists

60. Biodiversity Heritage Library Jacob Christian Schäffer Elementa entomologica . . . 1766. Metadata Repository Store all bibliographic metadata for the member libraries; create volume, part, piece metadata; ingest page level metadata at scanning level for the creation of page level Globally Unique Identifiers (GUIDs) for linking to other taxonomic services

75. BHL Metadata Repository Internet Archive BHL MR BHL Public Interface Taxonomic Web Services e.g. CBOL, GBIF, ITIS, GenBank, INOTAXA documents, etc. BHL MR BHL MR

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81. Biodiversity Heritage Library: A Conversation About A Collaborative Digitization Project Suzanne C. Pilsk Martin R. Kalfatovic Smithsonian Institution Libraries Thanks to the following for input/content: Chris Freeland (Missouri Botanical Garden) Neil Thomson (Natural History Museum, London) Anna Weitzman (National Museum of Natural History) Chris Lyal (Natural History Museum, London) Scott Miller (Smithsonian Institution)