Introducing TL-2: Online Edition

Robin A. EverlyXVIII IBC Melbourne, Australia

Robin A. Everly:: Smithsonian Institution Libraries :: International Botanical Congress :: 25 July 2011

The Beginning

2010 – Signed agreement between Smithsonian Institution Libraries (SIL) and International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT) for permission to digitize and make TL-2 searchable through a web based interface.

Funding to scan and rekey TL-2 text from the Smithsonian’s Atherton Seidell Endowment.

Idea originated from botanical librarians involved in the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) project.

Scope of Work

Approximately 11,500 scanned pages

Average of 3,300 characters per page

Approximately 44,000 author entries

Image files approx. 9 GB in size

Scanned print volumes performed by the Internet Archive.

100% quality control review of scanned pages by SIL staff.

IAPT staff provided machine-readable versions of more recent volumes.

TL-2 will be re-keyed to 99.97% accuracy.

Data will be converted to XML files.

Statement of Work can be found at:

http://www.sil.si.edu/pdf/TL3-Statement-of-Work.pdf

Imaging and File Creation

Project Timeline

January 2011 – Initial scanning of TL-2 volumes.

July 2011 – Contract for text conversion awarded to Unlimited Priorities / Digital Conversion Labs.

November 2011 – Text conversion completed.

Timeline – 2012 and Beyond

January 2012 – TL-2 online, version 1.0 publicly available via SIL website (functionality at the minimum similar to current IDC Publishers product.)

February 2012 and forward – Additional functionality to be added over time.

Full text linking to content within BHL

http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org

Creation of web services on top of TL-2 Online for reuse by other biodiversity and taxonomic projects.

Integration and/or linking with VIAF.

Creation of linked data.

Integration with similar taxonomic tools (specifically Index Animalium) forming a comprehensive collection of taxonomic bibliographic tools, a “TL-3”

Planned Features

Judy Warnement – Harvard Univ. Botany Libraries.

Doug Holland/Chris Freeland – Missouri Botanical Garden.

Susan Fraser/Don Wheeler – New York Botanical Garden.

Larry Dorr – Smithsonian Institution, NMNH, Dept of Botany.

Martin Kalfatovic, Keri Thompson, Suzanne Pilsk, Joel Richard, and Gilbert Borrego – Smithsonian Institution Libraries.

Acknowledgements

Robin A. Everly :: Smithsonian Institution Libraries :: International Botanical Congress :: 25 July 2011