2017 BHL Program Director's Report: 11 Years of Growth and Sustainability
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Martin R. Kalfatovic, BHL Program DirectorNational Library Board | Singapore | 17 March 2017
2017 BHL Program Director's Report11 Years of Growth & Sustainability
2016 London
2016 London
2016 London
2016 Singapore
2016 Singapore
2016 Singapore
In the last monthly update (February) BHL’s top contributors were a mix of old and new faces National Agricultural Library: 52,064 pgs Naturalis Biodiversity Center: 43,608 pgs Smithsonian Libraries: 42,470 pgs American Museum of Natural History Library: 34,664 pgs American Association of Zoo Keepers: 16,050 pgs
Growth of Contributors
51,467,214 Pages197,389 Items116,938 Titles89.9Tb Byte Size
Growth of Collections“Physical” Size of BHL
51,467,214 Pages197,389 Items116,938 Titles89.9Tb Byte Size
Growth of Collections“Physical” Size of BHL
51,467,214 Pages197,389 Items116,938 Titles89.9Tb Byte Size
Growth of Collections“Physical” Size of BHL
SustainabilityProgram Director Goals
Recruit and on board new Members and Affiliates Incremental technical changes including full-text searching Explore collaboration with BHL Egypt on technical matters Ensure the success of projects e.g. EABL, Field Book
Project, and Foundations to Actions
SustainabilityProgram Director Goals
Integrated NDSR work into planning for BHL Version 2 Continue to expand content and generate new permissions
for in copyright materials Increase the awareness about BHL and our services,
especially to our primary audiences, scientists, taxonomists and librarians
SustainabilityFinances: Donations
TotalUS$ 17,40050 donors
Secretariat SupportUS$ 13,000
General SupportUS$ 13,000
CASH & IN-KIND CONTRIBUTIONS: CY16
DIRECT STAFF$1,424,792.54
VALUEOF
MEMBER & AFFILIATE CONTRIBUTIONS 2016
OTHER$392,751.28
2015VS
2016
TOTAL IN-KINDCONTRIBUTIONS
2015$1,358,908.20
2016$1,817,543.82
27.26TOTAL MEMBER &
AFFILIATE FTEs WORKING ON BHL
IN 2016
SustainabilityTechnical Team
SustainabilityTechnical Highlights
Working with Dima Mozzherin to incorporate a newly updated GNRD server into BHL. (The GNRD server provides scientific name finding services to BHL.) It is a little too early to say for sure, but it looks like the updated service provides higher quality results. This work is nearly complete.
Initial prototypes of both SOLR and ElasticSearch full-text search installations were created.
SustainabilityTechnical Highlights
The BHL ingest process was updated to recognized and handle Scanning Institution and Rights Holder in the data being brought in from Internet Archive.
Modified the IA harvesting process to ease the inclusion of new contributors, rights holders, and scanning institutions. This should cut down on the number of “UNKNOWN” values that appear in those fields.
Added additional fields to the data harvested from BioStor, including Publisher Name, Publisher Place, OCLC ID, JSTOR ID,and Issue.
SustainabilityTechnical Highlights
Modified the BioStor harvest process to allow changes to Item and Page IDs made in BioStor to be picked up by BHL.
Updated the BioStor harvesting process to read an additional contributor field from the BioStor APIs. This allows BHL to recognize two contributors for an article: 1) the contributor that facilitated the ingest of metadata into BHL (i.e. BioStor), and 2) the institution that actually compiled the metadata.
SustainabilityTechnical Priorities
Full Text Search
Model: Dell PowerEdge Server
OS/Software: ElasticSearch on RedHat Linux
10 core Intel Xeon CPU
128 Gigabytes of RAM About 8 TB disk space
(1.6 TB on high speed SSD) for the Search Index and the OCR Text
Full Text Server Specs
SustainabilitySecretariat Activities
PresentationsMartin R. Kalfatovic
Increasing Access, Promoting Progress: Empowering Global Research through the BHL. Expanding Access to Biodiversity Workshop. Atlanta History Center. Atlanta, GA. 24 January 2017.
The Biodiversity Heritage Library 10 Years and More! TDWG 2016. Centro de Transferencia Tecnológica y Educación Continua (CTEC) San Carlos, Santa Clara, Costa Rica. 7 December 2016.
Increasing Access, Promoting Progress: Empowering Global Research through the BHL. Group of 12 Meeting. Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle. Paris, 2 December 2016.
Botany and the BHL: A Botanical Overview of the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Botany Department Seminar. National Museum of Natural History. Smithsonian Institution. Washington, DC. 15 September 2016.
Enabling Progress in Global Biodiversity Research: The Biodiversity Heritage Library. With Constance Rinaldo. Shanghai International Library Forum 2016. Shanghai, China. 8 July 2016.
SustainabilitySecretariat Activities
PresentationsGrace Costantino
Strategies to Engage: Discovering & Facilitating Engagements around Biodiversity Literature. 38th Annual Society for Scholarly Publishing Conference. Vancouver, British BC, Canada. 2 June 2016.
Free and Open Access to Biodiversity Literature: An Introduction to the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Catholic University’s Institute of Federal Libraries Resources Information Session. Washington, DC. 27 July 2016.
Free and Open Access to Biodiversity Literature: An Introduction to the Biodiversity Heritage Library. MIT Carnegie University of Pretoria Orientation. Washington, DC. 15 September 15 2016.
Literature Resources to Support Food Security Research: An Introduction to the BHL. Scientific Collections International Food Security Symposium. Greenbelt, MD. 19 September 2016.
An Introduction to the Biodiversity Heritage Library. DC Science Librarians Meeting. Washington, DC. 8 November 2016.
SustainabilitySecretariat Activities
PresentationsGrace Costantino
Wait there’s more ...
Presentation: Science as Art: Free Access to Natural History Books and Art in the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Smithsonian Associates: The Beauty of Botanical Illustration Program. Washington, DC. 12 February 2017.
And the 2016 BioBlitz on the National Mall
… And next year we’ll learn about the Earth Optimism Day events (21-23 April 2017 in Washington)
SustainabilitySecretariat Activities
Presentations & MeetingsCarolyn A. Sheffield & Bianca Crowley
Carolyn A. Sheffield
Harnessing biodiversity literature for Natural History collections curation and research--a digital library perspective. With Jirí Frank. SPNHC 2016. Berlin, Germany. 20-25 June 2016.
Bianca Crowley
Library Leaders Forum (Internet Archive) 2016, San Francisco, 26-28 October 2016
SustainabilitySecretariat Activities
Tours and Visits to Washington
National Library Board | May 2016
U of Pretoria | September 2016
SustainabilitySecretariat Activities
Management & LeadershipCarolyn A. Sheffield
Emerging Leadership Development Program
Carolyn graduated from the Smithsonian’s ELDP program in December 2016. The vigorous year-long program is highly selective and it is a reflection on both the candidate and their organization to be selected.
Carolyn with Smithsonian Secretary David Skorton December 2016
SustainabilitySecretariat Activities
Management & LeadershipCarolyn A. Sheffield
Field Notes Project Oversight
Adriana Marroquin as the new Project Manager for the CLIR-funded BHL Field Notes Project. Some of you may recognize her name from work she did a couple of years ago to organize BHL’s Latino Natural History digital exhibition.
Carolyn is the supervisor for the other Secretariat staff as well as Adriana.
Digital Library Federation 2016 Community Capacity Award
Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle
NDSR Residents
Questions
Ichthyologie; ou, Histoire naturelle des poissons : / par Marc Éliéser Bloch.
FIGURE 2Plate: Chaetodon mesoleucus (The Mulatto)Accepted: Chaetodontoplus mesoleucusCommon: Singapore Angelfish, Vermiculated Angelfishhttp://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4787002
Thank You!
@BHLProgDirector