Virtualisation of literature research throughthe Biodiversity Heritage Library for Europe

Henning ScholzMuseum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany

Charles Darwin et al. 1847

The cultivation of natural science cannot be efficiently carried on without reference to an extensive library.

Ten years ago vs. today

Virtual libraries (online)

Digital libraries (online)

Download/print books & articles

E-Journals & Open Access

PDF & Email

OPAC, library catalogues

Libraries (travel)

Copy books & articles

Printed material

Reprints & snail mail

BHL

http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/

BHL 2007

SIL, MOBOT, AMNH, Harvard Botany Library, MCZ, MBL/WHOI, Field Museum, NYBG

NHM, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew

BHL today

BHL-Europe

http://www.bhl-europe.eu

Vision and mission

European biodiversity knowledge freely available globally to everyone.

BHL-Europe mission statement Mobilising and preserving digital European biodiversity heritage literature and facilitating the open access to this literature through a multilingual community portal, the Global References Index to Biodiversity, and Europeana.

BHL-Europe vision statement

(In contrast to BHL, BHL-Europe is not funded to digitise)

BHL-Europe organisation

BHL-Europe organisation

BHL-Europe server

BHL-Europe access routes

BHL-Europe Portal

Name finding

Scientific namesScientific names Taxon Finder (uBio)Taxon Finder (uBio)

Common names Catalogue of Life

Author names Virtual International Authority File

Species names Catalogue of Life

Serial names Zeitschriftendatenbank

Virtual exhibition

GRIB

Bibliographic database (union catalogue of natural history institutions with content management and deduplication functionalities).

Global References Index to Biodiversity (http://grib.gbv.de)

Collaboration: European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy (EDIT), Head office of the Common Library Network GBV (VZG)

User: Scientist, taxonomist, librarian

http://grib.gbv.de

Europeana

• >15 million objects

• Mona Lisa to Charles Darwin

• Texts, images, videos, sounds

• 96,595 BHL-Europe objects

• Nine BHL-Europe partners

BHL-Global

BHL-Global

Portals

Paläontologische Gesellschaft

You are the user…

…vivid discussions

…future developments

…hands on training

Dr. Henning Scholz Project Coordinator BHL-Europe

Museum für Naturkunde Invalidenstraße 43 D-10115 Berlin

Email: henning.scholz@mfn-berlin.de

http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org http://www.bhl-europe.eu

…Questions