1. Biodiversity Heritage Library © 2008 Biodiversity Heritage Librarywww.biodiversitylibrary.org Scientific Disciplines From Discovery to Delivery Cathy Norton Deputy Director BHL IAMSLIC September 16,2008

2. Biodiversity Heritage Library © 2008 Biodiversity Heritage Librarywww.biodiversitylibrary.org This library serves the all of the scientific institutions in Woods Hole and other scientific groups in the area. The Library is facing a new dynamic phase Woods Hole NMFS 1871 MBL 1888 Scientific WHOI 1930 USGS 1960 Community SEA 1971 WHRC 1985

3. Biodiversity Heritage Library © 2008 Biodiversity Heritage Librarywww.biodiversitylibrary.org Biodiversity Informatics Evolving in the Biological Sciences National Geographic News, 05/21/08 Tuatara Libraries ?????

4. Biodiversity Heritage Library © 2008 Biodiversity Heritage Librarywww.biodiversitylibrary.org encyclopedists Nomencaltor Animalia “Seahorse” Conrad Gesner 1570

5. Biodiversity Heritage Library © 2008 Biodiversity Heritage Librarywww.biodiversitylibrary.org encyclopedists Denis Diderot – 1751 Encyclopedie Precursor to Sematic Web Thinking “So great is the power of linkage and order that even the mundane becomes important” DD Encyclopedia… the word signifies unity of knowledge

6. Biodiversity Heritage Library © 2008 Biodiversity Heritage Librarywww.biodiversitylibrary.org Serine Molecule Biodiversity Heritage Library Synthesis Center Field Museum Informatics Marine Biological Laboratory & MOBOT Education & Outreach Smithsonian/Harvard Secretariat Smithsonian

7. Biodiversity Heritage Library © 2008 Biodiversity Heritage Librarywww.biodiversitylibrary.org The Species Sites Group works with contributors and data providers and IP issues Biodiversity Informatics Group is responsible for the software development of tools and open access delivery of species information through a single portal Education and Outreach Group works to insure widespread awareness of the EOL Biodiversity Synthesis Group will facilitate cross disciplinary involvement and will explore integrative topics, including taxonomy, evolution, biogeography, phylogenetics and biodiversity informatics. Scanning and Digitization Group led by the Biodiversity Heritage Library, is a consortium of 10 natural history, botanical and research libraries that will scan for the public commons out of copyright and permissioned works.

8. Biodiversity Heritage Library © 2008 Biodiversity Heritage Librarywww.biodiversitylibrary.org Encyclopedia of Life Major project to create a single Web page for every known species (1.8 million!) Total funding will reach at least $50M EOL needs the literature underpinning in the BHL project BHL now key partner in EOL project Launched on 9 th May, 2007 –First 30,000 pages launched at TED Feb 27th, 2008

9. Biodiversity Heritage Library © 2008 Biodiversity Heritage Librarywww.biodiversitylibrary.org “ The launch of the Encyclopedia of Life will have a profound and creative effect in science… this effort will lay out new directions for research in Every branch of biology: –E.O. Wilson

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11. Biodiversity Heritage Library © 2008 Biodiversity Heritage Librarywww.biodiversitylibrary.org Collaborative Tree of Life distributed semantic Biodiversity Heritage Library ever evolving TED all information Synthesis Center Oh wow! SpeciesBase ClassificationBank Education and Outreach ANTS index MacArthur Foundation taxonomic intelligence modular software communal ownership user defined AvenueA | Razorfish OBIS MBL free visualization images WorkBench sounds phylogeny web 2.0 names- based infrastructure Atlas of Living Australia February 2008 Google Marine Biological Laboratory all species Smithsonian FISHBASE Harvard Field Museum Tree of Life E. O. Wilson aggregation / mashup EDIT ScratchPad widgets MOBOT NHM AMNH NYBotancial Sloan Foundation GBIF llison l NameBank videos National Geographic any classification TDWG/BIS

12. Biodiversity Heritage Library © 2008 Biodiversity Heritage Librarywww.biodiversitylibrary.org Biodiversity Heritage Library Mission: Provide Open Access to Biodiversity Literature Goals: Digitize the core published literature on biodiversity and put on the Web Agree on approaches with the global taxonomic community, rights holders and others

13. Biodiversity Heritage Library © 2008 Biodiversity Heritage Librarywww.biodiversitylibrary.org Museums Field Museum Natural History Museum (London) Smithsonian Institution American Museum of Natural History Botanical Gardens Missouri Botanical Garden New York Botanical Garden Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew University Libraries Botany Libraries, Harvard University Ernst Meyer Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University Research Institute Library Marine Biological Laboratory / Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Library (MBL/WHOI) All Signed MOUs

14. Biodiversity Heritage Library © 2008 Biodiversity Heritage Librarywww.biodiversitylibrary.org Collaborators: Internet Archive International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature Open Content Alliance American Institute of Biological Sciences European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy (EDIT) Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) BioOne Learned Societies Many more under negotiation

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16. Biodiversity Heritage Library © 2008 Biodiversity Heritage Librarywww.biodiversitylibrary.org How to build the BHL enterprise Recognition of the importance of all types of material in all formats Recognition that a single set of rules, a single mechanism, a single type of discovery tool cannot accomplish everything Recognition that entities other than libraries can, want to, and will contribute to the information-finding construct Recognition that all of us are part of the whole, and that it is an interdependent relationship, not the relationship of an all- powerful mother ship Recognition that the way we have made decisions in the past may no longer serve us well

17. Biodiversity Heritage Library © 2008 Biodiversity Heritage Librarywww.biodiversitylibrary.org Boston Scanning Center Regional Scanning Center Books are delivered to scanning center where they are processed. All volumes are on books carts clearly marked with the library’s logo and name. Books are taken off the cart..scanned… returned to cart. On the shipping day it is rewrapped and sent back to MBLWHOI Library.

18. Biodiversity Heritage Library © 2008 Biodiversity Heritage Librarywww.biodiversitylibrary.org Internet Archive Scribe: Boston

19. Biodiversity Heritage Library © 2008 Biodiversity Heritage Librarywww.biodiversitylibrary.org How big is the Biodiversity domain? Over 5.4 million books dating back to 1469 800,000 monographs 40,000 journal titles (12,5000 current) 50% pre-1923

20. Biodiversity Heritage Library © 2008 Biodiversity Heritage Librarywww.biodiversitylibrary.org Classes of Texts Public Domain – pre 1923 Non-profit society journals Post 1923 monographs/journals –Monographs without © renewals –Commercial journals with permission

21. Biodiversity Heritage Library © 2008 Biodiversity Heritage Librarywww.biodiversitylibrary.org Where are we? –7,046 Titles –17,945 volumes –7,431,246 pages –54 journal or serials titles permissions obtained –Provisional agreements with BioOne for rehosting –Working on agreement with JSTOR

22. Biodiversity Heritage Library © 2008 Biodiversity Heritage Librarywww.biodiversitylibrary.org One Year Anniversary MBLWHOI 7354Books >3000Journal volumes >2.99 MillionPages (standard) >5280Foldouts (up to 18” x 24”) 425Average pages per item 5,346Miles Traveled 4700Hours of Staff Time 10¢Cost per page $2Cost per foldout Statistics as of 9/1/08

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26. Biodiversity Heritage Library © 2008 Biodiversity Heritage Librarywww.biodiversitylibrary.org Carolus Linnaeus, “father of modern taxonomy” “Who Knowth not the name Knowth not the subject” Linnaeus, 1737, Critica Botanica n 210. Royal Science Academy of Sweden, portrait

27. Biodiversity Heritage Library © 2008 Biodiversity Heritage Librarywww.biodiversitylibrary.org The challenge for contemporary DIGITAL libraries Goal: Use one name to find the content for all names

28. Biodiversity Heritage Library © 2008 Biodiversity Heritage Librarywww.biodiversitylibrary.org Names – the only universal metadata for Biology Names offer a logical way to search for and index content Names annotate data objects All names annotate all data objects A compilation of all names ever used is the foundation of a universal index for biology or for a semantic web for biology

29. Biodiversity Heritage Library © 2008 Biodiversity Heritage Librarywww.biodiversitylibrary.org Libraries Publishers Museums Federal Agencies Who is affected by these problems?

30. Biodiversity Heritage Library © 2008 Biodiversity Heritage Librarywww.biodiversitylibrary.org Serious challenges in federated environments One organism 4 scientific names 4 maps We want one map

31. Biodiversity Heritage Library © 2008 Biodiversity Heritage Librarywww.biodiversitylibrary.org All names & all Classifications ClassificationBank Alternative names reconciled Similar names disambiguated Exploit hierarchies to browse and search, build a comprehensive classification Improve performance with federated systems Read documents, web sites, databases and taxonomically indexing the content Create a unified portal to information about organisms on the internet Taxonomic intelligence is the inclusion of taxonomic practices, skills and knowledge within informatics services to manage information about organisms

32. Biodiversity Heritage Library © 2008 Biodiversity Heritage Librarywww.biodiversitylibrary.org Taxonomic Intelligence Lexicon of Scientific Names Reconciliation and Disambiguation Hierarchical Inclusion Integration into Information Retrieval Linkage to Other Data Types (e.g., Molecular, Morphological, Phenotype)

33. Biodiversity Heritage Library © 2008 Biodiversity Heritage Librarywww.biodiversitylibrary.org uBioRSS Taxonomically Intelligent RSS Feed Aggregator

34. Biodiversity Heritage Library © 2008 Biodiversity Heritage Librarywww.biodiversitylibrary.org MBL WHOI Library – Woods Hole authors’ publications

35. Biodiversity Heritage Library © 2008 Biodiversity Heritage Librarywww.biodiversitylibrary.org MBL WHOI Library – Woods Hole species publications

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37. Biodiversity Heritage Library © 2008 Biodiversity Heritage Librarywww.biodiversitylibrary.org What Can the BHL Be? –One stop shopping for scientific biodiversity texts. –Digital Preservation of the scholarly record in the field of biodiversity. –A suite of services to facilitate the reuse of the BHL content especially by the EOL –Embedding of textual content in the emerging knowledge ecology. Three sets of players – practicing biologists, libraries, publishers.

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43. Biodiversity Heritage Library © 2008 Biodiversity Heritage Librarywww.biodiversitylibrary.org Acknowledgments Neil Sarkar Gerald Weissmann The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation A.W. Mellon Foundation Alfred P. Sloan Foundation John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Internet Archive BHL & EOL Teams

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