Global BHL Progress

Content Providers & Technical ReviewBrussels, Belgium

30 Nov 2011

New Logo!

Global BHL Meeting• Agreed: meeting in 2012 w/ admin & techGovernance policy v.1The goals of the gBHL are:• Digitize and aggregate as much biodiversity literature as funding and copyright law allows through

the member programs and projects.• Maintain repositories for the indexing, storage, preservation and serving of this digital content.• Develop services to make this digital content widely and easily available. The principles of the gBHL are:• Open access. The digital content served by gBHL members is available without cost and can be

reused by other projects and users with appropriate attribution.• Collaboration. Each gBHL member will actively coordinate its activities with other BHL partners to

achieve agreed objectives.• Decentralization. Each gBHL member is self-governing and funded.• Interoperability. Each gBHL member will deploy technologies enabling sharing of digital content

and services with other gBHL members.• Transparency. The processes of the gBHL will be transparent and clear to all members and the

public.• Legality. The gBHL members will operate within their legal frameworks.

https://bhl.wikispaces.com/Second-Global-BHL-Planning-Meeting

Life & Literature14 – 15 Nov, 2011Chicago, IL USA

http://www.lifeandliterature.org

#LifeLit Tweets

Breakout Sessions Common Themes

Maintain

Expand Innovate

Avoid

•Art / Illustrations•Contextualization (BLE)•Articles•Localization of serving•Common name searching

•Mobile•OCR Correction•User engagement with annotations•Gaming•More APIs •Computable data

•More content•Engage users, get feedback

•Closed access•Charging for content•Growing too big, too fast•Losing brand, value

JRS Biodiversity FoundationSub-Saharan Africa Meeting

BHL-Africa• Enthusiasm to cooperate & collaborate• First time some had met each other in person

– “I particularly enjoyed how the organisations & logos became people, with interests & expertise, working together.”

• Next steps:– BHL wiki for communication– Share contact information including Skype– Mendeley group, inviting other librarians & BI professionals

• Prioritization of titles to scan

– F2F at SANBIF in Jan/Feb 2012– Find ways for BHL to integrate into BI platforms & library catalogues in

Africa• BiCYCL• BRAHMS• KE• Specify

BHL-China

“More problems, more solutions, more integrations, more powerful, more global, more localization.” Dr. Xu, IB-CAS

BHL-China• Shared content• 890 volumes into BHL (& thus BHL-Europe), more on the way

http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36482330

BHL-Australia & -US Collaboration

• BHL-Australia scanning in-country• UI harmonization following usability study– Report:

https://bhl.wikispaces.com/2011+Usability+Test

• Refine searching• Page-level annotations• Article-level rekey / Tables of Contents– With data sharing from Rod Page

DOIs

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http://dx.doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.669