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Doug Holland, Library Director, Missouri Botanical GardenTrish Rose-Sandler, Data Project Coordinator, Missouri Botanical Garden
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Missouri Library Association conference, St Louis MO
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What is BHL?
• A consortium of natural history, botanical libraries and research institutions
• An open access digital repository for historic biodiversity literature
• An open data repository of taxonomic names and bibliographic information
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Member Institutions• Academy of Natural Sciences Library and
Archives• American Museum of Natural History Library • California Academy of Sciences Library• Cornell University Library • The Field Museum Library• Harvard University Botany Libraries • Harvard University, Ernst Mayr Library of the
Museum of Comparative Zoology • Library of Congress • Marine Biological Laboratory / Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institution Library• Missouri Botanical Garden Library• Natural History Museum, London, Library &
Archives• The New York Botanical Garden • Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Library & Archives• Smithsonian Institution Libraries • United States Geological Survey Libraries
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What is Art of Life?
• Full title - The Art of Life: Data Mining and Crowdsourcing the Identification and Description of Natural History Illustrations from the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL)
• Grant given to Missouri Botanical Garden in St Louis
• Funded by National Endowment for the Humanities
• Runs May 2012-April 2014
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What is open content?1. Artists/Designers2. Biologists/Taxonomists/
“A piece of data or content is open if anyone is free to use, reuse, and redistribute it — subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and/or share-alike.”
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What are some content types ripe for opening up?
Bibliographic records
Vocabularies
Content files • Literature published before 1923 (public domain)
• Primary source materials • manuscripts• photographs • maps• artifacts• audio and video recordings• oral histories• postcards• posters
• Local history – Genealogical collections
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Examples of open content – bibliographic recordst/
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Examples of open content – bibliographic recordst/
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Examples of open content – vocabularies/
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Examples of open content – vocabularies/
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Examples of open content – primary resources/
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Examples of open content – primary resources/
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Why is open content important to cultural heritage institutions?
“it is now the mark—and social responsibility—of world-class institutions to develop and share free cultural and educational resources.”
Initiative to building a global cultural commons for everyone to use, access and enjoy.
Getty holds “the conviction that understanding art makes the world a better place, and sharing our digital resources is the natural extension of that belief. “
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How to open your dataOne click downloads
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How to open your data
Bulk dataBHL provides metadata & content via
• Export files• OAI-PMH• APIs• OpenURL
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How to open your data Share with other portals
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How to open your data Share with other portals
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Copyright and LicensingMake public domain content available – make it clear its copyright status=public domain.
For copyrighted content if you are the copyright holder, dedicate it to the public domain or license content as openly as possible
CCOCC-BYCC-BY-SACC-BY-NC
PDDLODC-ByODC-ODbL
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Open Content and Copyright
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Examples of re-use of BHL Open Content
iTunes U
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Scholarly and commercial publications
And the “price” of open content.
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Artists/Graphic DesignersArtists/Graphic DesignersNonprofit fund raising
Natural Histories: Extraordinary Rare Book Selections from the American Museum of Natural History
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Citizen scientists/enthusiasts
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http://www.thisoldhouse.com/toh/photos/0,,20612661_21187249,00.html
Citizen scientists/enthusiasts
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Educators/OutreachEducators
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Henry Curtis-Williams@All Rights Reservedhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/67312941@N03/8504225098/in/photostream/
Artists/Graphic DesignersArtists/Graphic Designers
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Artists/Graphic Designers
http://www.missmoss.co.za/2013/06/24/biodiversity-heritage-library/
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Artists/Graphic DesignersArtists/Graphic Designers
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Commentary on Miss Moss blog
Artists/Graphic DesignersArtists/Graphic Designers
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Artists/Graphic DesignersArtists/Graphic Designers
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Artists/Graphic DesignersArtists/Graphic Designers
Public Art in Denver Light Rail StationsCreated by artist Nancy O’Neil
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Benefits to open content?• Fulfills public mission of libraries
• Promotes your collection to new audiences
• Stimulates creative reuse
• Increases discoverability
• Enables Data enrichment
• Less taxing on staff resources
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Further information about open content and libraries
• Open Bibliographic Data Guide http://obd.jisc.ac.uk/
• OpenGLAM http://openglam.org/
• LODLAM http://lodlam.net/