an anatomy of a mass scanning project: the biodiversity heritage library
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An Anatomy of a Mass Scanning Project: The Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin R. Kalfatovic. The Medical Heritage Library Meeting. Rochester, MN. 28 April 2010TRANSCRIPT
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An Anatomy of a Mass Scanning Project
Medical Heritage Library Meeting28 April 2010
Martin R. KalfatovicSmithsonian Institution Libraries
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The Biodiversity Heritage Library
• About BHL• Funding• Usage Statistics• Growth of Content• Outreach & Feedback• New Developments
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American Museum of Natural History
Field MuseumCalifornia Academy of
SciencesMuseum of Comparative
Zoology (Harvard)New York Botanical GardenNatural History Museum
(London)
The Biodiversity Heritage Library
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Smithsonian Institution LibrariesRoyal Botanic Gardens, KewMissouri Botanical GardenAcademy of Natural Sciences
(Philadelphia)Marine Biological
Laboratory/WHOIHarvard Botany Libraries
The Biodiversity Heritage Library
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BHL Global
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BHL Global
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Funding
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ParentOrganizations
Moore Foundation
MacArthurFoundation
IMLS
Funding
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2009
Direct Staff Costs $1,143,326.09
Other Costs $216,194.12
Total $1,359,520.21
Internal Subvention $150,140.00
External Grants received $775,000.00
Funds Received $925,140.00
FTE 17.69
Funding
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2009
SI Libraries
Direct Staff Costs $376,385.14
Other Costs $52,000.00
Total $428,385.14
Internal Subvention $150,000.00
External Grants received $-
Funds Received $150,000.00
FTE 3.75
Funding
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Some Usage Stats
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A Global User Community
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Steadily Increasing Usage
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The Machine is Using Us
Direct Traffic: 16.55%Referring Sites: 22.20%
EOL Wikipedia: Tropicos Smithsonian BioOne Animal Base
Search Engines: 61.15%
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Growth of Content
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BHL Titles: 41,387 Items: 78,872 Pages: 29.5 million
SIL Titles: 4,535 Items: 9,563 Pages: 3.48 million
Growth of Content
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Growth of BHL ContentSIL 03/2009 – 03/2010
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Outreach & Feedback
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• Survey of users now being conducted
• New public “help” wiki launched earlier this year
• Instructional videos for portal use being created
Outreach & Feedback
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“BHL deserves so much credit for all that it has done to benefit the scholarly endeavor in such a short amount of time.”
Outreach & Feedback
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“In turn I would like to compliment the whole BHL team [for] this service, indispensable for taxonomists (and wider biological community).”
Outreach & Feedback
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Outreach & Feedback
2010 ALA Collaboration Award
“Our committee was quite impressed with BHL's noteworthy collaborative effort to fulfill a scholarly need by providing open access to a large corpus of historical materials on biodiversity within the biological, ecological and environmental sciences.”
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“Outstanding! And it is also a great illustration of the power of collaboration to get things done we could not do alone. My congratulations to you and all your BHL colleagues.”- Sec. Wayne Clough
Outreach & Feedback
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New Developments
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CiteBank for article-level delivery in development Open API and web services allow user to create applications on top of BHL
New Developments
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Team BHL
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Team BHLA Social Experiment
• Distributed scanning• Distributed portal editing• Distributed user services
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An Anatomy of a Mass Scanning Project
Medical Heritage Library Meeting28 April 2010
Martin R. KalfatovicSmithsonian Institution Libraries
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