bhl presentation to EOL Fellows

1. Thomas Garnett EOL Fellows March 2010 The Biodiversity Heritage Library: Liberating the World’s Biodiversity Literature

9. Agricultural meteorology Physical Anthropology Melioration Crops and climate Ethnology Socio-cultural Anthropology Prehistoric archaeology Biochemistry Fluid dynamics Genetics Cytology Biophysics Plant lore Mineralogy Bioacoustics Bioelectronics Radioecology Biomagnetism Environmental Management Physical geography Toponymy Environmental Policy Biomechanics Geomorphology Geophysics Stratigraphy Geochemistry Sedimentation Geomicrobiology Microscopy Orogeny Petrology Taxidermy Wile animal trade Vivariums, terrariums, aquariums Zoos Agricultural ecology Bioclimatology Biogeomorphology Ecophysiology Restoration ecology Forestry Plant Culture Medical botany / zoology Soil science Economic botany Geobiology Coral Islands, Reefs & Atolls Seismology Continental drift Plate tectonics Hydrology Oceanography Atlases & Gazeteers History of discoveries, Exploration & travel Bioluminescence Phenology Specimen catalogs Collection & preservation Natural History – Directories Scientific drawing & illustration History of Natural sciences Immunology Microbial ecology Virology Natural History – Terminology, Abbrv. Cyanobacteria Topical terms derived from LCSH Paleontology Natural History – Biographies Natural History – Dictionaries & Encyclopedias Animal biochemistry Animal culture Aquaculture Wildlife conservation

10. Core Literature Botany Plant conservation Phytogeography Plant anatomy Plant physiology Plant ecology Spermatophyta, Phanerogams Cryptogams Biological diversity Evolution Phylogenetic relationships Evolutionary genetics Scientific voyages and expeditions Pre-Linnaean works Linnaean works Biodiversity conservation Conservation biology Ecosystem management Endangered species & ecosystems Extinction Classification, Nomenclature Biogeography Zoology/Botany--Morphology Zoology/Botany--Anatomy Zoology/Botany--Embryology Zoology/Botany--Reproduction Zoology/Botany--Geographical distribution Classification, systematics and taxonomy Zoology Invertebrates Chordates Vertebrates Animal Behavior

15. Scanning = human work

16. Scan & Store: Internet Archive Scanning on Scribes Storage in Petaboxes

18. Referrers: 1 Jan 08 – 31 Jan 10 Jan 1, 2008 – Jan 31, 2010

20. Name Finding via TaxonFinder

21. Image from Scanner Converted to text OCR via OC OCR OCR Name finding via TaxonFinder Extract names Submit to NameBank SOAP response Name Finding in action with Taxonomic Intelligence…

22. OCR error rate for names only Top OCR errors Of the 3,003 names, 1,056 were incorrectly transcribed by OCR. 1 Insert Space 8 n->v 2 Omit Space 9 l->i 3 e->c 10 r->i 4 u->I 11 u->ii 5 u->n 12 h->l 6 i->l 13 h->ii 7 c->e 14 e->o 35.16%

25. http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/name/Physeter_catodon

30. PDF Generation Stats

33. http://www.citebank.org

34. http://citebank.org/search

35. http://citebank.org/node/47423

38. Services: OpenURL http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/openurl? pid=title:3934&volume=14&issue=&spage=301&date=1879 http://www.tropicos.org/Name/1200408

40. Services: OpenURL Results