The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL-Europe) Towards a global library of life Patrick Grootaert Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences IXth European Congress of Entomology Budapest, August, 2010

History Growing need for access to published biodiversity literature Libraries of European NHM and BG hold majority of this literature Currently available to people who can gain direct access  literature unavailable for wider use by a broad range of potential users (scientists and non-scientists) Recent analysis of demand  users need an online repository (original text content) a multilingual interface a sophisticated search and filtering functionality

History

History BHL - Started 2007 Partners from US + NHM London & BG Kew July > pages online OCR, page level access Indexed by traditional library access points (title, author etc.) & taxonomic name from a service Taxon Finder individual species pages from the Encyclopedia of Life link to pages in the BHL Portal

History BHL - NHM, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew SIL, MOBOT, AMNH, Harvard Botany Library, MCZ, MBL/WHOI, Field Museum, NYBG

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BHL-Europe BHL-Europe: May 2009 – May 2012 Main principles: No digitisation  BHL-Europe is not funded to digitise Best Practice Network  no research and development project  building a solution with existing (state-of-the-art) technologies and bring it onto the market

BHL-Europe Main goals: multilingual access point EUROPEANA & BHL Provide multilingual access point for search and retrieval of biodiversity content through EUROPEANA & BHL general public Facilitate open access to taxonomic literature for a large number of target users including general public long-term preservation Develop operational strategies for long-term preservation and sustainability of data produced by national biodiversity digitisation programmes initiation of scanning initiatives Facilitate and enable initiation of scanning initiatives in EU countries not yet involved in digitisation programmes Improve infrastructure for digital libraries in all EU countries

BHL-Europe 28 Partners: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, DE Natural History Museum, London, UK Narodni muzeum, Prague, CZ European Digital Library Foundation, NL Angewandte Informationstechnik Forschungsgesellschaft mbH, AT ATOS Origin Integration France, FR Freie Universität Berlin (Botanic Garden & Museum), DE Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Stiftung Öffentlichen Rechts, DE Land Oberösterreich (Oberösterreichische Landesmuseen), AT Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna, AT Hungarian Natural History Museum, HU Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw, PL University of Copenhagen (Natural History Museum of Denmark), DK Stichting Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum Naturalis, Leiden, NL

BHL-Europe 28 Partners: National Botanic Garden of Belgium, BE Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, BE Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, BE Bibliothèque nationale de France, FR Museum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris, FR Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Madrid, ES Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, UK Università degli Studi di Firenze (Museo di Storia Naturale), Florence, IT Missouri Botanical Garden, USA Smithsonian Institution, USA Species 2000, UK John Wiley & Sons limited, UK Helsingin yliopisto, Helsinki, FI Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, DE

BHL-Europe partners

BHL-Europe Organisation

BHL-Europe network

BHL-Europe results

GRIB : Global References Index to Biodiversity

BHL-Europe results

BHL-Europe results Open Archive Information System

BHL-Europe results - workplan First review in May 2010 (Vienna) Building the German prototype (October 2010) Fully functional GRIB system (de-dublication of library catalogues, bid list, etc.) together with EDIT- Vital by spring 2011 Over digitised books are available via Europeana by the end of the month (BHL, Naturalis, Biology Centre) 50% of BHL-Europe content will be via Europeana by April 2011

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BHL-Europe questions Dr. Henning Scholz Project coordinator Museum für Naturkunde Invalidenstraße 43 D Berlin Tel.: Fax: BHL- website: