digital services division & the biodiversity heritage library
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Digital Services Division & The Biodiversity Heritage Library Martin R. Kalfatovic | Science Executive Committee | 12 Jan 2015
A set of services to the research community both within and outside the Smithsonian Institution. Managed by the Smithsonian Libraries, the program assists in capturing the research output of Smithsonian scholars and making it available to Institutional management as well as scientists and historians world-wide.
Smithsonian Research Online
Total Items in Research Bibliography 73,371 • Science Units: 52,093 (71%) • HAC & Other Units: 7,035 (9.5%) • USN Museum Pubs: 14,243 (19%)
Currently, 19,341 items in Digital Repository
Smithsonian Research Online
MCI NASM NMNH NZP SAO SERC STRI0
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Indexed by Google Scholar Includes legacy Smithsonian publications (e.g. US National Museum Publications) Dspace Repository (+ SAO ADS) fulfills White House Open Access mandate
Smithsonian Research Online
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SERIC
NZP
NMNH
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Total Repository Views (July 2014-January 2015)
SRO Data Reuse
Research Altmetrics
Provides additional usage data Shows non-traditional impact of research
Includes data and knowledge bases references, article views, downloads, or mentions in social media and news media
Research Altmetrics
Research Altmetrics
Research Altmetrics
Smithsonian Profiles Addresses an enterprise-wide knowledge management system need Ad hoc cross-Smithsonian team (SIL, OCIO, OSP, OIR, DUSCIS, NMNH, OFI) formed to develope a beta “Smithsonian Profiles” system Smithsonian Profiles will enable users to search key terms and identify relevant staff and researchers quickly and efficiently. It will shine new light on research, scholars, and services making them more discoverable both internally and externally. Testbed is VIVO, open source system in production at large academic universities (Cornell, University of Colorado, Brown, University of Florida, University of Melbourne, Duke, etc.) as well as the EPA and NAL
Smithsonian Profiles Plans with NMNH include how Smithsonian Profiles could assist with PAEC, department webfeeds, NMNH Science report, etc. Plans with OIR include use for tracking global Smithsonian research Plans with OFI include using Smithsonian Profiles to replace SORS database Integration with LDAP, Active Directory, ORCID ID, Researcher IDs
Smithsonian Profiles
The Biodiversity Heritage Library
Created in 2006 with US and UK participants ...
...Initial funding via EOL/MacArthur Foundation in 2007
Scope of biodiversity content
Focus for the BHL …
Technology Libraries Science
BHL is a project that encompasses
BHL "Central" has grown to 23 members and affiliates
And BHL has grown globally with nodes in:
Europe, China, Brasil, Australia, Egypt, Sub-Saharan Africa, Singapore, Mexico
CHAIR VICE-CHAIR SECRETARY
Global BHL Steering Committee
August 2011
Vice Chair
Secretary
Chair
Biodiversity Heritage Library Global Governance
Dr. Elycia Wallis Dr. Jiri Frank Dr. Elycia Wallis Dr. Nancy Gwinn Dr. Jiri Frank Dr. Jiri Frank
How do we get from this …
... To this?
FedScan (Library of Congress)
Boston Public Library
San Francisco (Internet Archive)
NHM London
Princeton, NJ
University of Pretoria
… and local scanning
Digitization Centers Shared by Members
Smithsonian Libraries: Natural History & Pennsy Dr.
45,270,435 pages 155,365 items 90,710 titles 145,088 segments
12 Jan 2014
And growth of content: 2007-2014
Increase agreements with publishers of in copyright materials
► 318 titles ► 133 publishers
December 2014
2007
2014
146,798 visitors | November 2012
Growth of users (2007-2014):
- 3,629,268 visitors - 7,005,292 sessions - 29,164,065 page views - 51% vs 48% new vs. returning
2007
2014
146,798 visitantes | November 2012
Usages for CY 2014
- 890,447 visitors - 1,501,297 sessions - 4,558,099 page views - 58% vs 42% new vs. returning
233 countries Users in 245 Countries
2007 -2014 Visitors from 241 countries
87,594 mobile visits (32% iPad) March 2013 – March 2014
35,231 mobile visits (45% iPad) March 2012 – March 2013
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...But many "visits" are
from other machines
28+ million total visitors| 99K + images (December 2014)
Funder: Institute of Museum and Library Services ($174,724 for US partners) Partners: Center for Biodiversity Informatics, Missouri Botanical Garden, (US); National Centre for Text Mining, University of Manchester, (UK); Big Data Analytics Institute and Social Media Lab, Dalhousie University, (CAN). Also participating: Smithsonian Institutions and Encyclopedia of Life.
Field Book Project
Cataloged: 7,378 Digitized: 529 In BHL: 418 In the Transcription Center: 102 Transcribed: 92
Field Book Project
NMNH Departments: Department of Botany Division of Birds Department of Entomology Division of Fishes Division of Mammals Department of Paleobiology
Smithsonian Libraries Cullman Library
New areas like Biodiversity Library Exhibitions
“Thank you much for your help. It is so useful as I am right now working on the fishes of Ganges. Moreover it is so great that the library provides classic literature on fishes and it was a dream to me [when] I started my taxonomy ten years back. It is marvellous [what] you did for us which are badly in need of old literature. Thanks a lot.”“Thank you much for your help. It is so useful as I am right now working on the fishes of Ganges. Moreover it is so great that the library provides classic literature on fishes and it was a dream to me [when] I started my taxonomy ten years back. It is marvellous [what] you did for us which are badly in need of old literature. Thanks a lot.”
I do admire the whole BHL enterprise, wish I had been born later, or BHL earlier, so that I might have had a more active role in it. Pat LaFollette Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Feedback from users
“Thank you much for your help. It is so useful as I am right now working on the fishes of Ganges. Moreover it is so great that the library provides classic literature on fishes and it was a dream to me [when] I started my taxonomy ten years back. It is marvellous [what] you did for us which are badly in need of old literature. Thanks a lot.”“Thank you much for your help. It is so useful as I am right now working on the fishes of Ganges. Moreover it is so great that the library provides classic literature on fishes and it was a dream to me [when] I started my taxonomy ten years back. It is marvellous [what] you did for us which are badly in need of old literature. Thanks a lot.”
BHL is one of the jewels in the crown of biodiversity informatics. It has delivered a resource that is already of high value to taxonomists, collection managers and naturalists around the world. Donald Hobern GBIF Executive Secretary
Feedback from users
“Thank you much for your help. It is so useful as I am right now working on the fishes of Ganges. Moreover it is so great that the library provides classic literature on fishes and it was a dream to me [when] I started my taxonomy ten years back. It is marvellous [what] you did for us which are badly in need of old literature. Thanks a lot.”“Thank you much for your help. It is so useful as I am right now working on the fishes of Ganges. Moreover it is so great that the library provides classic literature on fishes and it was a dream to me [when] I started my taxonomy ten years back. It is marvellous [what] you did for us which are badly in need of old literature. Thanks a lot.”
BHL is simply a boon and bonanza without parallel. I am the greatest possible fan of BHL and am going to start recognizing it in the Acknowledgments of all the papers I publish that depend largely on archival resources. Storrs Olson Division of Birds, NMNH
Feedback from users
I am thrilled with what I have been able to find re: archaic mammary embryology … and to get it through your program was a huge advantage. Olav T. Oftedal Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Feedback from users
Community / Partnership / Science / Content
Thank you!