2017 bhl program director's report: 11 years of growth and sustainability

Martin R. Kalfatovic, BHL Program DirectorNational Library Board | Singapore | 17 March 2017

2017 BHL Program Director's Report11 Years of Growth & Sustainability

2016 London

2016 Singapore

In the last monthly update (February) BHL’s top contributors were a mix of old and new faces National Agricultural Library: 52,064 pgs Naturalis Biodiversity Center: 43,608 pgs Smithsonian Libraries: 42,470 pgs American Museum of Natural History Library: 34,664 pgs American Association of Zoo Keepers: 16,050 pgs

Growth of Contributors

51,467,214 Pages197,389 Items116,938 Titles89.9Tb Byte Size

Growth of Collections“Physical” Size of BHL

SustainabilityProgram Director Goals

Recruit and on board new Members and Affiliates Incremental technical changes including full-text searching Explore collaboration with BHL Egypt on technical matters Ensure the success of projects e.g. EABL, Field Book

Project, and Foundations to Actions

SustainabilityProgram Director Goals

Integrated NDSR work into planning for BHL Version 2 Continue to expand content and generate new permissions

for in copyright materials Increase the awareness about BHL and our services,

especially to our primary audiences, scientists, taxonomists and librarians

SustainabilityFinances: Donations

TotalUS$ 17,40050 donors

Secretariat SupportUS$ 13,000

General SupportUS$ 13,000

CASH & IN-KIND CONTRIBUTIONS: CY16

DIRECT STAFF$1,424,792.54

VALUEOF

MEMBER & AFFILIATE CONTRIBUTIONS 2016

OTHER$392,751.28

2015VS

2016

TOTAL IN-KINDCONTRIBUTIONS

2015$1,358,908.20

2016$1,817,543.82

27.26TOTAL MEMBER &

AFFILIATE FTEs WORKING ON BHL

IN 2016

SustainabilityTechnical Team

SustainabilityTechnical Highlights

Working with Dima Mozzherin to incorporate a newly updated GNRD server into BHL. (The GNRD server provides scientific name finding services to BHL.) It is a little too early to say for sure, but it looks like the updated service provides higher quality results. This work is nearly complete.

Initial prototypes of both SOLR and ElasticSearch full-text search installations were created.


The BHL ingest process was updated to recognized and handle Scanning Institution and Rights Holder in the data being brought in from Internet Archive.

Modified the IA harvesting process to ease the inclusion of new contributors, rights holders, and scanning institutions. This should cut down on the number of “UNKNOWN” values that appear in those fields.

Added additional fields to the data harvested from BioStor, including Publisher Name, Publisher Place, OCLC ID, JSTOR ID,and Issue.


Modified the BioStor harvest process to allow changes to Item and Page IDs made in BioStor to be picked up by BHL.

Updated the BioStor harvesting process to read an additional contributor field from the BioStor APIs. This allows BHL to recognize two contributors for an article: 1) the contributor that facilitated the ingest of metadata into BHL (i.e. BioStor), and 2) the institution that actually compiled the metadata.

SustainabilityTechnical Priorities

Full Text Search

Model: Dell PowerEdge Server

OS/Software: ElasticSearch on RedHat Linux

10 core Intel Xeon CPU

128 Gigabytes of RAM About 8 TB disk space

(1.6 TB on high speed SSD) for the Search Index and the OCR Text

Full Text Server Specs

SustainabilitySecretariat Activities

PresentationsMartin R. Kalfatovic

Increasing Access, Promoting Progress: Empowering Global Research through the BHL. Expanding Access to Biodiversity Workshop. Atlanta History Center. Atlanta, GA. 24 January 2017.

The Biodiversity Heritage Library 10 Years and More! TDWG 2016. Centro de Transferencia Tecnológica y Educación Continua (CTEC) San Carlos, Santa Clara, Costa Rica. 7 December 2016.

Increasing Access, Promoting Progress: Empowering Global Research through the BHL. Group of 12 Meeting. Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle. Paris, 2 December 2016.

Botany and the BHL: A Botanical Overview of the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Botany Department Seminar. National Museum of Natural History. Smithsonian Institution. Washington, DC. 15 September 2016.

Enabling Progress in Global Biodiversity Research: The Biodiversity Heritage Library. With Constance Rinaldo. Shanghai International Library Forum 2016. Shanghai, China. 8 July 2016.


PresentationsGrace Costantino

Strategies to Engage: Discovering & Facilitating Engagements around Biodiversity Literature. 38th Annual Society for Scholarly Publishing Conference. Vancouver, British BC, Canada. 2 June 2016.

Free and Open Access to Biodiversity Literature: An Introduction to the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Catholic University’s Institute of Federal Libraries Resources Information Session. Washington, DC. 27 July 2016.

Free and Open Access to Biodiversity Literature: An Introduction to the Biodiversity Heritage Library. MIT Carnegie University of Pretoria Orientation. Washington, DC. 15 September 15 2016.

Literature Resources to Support Food Security Research: An Introduction to the BHL. Scientific Collections International Food Security Symposium. Greenbelt, MD. 19 September 2016.

An Introduction to the Biodiversity Heritage Library. DC Science Librarians Meeting. Washington, DC. 8 November 2016.


PresentationsGrace Costantino

Wait there’s more ...

Presentation: Science as Art: Free Access to Natural History Books and Art in the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Smithsonian Associates: The Beauty of Botanical Illustration Program. Washington, DC. 12 February 2017.

And the 2016 BioBlitz on the National Mall

… And next year we’ll learn about the Earth Optimism Day events (21-23 April 2017 in Washington)


Presentations & MeetingsCarolyn A. Sheffield & Bianca Crowley

Carolyn A. Sheffield

Harnessing biodiversity literature for Natural History collections curation and research--a digital library perspective. With Jirí Frank. SPNHC 2016. Berlin, Germany. 20-25 June 2016.

Bianca Crowley

Library Leaders Forum (Internet Archive) 2016, San Francisco, 26-28 October 2016


Tours and Visits to Washington

National Library Board | May 2016

U of Pretoria | September 2016


Management & LeadershipCarolyn A. Sheffield

Emerging Leadership Development Program

Carolyn graduated from the Smithsonian’s ELDP program in December 2016. The vigorous year-long program is highly selective and it is a reflection on both the candidate and their organization to be selected.

Carolyn with Smithsonian Secretary David Skorton December 2016


Management & LeadershipCarolyn A. Sheffield

Field Notes Project Oversight

Adriana Marroquin as the new Project Manager for the CLIR-funded BHL Field Notes Project. Some of you may recognize her name from work she did a couple of years ago to organize BHL’s Latino Natural History digital exhibition.

Carolyn is the supervisor for the other Secretariat staff as well as Adriana.

Digital Library Federation 2016 Community Capacity Award

Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle

NDSR Residents

Questions

Ichthyologie; ou, Histoire naturelle des poissons : / par Marc Éliéser Bloch.

FIGURE 2Plate: Chaetodon mesoleucus (The Mulatto)Accepted: Chaetodontoplus mesoleucusCommon: Singapore Angelfish, Vermiculated Angelfishhttp://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4787002

Thank You!

@BHLProgDirector

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