The Biodiversity Heritage LibraryEOL Team Report: November 2012

Martin R. Kalfatovic | EOL Team Meeting29 November 2012 | Museum of Comparative Zoology | Cambridge, MA

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

Charles Darwin, et al (1847)

The Wherefore of BHL

Priority Goals and ActivitiesYear 6

39,859,323 pages109,441 items57,417 titles

28 November 2012

40 m + pages115 k + items60 k + titles

2013

Cornell ingest | Dec 201114,45814,458

Items Added: Past 12 Months

Average: 1,204 / month

User Statistics: 2007 - 2012Visitors: 3,628,088Page Views: 17,604,395New vs. Returning: 48.88% vs. 50.12%

2007

2012112,584 visitors | March 2012

233 countriesUsers in 233 Countries

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Increase agreements with publishers of in copyright materials

(up from ~250)

Explore risk management of1923-1961 imprints

Opportunities for Year 6

The Biodiversity Heritage Library: 2006

2,567,169 total views | 45,222 images (9/2012) | 50K+

Experiment with taxonomic markup

Smithsonian Contributions and Studies SeriesCollaboration with Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press1,000+ titles; 100,000 pages

Trish Rose-Sandler, Missouri Botanical GardenDLF Forum 2012 Denver CO Art of Life project

Title Stictospiza formosa

Type Paintings

Date Publication: 1898

Agent Author: Arthur G. Butler (1844-1925)Illustrator: F.W. Frohawk (1861-1946)

Description A pair of finches with green and yellow bodies resting on reeds

Subjects Scientific name: Amandava formosa (Latham, 1790) Vernacular Name: Green Avadavat or Green MuniaAccepted Name: Amandava formosa (Latham, 1790) Birds, finches

Inscriptions bottom center: Green Amaduvade Waxbill (Stictospiza formosa)

SourceButler, Arthur Gardiner. Foreign finches in captivity. Hull and London: Brumby and Clarke, limited,1889 (2nd edition). This image comes from the Biodiversity Heritage Library, and is available online at biodiversitylibrary.org/page/17195895

Rights Public domain

Example of illustration described using Art of Life schema

Not Just ...

233 countriesUsers in 233 Countries

June 2012

Over 30 librarians, scientists, informaticians gathered in Cape Town, South Africa to start the formation of the BHL Africa node; funded by JRS Foundation

Global BHL Steering CommitteeAugust 2011 Vice Chair SecretaryChair

Threats for Years 7-8

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The Congress shall have Power ... To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors

the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries. U.S. Code Title 17. Chapter 1. Section 109

But most of the time I am!

Unknown Unknowns

Opportunities for Years 7-8

Robust Governance Structure

Executive Committee - Chair, Vice-Chair, Secretary - Program Director (ex officio) - Technical Director (ex officio)

Steering Committee - Direct monetary support of BHL central activities - 10 institutions (subset of the Institutional Council)

Institutional Council - Interested institutions who sign participation agreement- 14 institutions

BHL Executive Committee, 2011-Nancy Gwinn | Connie Rinaldo | Susan Fraser

Secretariat and Technical StaffAugust 2011Program Director

Program ManagerCollections Coordinator

Technical DirectorProgrammerData Analyst

BHL Member Participation Staff FTE

16.22 FTE from the 14member institutions(does not include Secretariat or Technical staff)

In-kind Participation Contributions

Staff

Other

Scanning

Internal Grants

External Grants

$980K

$470K

$923K

$980K

$422K

$505K

BHL Funding

Steering Committee duesMacArthur carryover (partly restricted)JRS and Lounsbery grants (meetings)Moore, NSF, NEH grants (restricted)DonationsOther grants (restricted)Member subvention (restricted)Smithsonian Federal funds (restricted)

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More Outreach

“Thank you much for your help. It is so useful as I am right now working on the fishes of Ganges. Moreover it is so great that the library provides classic literature on fishes and it was a dream to me [when] I started my taxonomy ten years back. It is marvellous [what] you did for us which are badly in need of old literature. Thanks a lot.”“Thank you much for your help. It is so useful as I am right now working on the fishes of Ganges. Moreover it is so great that the library provides classic literature on fishes and it was a dream to me [when] I started my taxonomy ten years back. It is marvellous [what] you did for us which are badly in need of old literature. Thanks a lot.”

What an absolutely wonderful site. It is a treasure trove of information. Thank you!

May I compliment you on this splendid service? The Library's invaluable for my work on seasonal

variability of climate and vector-borne disease in British India, 1875-1940.

I really appreciate your work. The Biodiversity Heritage Library is an excellent resource that regularly helps my assistant and I obtain original descriptions for plants .... I feel so privileged to be working in a day in age when such resources are so readily available and easy to obtain.

Looking Forward

In any well-appointed Natural History Library there should be found every book and every edition of every book dealing in the remotest way with the subjects concerned.

Charles Davies Sherborn Epilogue to Index Animalium, March 1922

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