Digital Libraries for Science: Botanicus and the Biodiversity Heritage Library

Digital Libraries for Science: Botanicus & Biodiversity Heritage Library Chris Freeland Director of Bioinformatics, Missouri Botanical Garden Technical Director, BHL

Why scan old books? 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

Workflow Selection Preparation Post Production (Re)publication Digitization Conservation

Selection process Title Protologues 5,455 Das Pflanzenreich … … 5,736 Species Plantarum 5,853 Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 7,578 Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis 7,599 Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany 9,833 Flora Brasiliensis 11,757 Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 12,695 Linnaea 13,548 Revisio Generum Plantarum 15,052 Botanische Jahrbucher fur Systematik…

Digitization process 6 Full time scanning technicians 3 Indus 5002 book scanners 1 Kodak i280 Sheet feed scanner

Demonstration: Connecting a name with its protologue

Citation resolver Vol. Title Part Page Year

How we make the connections ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Botanicus Progress To Date: ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Freely available at www.botanicus.org

Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org

BHL Institutions ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Scanning Operations ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Locations of BHL/IA Scanning Centers

BHL Progress To Date: ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Freely available at www.biodiversitylibrary.org

Open Access Literature Flora de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Publisher: Buenos Aires :M. Biedma è Hijo,1905. PDF OCR XML JP2

Raw Image Converted to text via OCR Name finding via TaxonFinder Extract names Submit to NameBank SOAP response Name Finding in action with Taxonomic Intelligence…

BHL Name Finding Stats to date * ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],*17 November 2008

BHL & JSTOR ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

How can BHL enrich LAPI? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Contact ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

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