1. World wide access to biodiversity literature The Biodiversity Heritage Library Henning Scholz 1 & Tom Garnett 2 1 Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany 2 Smithsonian Libraries, Washington, USA

2. Charles Darwin et al. 1847 The cultivation of natural science cannot be efficiently carried on without reference to an extensive library.

3. Ten years ago  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

4. Ecosystem of services BHL BHL-Europe BHL-China BHL-Australia BHL-SouthAmerica Arab Language BHL CiteBank EoL Europeana GRIB EDIT CoL VIAF EJT vifabio AnimalBase Tropicos BioStor

5. BHL http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/

6. BHL 2007 SIL, MOBOT, AMNH, Harvard Botany Library, MCZ, MBL/WHOI, Field Museum, NYBG NHM, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew

7. BHL today 87,788 volumes online 32,706,117 pages online (9.2.2011) About 70 Tb data OCR, page level access Bibliographic indexing Taxonomic metadata Metadata re-use Open Access

8. BHL today

10. BHL-Europe http://www.bhl-europe.eu

11. BHL-Europe 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  Existing European repositories of digital biodiversity literature into a multilingual BHL-Europe portal and Europeana  Long-term preservation and sustainability

12. BHL-Europe Partner

13. BHL-Europe results

14. GRIB Aim: Develop bibliographic database (union catalogue with content management and deduplication functionalities).  Global Reference Index to Biodiversity (http://grib.gbv.de)http://grib.gbv.de Collaboration: European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy (EDIT) User: Scientist, taxonomist, librarian

15. Europeana >15 million objects Mona Lisa to Charles Darwin Texts, images, videos, sounds 88,997 BHL-Europe objects Three BHL-Europe partners Non BHL-Europe content

16. BHL-Global

18. Regional Requirements Mass digitisation Contractual obligations ( MacArthur ) Driven by EoL Service for scientists Copyright Technology Improve interoperability Contractual obligations (EC) Driven by Europeana Service for the public Copyright Technology

19. BioSystematics 2011 You are the user… …vivid discussions …future developments …hands on training

20. 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